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Alaska's snow crab season canceled for second year in a row as population fails to rebound (www.cbsnews.com)
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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Fishermen are probably so fucking pissed with the woke authorities telling them there are no crabs. You can’t eat all the crabs, isn’t the ocean endless or some shit?

[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Fishermen might not have PhDs but they're not idiots. The snow crab population didn't just vanish over night, it's been falling year by year. Not to mention there are size limitations to legally harvesting snow crabs to keep the population sustainable, and being a fisherman necessitates a minimum degree of awareness of crab sustainability whether it's for legal or practical reasons.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It did vanish overnight!!! Go read up on how fast they disappeared. Yes numbers have been declining but we hit a catastrophic temp event that killed millions of crab.

They starved. It doesn't take long for a crab to starve.

[–] Rachelhazideas@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It's worse than that. The snow crab population is close to 10% of what it was in 2009. The point is, this isn't the first time there was a major decline in the snow crab population. It's been dramatically but consistently plummeting over the last decade.

The crab population only 'halved' in 2019 because of a small resurgence in the population in 2018. In reality, the crab population is back on its usual course of being completely screwed by climate change.

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