EDMONDS — When a seafood processing plant in Alaska shut down in the middle of crabbing season, fishermen found themselves in a pinch. Under the state’s quota system, harvesters can only catch a set ...

Trident Seafoods’ plant in Kodiak features a retired boat as a major part of its facility, right next to the ferry dock. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Trident Seafoods, one of the biggest seafood processors in ...

KODIAK, Alaska — A quiet early October day on the bay in Kodiak, Alaska looks idyllic, but it's a problem for local fishermen. Early fall is usually when crabbers are frantically preparing for a long ...

For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season earlier this week ...

Clusters of snow crab legs are displayed on Jan. 13, 2023, at the seafood counter at a midtown Anchorage grocery store. The product was identified as previously frozen. The 2022-23 Bering Sea snow ...

After two years of closures to crab fisheries in the Bering Sea, Alaskan fishers are struggling with the economic effects and concerned about what potential closures this season will have on their ...

Photographs document work completed by members of the Alaska King Crab Investigation, in which Waldo Schmitt took part. There are no descriptions on the reverse. Images show employees at canneries and ...