Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs

In a major blow to America's seafood industry, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has, for the first time in state history, canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers. While restaurant menus will suffer, scientists worry what the sudden population plunge means for the health of the Arctic ecosystem.

Freshly caught snow crabs sit in containers on a fishing boat at Mikuni Fishing Port in Mikuni, Fukui Prefecture, Japan, on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015."Did they run up north to get that colder water?" asked Gabriel Prout, whose Kodiak Island fishing business relies heavily on the snow crab population.

"Environmental conditions are changing rapidly," Daly said."We've seen warm conditions in the Bering Sea the last couple of years, and we're seeing a response in a cold adapted species, so it's pretty obvious this is connected. It is a canary in a coal mine for other species that need cold water."

They are over fished

Climate change

Holy crap! What happens to Deadliest Catch?

The elitists of the world are going to starve the population into decline for the sake of 'climate change' as they use as an excuse for doing so, just watch, any forms of self-sustainment will be banned soon, like hunting, gardening or foraging

So no crab?

GLOBAL WARMING!!!!! 🥴🥴🥴

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