The Bering Sea tanner crab season, the only one that was open this season after the closure of the snow crab and king crab fisheries, wrapped up at the end of March with only 17 boats fishing.
There’s going to be a Tanner crab season in the Eastern Aleutians for the first time in five years, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. And while that’s great news for the fishery, only one section of the district will open Makushin/Skan Bay, on the western side of Unalaska Island. The other two sections Unalaska/Kalekta Bay and Akutan will remain closed.
The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared from the cold, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea in