I've grown up watching my dad fish out on the Bering Sea. He's been fishing out there for over 45 years. I went off to university, got a degree, but found myself called back to the sea.

So when a group of Bering Sea fishermen recently heard they’d be getting paid less than they hoped for cod this winter season, they figured they couldn’t afford to just sit by.

The Bering Sea fishing grounds are usually covered in sea ice in the winter. But there wasn’t much ice, and they fished further north than usual. Finding snow crabs was still difficult.

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population triggered two consecuctive years of closure, starting in 2022.

The F/V Northwestern, a 125-foot fishing vessel, was crafted in 1977 at Marco Shipyard in Seattle, WA.Built with the rugged King and Tanner crab fisheries of Alaska’s Bering Sea in mind, it ...

The race is on for red king crab when Deadliest Catch returns for Season 21 on August 1. The popular Discovery Channel series once again hits the rough waters of the Bering Sea as it follows crews ...

The Bering sea, near the chain of the Aleutian Islands, is one of the most intense patches of ocean on Earth. ... Fishing and crabbing turns out to be a lot like photography.

Lighter nets, streamlined trawl doors, and smarter rigging choices are helping trawl captains burn less fuel, spend less time ...

Deadliest Catch returns with Season 21 on August 1, bringing a “gold rush-style” crab fishing race to Adak Island.