King Crab Season 2024 Usa. There are a lot of questions surrounding alaska’s lucrative red king crab fishery. September 24, 2024 — alaska fishermen are waiting for final word on whether there will be a red king crab season in bristol bay this fall.
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. For the 2024 season, norton sound was the only fishery in the country open for commercial red king crab harvesting.