Deadliest Catch season finale features arctic hurricane
The crabbing fleet in Deadliest Catch, Discovery Channel’s popular crab fishing reality show will be racing to finish the season before an arctic hurricane hits
Alaska’s fisheries at risk due to oceans acidification
Red king crab and tanner crab grow more slowly in more acidic water
Southeast Alaska sees record dungeness crab season
Total catch this year is pegged at nearly 6.5 million pounds
Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers back Begich in run for re-election
Non-profit trade group endorses US Senator Mark Begich in his campaign for re-election to the United States Senate
Russian researchers advise near doubling in Kamchatka king crab TAC
Scientists at Tinro Center have increased advice to 9.9 metric tons in Kamchatka region, which resumed commercial fishing last year for the first time since 2005
US senators call for stricter labeling of imported crab meat
Virginia lawmakers and Senator Mikulski have called for the Obama administration to step up enforcement on processors that are labeling imported crab meat as a product of the Chesapeake Bay
Seafood Watch downgrades California dungeness crab
Downgrade comes as part of a larger review of West Coast dungeness crab fisheries
Argentina takes bankrupt Yaganes’ fishing permits away
Licenses will be withdrawn, since the company laid off all workers from its plant in the province of Santa Cruz
US snow crab imports off 37% in first five months
Buyers continuing to hold back as pricing settles out sooner than normal and even edges up on some sizes
Bankrupt Yaganes lays off all plant workers
Staff from Argentinian fisging group have reportedly decided to work at Conarpesa