A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. The crustacean was snagged by a carnivorous g iant green anemone at the Seal Rock ...

The 2022-23 Bering Sea snow crab harvest was canceled because of low stocks. This year's surveys show continued declines, putting harvest prospects in doubt. (Photo by Yereth Rosen / Alaska Beacon) ...

The eastern Bering Sea’s snow crab population crashed by 80% from 2018 to 2022, prompting the first-ever harvest closure last year – a shutdown extended in October by the Alaska Department of ...

Crabs have a habit of evolving to live away from the ocean. The crustaceans have clambered out of the sea and made homes in land-based habitats between seven and 17 different times since they ...

The first-ever cancellation of Alaska’s Bering Sea snow crab harvest was unprecedented and a shock to the state’s fishing industry and the communities dependent on it. Unfortunately for that ...

From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, with the population plummeting to record lows in 2021.

More than 10 billion Bering Sea snow crabs disappeared in Alaska between the years 2018 and 2022, devastating a commercial fishing industry worth $200 million just last year.

The cancellation of crab season this year and the uncertain future of the Bering Sea's snow crabs could have dramatic implications for the industry, which garnered some $280 million in 2016 ...

The study also showed that during their evolution, crabs appear to have adapted to a more terrestrial lifestyle as many as 17 times, either by shifting from the ocean to the intertidal zone or ...

For Bering Sea snow crab, which in 2021 dwindled to the lowest abundance of adults observed in the 50-year record, the crash took multiple steps. The low abundance in 2021 followed what was a ...