“wonder what country took them”
Probably Russia as the Bering sea is partly Russian waters.
Yup.
The Russian Federation (Russia) is the world’s third largest producer of wild-caught fisheries.
1 Its national waters is also one of the world’s largest, containing waters in the Arctic and North Pacific Ocean — including one of the most productive fishing grounds in the world, the Bering Sea.
2 Previous research has identified the Russian fishing sector as high-risk for illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, 3 labour exploitation and modern slavery. 4
Russia has some elements of a fisheries governance system, yet it has demonstrated limited progress towards restoring fish stocks. Major gaps remain in relation to controlling the risk of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and the provision of harmful subsidies. Nearly half of Russia’s assessed fish stocks are below sustainable levels of abundance and are considered overfished.
Additionally, 41 per cent of the total catch taken in Russian waters comes from stocks that are unassessed and of unknown sustainability. Russia must work to strengthen management, including actively working to recover overfished stocks and increase knowledge of unassessed stocks to advance towards SDG target 14.4.
https://www.minderoo.org/global-fishing-index/results/country-reports/rus/
Agree, on deadliest catch you see the american crabbers chasing out the russian boats from american waters.
tht is why the crabing fleet will go as close to russian waters as they can to fish for crab. its a long ways from they port of dutch harbor