Norton Sound, part of the Northern Bering Sea, is seen from the outskirts of Nome on Sept. 30, 2020. Record-low winter ice in 2018, followed by near-record low ice in 2019, shocked the Northern ...

For Bering Sea crabber Gretar Gudmundsson, December is a month for preparing his two boats for the winter harvest season. But not this year. For the first time, the winter snow crab season has ...

Over the span of just three years, over 10 billion Bering Sea snow crab vanished from Alaska's waters. Scientists are still working to find out why.

After an unprecedented two-year closure, there are enough snow crab to support a ‘conservative’ harvest, while the allowable harvest of red king crab has increased a bit.

A vessel operating in the Bering Sea experienced a serious incident, prompting an emergency response. Officials are now investigating the cause and reviewing safety protocols.

By the end of the century, almost the entire Bering and Chukchi sea region would be too warm for them to live on the seafloor there, the study found.

About 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea between 2018 and 2021. Now we know the sad reason why.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to crab fisherman Gabriel Prout about the crash of the Bering Sea snow crab population, the cancellation of the crabbing season, and its financial impact.

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In October, news broke that scientists were estimating the “disappearance” of up to one billion wild crabs from the usually steady supply in the Bering Sea. This represents a 90 percent drop ...