Living off the land means eating what you can catch — and today, it’s a giant crab. In this video, I show the full catch-and-cook process, all done on a remote island with no supplies and no backup.

The three-day event begins today when the tent opens at 11 a.m. That’s the same time crab dinners will start being served, and the beer and wine gardens at City Pier and in the big tent open as well.

Dungeness crab fishing is back on for a full fall season that began Wednesday and extends through Nov. 30, although Alaska Department of Fish and Game harvest projections show that Southeast Alaska ...