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 ...

A Kodiak commercial fisherman was sentenced to one year in federal prison last week for orchestrating an illegal scheme to transport and sell thousands of pounds of live crab from Alaska to Washington ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Law enforcement officers examine a load of Alaska crab, much of it infested with Bitter Crab Syndrome, after it arrived in ...

Three fishermen are facing federal charges after being accused of illegally transporting more than 7,000 pounds of crab harvested in Southeast Alaska to Seattle in hopes of getting better prices there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snow crab, at top, is displayed with a bairdi tanner crab, at bottom, in this undated photo. The crab species are related, but ...

Dan Veerhusen in Sand Point last summer, preparing the Taurus for the herring season. Captain Dan Veerhusen and Jan, his wife, run the Taurus, one of the few remaining boats that still fish herring in ...

Last week, Undercurrent News reported live from the 2024 Groundfish Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark. Although members of the media are not permitted to attend the event, Undercurrent's team brought ...

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 ...