Jean-Erick Pasquier / Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesFor the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea.after a catastrophic population crash of the sizable crustaceans. The red king crab season was canceled for the second year in a row, making it a two-pronged disaster for Alaska’s economy and for those whose livelihoods rely on crab.
that spiked in 2019. Miranda Westphal, an area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said the warmer waters likely contributed to young crabs’ starvation and the stock’s decline.Officials hope a halt to this year’s crab harvest will boost both species. At this point, little more can be done.
The snow crab collapse came as a surprise. Each season, commercial trawlers complete surveys that estimate species abundance and assess stock. The National Marine Fisheries Service and Alaska Department of Fish and Game co-manage the crab fisheries.
But tell me again that climate change isn't real. Please.
This is collapse.
Oh no we must then as it's not right to demolish species or is it known how much global warming is playing into it as well
Fabulous
We need to start protecting this planet we live on or it won't support us. Pretty simple stuff. Republicans think we can just continue to destroy the ecosystem in the name of jobs and money forever.
how many times would you report this
Chinese trawlers got em
You are showing a picture of a king crab.
The article headline is silly. Canceling the snow crab season does not threaten a key economic driver, it’s the population crash that threatens it. Cancelling it is the only hope of saving it.
That's a king crab in the picture...
Everyone should watch Soylent Green. The food supply cannot keep up with an overpopulated world and climate crisis destroying food producing capabilites.
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This is horrible news.
Oh my gosh ! Did That deeper tide hurricane in Alaska destroy the crop from the ocean 🌊?
Good.
good
Overfishing for years without letting the population rekindle will do that.
It is a good manner to save the planet .
How long is going to take before the Republicans and Democrats to blame each other for it
I lived on the Bering Sea for 40 years. You ignore the obvious question: If the water got warmer, why didn't the crab just move north? Then answer this one: What happened to the huge crab fishery off Kodiak that crashed in the '70s and never came back? Same story: Overfishing.
The beginning of the end.
Russia and China.
Kenya's next presidential race is William Ruto vs Dan Ojowa
The extinction of the snow crab is due to the insatiable human greed
Moved north & aren’t lookin’ back.
We shall reap the whirlwind!!! 🌬🌪🌀🌊☣🔥
Why did joel bidoni kill the crab dan trampo had crab
CMargaronis Climate collapse and the resurgence of fascism should be the lead stories on every newscast. ABC CBSNews cnn
Temps peak in 2019, but 3 years later it's the cause of less crab 🤡🤡🤡 ClimateChangeHoax
CHY-NAH eat all 🦀
Gee, I wonder why? 🌎🔥
It's a shell game
That’s not a snow crab
They went somewhere else like....fuk humans lol
wow, thats not a good sign for our waters oceans
It doesn't help that the Chinese fish in our waters depleting the fish source.
Could the cause be global warming
🙏go out to the family s affected by this cancellation🙏
Shitty death 😱
Sad!
Big oil companies buying our congress to vote against all efforts to address climate change have put us into playing defense to the changes, while we squandered the chance to get ahead of it. Stop voting for congresspeople that support big oil policies. This is on us
Damn kids and their damn cancel culture...😋
Feel bad for the people that earn a living from this. It's what they do and is there livelihood. Also can't over fish something with numbers dropping faster then it produces.
Meh. I keep kosher and don’t eat them anyway. But will this effect Deadliest Catch? That’s what I care about.
moleek22 No need to be cruel to these animals.
Climate change and over fishing. I don’t blame the fishermen, they work hard to provide for their families and food for us all.
TV’s Deadliest Catch has always been a spectacle of consumption.
occupytheport And poof, an entire industry gone just like that. Climate change doesn't respect our opinions of it and has no plans to slow down because of any interpretation of scripture. Our Greed has sowed for generations and the harvest is upon us.
Drill Baby Drill
but climate change doesn't exist. SMH
Alaska is Putin’s next goal.
Deadliest Catch in ruins
Good thing many of the AYCE buffets were shut down in the last 2.5 years, or they would probably be completely extinct by now. I am excited to hear about how this is also Biden's fault. 🤔
Costco already hooked me up.
But Exxon continues to make record profits and that’s all we can really ask for
Man, Biden is even messing with crabs
Over exploitation, greed and pollution kills the golden goose...
Delayed… it happens.
Climate change is real
Thanks Joe!😆
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