My initial entry onto the FV Pinnacle was ... the dock and the boat. Then, crew member Dan Jacobson grabbed onto me and helped me aboard. I was joining the crew of this crab boat for a harvest ...

Big hauls on the Pinnacle put him in a strong position in 2005, when a major harvest reform ended the race for the crab. This was called “rationalization,” and it vested boat owners and ...

A crab boat that sank in the Bering Sea last winter ... The strains of commercial fishing are familiar to Daher Jorge. He's captain of the F/V Polar Sea, which was fishing for crab in the same ...

captain of the F/V Exito, said yesterday that the way the crabbing season is executed is "just so stupid." Toomey lost a crew member in the king crab season two years ago. He said crab boat owners ...

That’s what happened to one crab boat, and others in the Dutch Harbor fleet know all too well the dangers that face them every time they leave port. The F/V Destination was lost in open waters.

SEATTLE — The FV Destination went down Feb. 11 amid tough ... as the Coast Guard began two weeks of hearings into the crab-boat sinking that killed six crew. Such conditions generate freezing ...

The crab pots aboard the boats are also expensive. King crab traps can sell for about $1,250 each. The F/V Time Bandit sold for quite a lot of money. The vessel, introduced in Deadliest Catch ...

Federal fisheries authorities suspended a program to buy out more than two dozen crab boat owners yesterday after ... co-owner of the F/V Exito. Toomey and his partner, Quinn Ferguson, were ...

The Coast Guard in Alaska suspended its search Wednesday evening for five missing crew members who were on a crab fishing vessel that sank off Sutwik Island. The Scandies Rose sank at about 10 p.m ...

The Southern Wind is a ginormous boat (though not as big as the Wizard we learned) that has made a huge splash in Dutch Harbor with attitude and a go-getter work ethic. The F/V Southern Wind may ...

My initial entry onto the FV ... boat. Then crew member Dan Jacobson grabbed onto me and helped me aboard. Anchorage Daily News photojournalist Loren Holmes and I were joining the crew of this ...