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  • Alaska Snow Crab Harvest Cut By 88% After Population Crash In Bering Sea

    10/11/2021 7:06:09 PM PDT · by blam · 26 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 10-11-2021
    Higher temperatures in the Bering Sea, a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean, could be responsible for one of the lowest levels set in snow crab harvest in more than four decades, according to the Seattle Times. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has set the 2021-22 catch limit of snow crab to 5.6 million pounds –down 88% from last season. Scientists who study snow crabs attempt to understand what happened to the crabs, native to shelf depths in the North Pacific Ocean. They discovered that sea bottom warmed, pushing the crabs farther to the northwest and deeper...