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While the red king crab have been off limits for two years, the snow crab season was also canceled last year. State fishery officials also decided to close the snow crab season for a second year ...
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The red king crab fishery was closed; the snow crab fishery cut to a tenth of the previous year's take. ... Alaska fishers fear another bleak season as crab populations dwindle in warming waters ...
As a result, the current season is very short and in the 2010 season, only 24,000,000 pounds (11,000,000 kg) of red king crab were landed. [3] Alaskan crab fishing is very dangerous, and the fatality rate among the fishermen is about 80 times the fatality rate of the average worker.
The red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus), also called Kamchatka crab or Alaskan king crab, is a species of king crab native to cold waters in the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas, but also introduced to the Barents Sea. It grows to a leg span of 1.8 m (5.9 ft), and is heavily targeted by fisheries.
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Conducted an at-sea boarding of the F/V Time Bandit for spot inspection of safety gear at the start of 2013 King Crab season; identified on radio transmissions only as "Cutter 751". At the end of the 2013 King Crab season, they also assisted in the rescue of the Alaska Mist crew and were more prominently identified in footage and radio ...
For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the Bering Sea after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs had mysteriously ...