In this article, we will address all of the differences between snow crab vs. Dungeness crab, including their physical appearances and preferred habitat. We will also address their behavioral ...

Between 2018 and 2021, approximately 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the frigid waters of the eastern Bering Sea off the Alaskan coast, causing the snow crab population to plunge to record ...

Snow crabs in a fish market. (Tessa57/ iStock/ Getty Images Plus) “Snow crab is by far the most abundant of all the Bering Sea crab species that is caught commercially,” Daly explained.

When scientists realized that nearly 10 billion snow crabs had gone missing from Bering Sea between 2018 to 2021, they weren’t sure where they could have gone. After searching for a potentially ...

Billions of snow crabs appear to have been wiped out, but scientists insist the cause is not just overfishing and have warned people about the impacts of climate change.

The snow crab stock looked promising in recent years, sparking hope amid the steep decade-long decline of Alaskan king crab. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game also canceled the season for Bristol ...

Toad crab, a cousin of the larger snow crab, is fished commercially in Newfoundland and Labrador. (DFO) With 2,322 licensed inshore harvesters hauling in 26,400 tonnes of coveted crustaceans last ...

Snow crabs are the biggest crab industry in Alaska and, while still a splurge (in a normal year around $25 per pound), they tend to be much less expensive than kings.

What makes this especially interesting is that Tanner crabs are marketed and consumed in the United States as “snow crab.” (In Canada, the same term refers to another, related species.) ...

Eighty per cent of the snow crab in the province's waters are now smaller than fishable size, and new biological research from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans says fishing pressure on the ...

Researchers find a huge influx of snow crabs in areas with dumped radioactive waste in the Kara Sea, in Arctic Russia. The Soviet Union during the 1960s and 70s dumped several hundred containers ...