Nine crew members of a commercial crab boat were hoisted to safety after the boat named the Arctic Sea grounded on an Alaska island.

Stormy weather in the Bering Sea on Friday was keeping response crews from getting to a 134-foot crab boat that ran aground ...

After a two-year hiatus forced by low stocks, the Bering Sea snow crab harvest is back on. The decision to reopen the harvest, announced on Oct. 4 by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, is based ...

Nine people were rescued Monday from a commercial fishing vessel that ran aground on St. George Island and began taking on water in rough weather, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The fishing vessel Arctic ...

Residents say the rescue underscores the risks fishermen face in the Bering Sea and the importance of having help nearby.

A decision by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to recertify the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) and Gulf of Alaska ...

Tumultuous waves and horrendous weather can’t stop crab fishermen. They’re tough and determined. But tedious bickering and hours-long bargaining in Washington, D.C. can shut down an entire industry, ...

ANACORTES, Wash. (AP) – Few professions are as deadly as commercial fishing on the Bering Sea. Crews face rogue waves and frigid gales that toss around heavy machines and cause vessels to pitch, yaw ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 triggered the first ever closure of the fishery in ...