Alaskan Crab Season 2024. In october 2022, the bering sea snow crab season was canceled for the first time in u.s. This year’s quota for alaska’s bristol bay commercial red king crab season was smaller than usual, but fishermen are reaping the reward of high demand in the lead.
The southeast section of kodiak’s tanner crab fishery will close at 6 p.m. The snow crab crisis in alaska first began in early 2022, after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs disappeared — a 90% plunge in the population.