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As “Deadliest Catch” returns for its 18th season, here’s what you need to know about the fishermen who risk salty danger so you can eat crab.

Being a Chignik fisherman, Ryan Yovino had walked the beach in Kujulik Bay many times before, mostly finding glass bulbs and fishing nets. This time was different.

Expert testimony on deadly Scandies Rose sinking in Gulf of Alaska forces new look at safety rules for crab boats Published February 25 This undated photo shows the Scandies Rose vessel in Seattle. The 130-foot crab fishing boat from Dutch Harbor sank on New Year's Eve 2019. Two crew members were rescued while five others died. (Mike Fancher/The Seattle Times via AP) Share on Facebook Print article Three Washington state naval architects this week laid out a damning critique of flaws in a federal rule that guides the loading of crab boats amid dangerous, icy conditions off Alaska. Their...

Three Washington naval architects with deep experience in the North Pacific fishing industry testified this week about serious flaws in a federal regulation that guides crucial stability calculations for ice buildup on the fleet of more than 60 Bering Sea crab boats. This information has prompted the Coast Guard to reexamine the rule. The naval architects say the Coast Guard regulation underestimates how much ice can build up on a boat during chill bouts of weather, fails to take into account that it may form unevenly, and also ignores the potential for dense ice within the webbed interior of...

Print article SEATTLE — Through the buzz of airwave static, a voice can be heard giving coordinates in the Gulf of Alaska. Then four chilling words: “We are rolling over.” This nighttime Dec. 31, 2019, mayday transmission from the Scandies Rose, a Washington-managed crab boat, was played Monday morning as the Coast Guard launched two weeks of public hearings to investigate the sinking that took the lives of five of the seven crew. The Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation is the highest level of inquiry into accidents, and the schedule includes testimony from the vessel’s co-ow...