Alaska cancels snow crab season, threatening key economic driver

NBC News ^

[bigdaddy45]

For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season earlier this week 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.

“It’s going to be life-changing, if not career-ending, for people,” said Dean Gribble Sr., a 63-year-old crab boat captain who has fished for “opies” — snow crab — since the late 1970s. “A lot of these guys with families and kids, there’s no option other than getting out. That’s where the hammer is going to fall — on the crew.”

[bigdaddy45]

Sell your shares in Red Lobster

[PGR88]

maybe the crabs just moved to a place the State Fish & Game aren’t monitoring.

[outofsalt]

Biden blames Putin.

[dfwgator]

Murkowski’s fault.

[stars & stripes forever]

Another food source cancelled by the government.

[ealgeone]

Blame on climate change in 3, 2, 1.

[Daffynition]

[BigEdLB]

CANCEL CRABS!

I approve this message....

[mad_as_he$$]

It’s OK Sig is fishing for troll crabs in Norway.

[bigdaddy45]

Are you suggesting this is a hoax perpetrated by the State of Alaska to hurt Alaska citizens?

[citizen]

Let me guess.....caused by climate change??

[SJackson]

Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

[mmichaels1970]

I used to be a crab fisherman up on the Bering many years ago. Cancelling "Opie" season has got to be awful.

Cancelling Kings for two years takes away the fisherman's "big money". Cancelling Opies takes away their "steady money". We also had a brief Bairdi season that was a bit in the middle. Wonder how or if they have seasons for them. That sucks.

As an aside, I noticed that in a story about "Snow Crab" the first photo NBC features is of a King Crab. lol...NBC

[mmichaels1970]

Let me guess.....caused by climate change??

That's NBC's point at least. I'm sure they were quite happy to publish this article.

[llevrok]

Ronson lighter fluid works too.

[stars & stripes forever]

I hope not.

[LIConFem]

"Another food source cancelled by the government."

Bingo!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"Learn to code."   /sarc

[dsrtsage]

“ Let me guess.....caused by climate change??”

Since water has an extremely low specific heat, negligible thermal capacity and inertia, temperature swings in the deep ocean can wildly swing by as much as one hundredth of a degree over decades. Especially in high latitudes that have a low angle of incidence in relation to the sun reflecting most energy to space. Animal life is simply not resilient enough to survive such pressures from wildly oscillating conditions

[TexasFreeper2009]

probably a disease, but I am 100% sure it’s not global warming!!!!