ANCHORAGE — In the midst of a spreading oil spill from a wrecked freighter, hundreds of crab fishermen ventured into the Bering Sea this weekend, undaunted by concerns that their catches could be ...

A greenhorn photo-documents the lives of crabbers on Alaska’s remote Saint Paul Island during a winter week on a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea. It took just 20 minutes for my stomach to flip.

With the regulated catch quotas of contemporary fisheries, design versatility for a fishing boat can be important. A new 19.8 x 7.3-m (65 x 24-ft.) combination crab trap and groundfish trawler ...

A trial of innovative crab fishing gear designed to reduce whale entanglements is being hailed as a resounding success that should advance widespread use of the new technology off the California coast ...

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The Dungeness crab season officially opens today in much of California, but Bay Area crab lovers probably will have to wait at least a day to buy the tasty crustaceans because commercial fishermen and ...