For the first time ever, the Bering Sea snow crab fishery will not open for the upcoming season. The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery will also be closed this year — for a second year in a row.
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Crowning the champion of chonk: Historic heavyweight matches up with rotund rookie in Fat Bear finals
By 5 p.m. today we will have a 2022 Fat Bear Champion — but there can only be one.
Net-fish & Chill: 901 is taking the Fat Bear Week bracket by storm
435 Holly and 747 Bear Force One were fat neck and neck all day long.
In today’s Fat Bear Week matchups, the story of a mother’s loss and surprising embrace of an abandoned cub
Two new heavyweights enter the bracket today, and they’re two of the biggest living legends of Brooks River.
Today’s Fat Bear Week matchups include a Divot, a diva and a debonair fighter
The plot thickens today as some of the biggest booties of Brooks Falls come out to play.
Bristol Bay’s sockeye runs are breaking records, but the fishery’s growth has left many locals behind
Decades of research shows that rural and Alaska Native fishermen face significant economic and cultural barriers to commercial fishing.