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Alaska kept the Bering Sea snow crab fishery closed for the 2022-23 season after survey numbers fell below the threshold to open it, the first closure in the fishery's history, and shut Bristol Bay red king crab for a second straight year.

The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery reopened at noon on 15 October 2023 with a 2.15-million-pound catch limit after two years shut, while Bering Sea snow crab stayed closed for a second season.

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened at noon on 15 October 2024 with a 4.72-million-pound catch limit, its first season since the stock collapsed and the fishery was shut in 2022.

Alaska nearly doubled the Bering Sea snow crab catch limit to 9.3 million pounds for the season opening 15 October 2025, adding 1 million pounds aimed at an unprecedented abundance of snow-Tanner hybrid crab.

Oregon opened its commercial Dungeness crab season on 16 December 2025 from Cape Falcon to the California border, 15 days after its 1 December target, while the north coast waited for Washington crab to fill out.

Alaska's Bering Sea snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab fisheries are due to open at noon on 15 October 2026, with catch limits set in early October after the summer trawl survey.

Oregon's ocean commercial Dungeness crab season is targeted to open on 1 December 2026, subject to pre-season meat-fill and biotoxin tests and to opening in step with Washington and California.