Billions of Snow Crabs Gone from Alaska Waters

[seascene]

Today on CNN

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the waters around Alaska. Scientists say overfishing is not the cause | CNN

The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared from the cold, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea in recent years.

www.cnn.com

 

[SpringVelocity]

Uh oh.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Yes while the bering sea warming has been amazing for bristol bay salmon its been terrible for crab and cod.

 

[terrin]

From the Article "Snow crabs are cold-water species and found overwhelmingly in areas where water temperatures are below 2 degrees Celsius". It would be interesting if they actually shared the data asto how much warmer the bottom of the Bering Sea has been in each of the last couple of years compared to previous years.

 

[cuttlefish]

From the Article "Snow crabs are cold-water species and found overwhelmingly in areas where water temperatures are below 2 degrees Celsius". It would be interesting if they actually shared the data asto how much warmer the bottom of the Bering Sea has been in each of the last couple of years compared to previous years.

Does this help?

On the variability of the Bering Sea Cold Pool and implications for the biophysical environment

The Bering Sea experiences a seasonal sea ice cover, which is important to the biophysical environment found there. A pool of cold bottom water (<2°C) is formed on the shelf each winter as a result of cooling and vertical mixing due to brine rejection during the predominately local sea ice...

journals.plos.org

 

[agentaqua]

cue the inevitable PR anti-narrative response from some petroleum engineer whom gets paid from the front groups of coal and oil multinationals and runs a blog that the deniers flock to stating that the crabs ran away from Greta

 

[Haymaker]

Today on CNN

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the waters around Alaska. Scientists say overfishing is not the cause | CNN

The Alaska snow crab harvest has been canceled for the first time ever after billions of the crustaceans have disappeared from the cold, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea in recent years.

www.cnn.com

Hard to say if the testing was adequate or just another botched government effort, designed for political or woke propaganda.

 

[Whole in the Water]

Hard to say that it isn't good testing you mean. Have you checked it out? Have you compared to previous testing done that proved to be accurate? If you have credible factual information to say that the testing was inadequate then show it.

 

[agentaqua]

Hard to say that it isn't good testing you mean. Have you checked it out? Have you compared to previous testing done that proved to be accurate? If you have credible factual information to say that the testing was inadequate then show it.

"Woke" crabs, WitW. Apparently new scientific evidence from the denier camp shows Greta can put crabs asleep and that's why they aren't showing up in the traps of the very awake crab fishers.

 

[OldBlackDog]

https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4_26_21_BBRKC_IQA_complaint.pdf

 

[terrin]

https://peer.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/4_26_21_BBRKC_IQA_complaint.pdf

M

Very interesting document regarding systemic overfishing of King Crabs in Bristol Bay.Seems this is not the first time. Perhaps history is repeating itself but this time a convenient culprit, Global Warming, can take the blame.

 

[agentaqua]

Very interesting document regarding systemic overfishing of King Crabs in Bristol Bay.Seems this is not the first time. Perhaps history is repeating itself but this time a convenient culprit, Global Warming, can take the blame.

Excellent letter Terrin. Very similar politics behind the East Coast Cod collapse.

 

[cuttlefish]

Wasn’t 1975 the year Capt. Phil Harris discovered crab fart bubbles?
Anyway bogus BBRKC surveys aside, this thread is/was about Opies.

 

[terrin]

Wasn’t 1975 the year Capt. Phil Harris discovered crab fart bubbles?
Anyway bogus BBRKC surveys aside, this thread is/was about Opies.

Fart bubbles and Opies? CO2 gas!

 

[SpringVelocity]

It's like one year. Maybe next year will be good.

We all agree the environment is changing.

Is it climate change? Overfishing? Something else? To many unknowns to say.

I will tell you it's interesting how big that Russian fleet has gotten? "Russian crabbing vessels used to deliver their catches directly to ports in Hokkaido, until December of 2014, when a bilateral agreement took effect that requires a Russian certificate of origin for crab imports."

Crab glut from Russia depressing prices in Japan

Sanctions elsewhere have led to a surplus of Russian crab in Japan, which has suppressed prices.

www.seafoodsource.com

 

[SpringFever552]

cue the inevitable PR anti-narrative response from some petroleum engineer whom gets paid from the front groups of coal and oil multinationals and runs a blog that the deniers flock to stating that the crabs ran away from Greta

Just waiting for you to post something linking ff as the reason for decline

 

[terrin]

https://meetings.npfmc.org/CommentREview/DownloadFile?p=5606e5d3-2fb3-4b3b-9094-5bd86298563a.pdf&fileName=1%20Eastern%20Beiring%20Sea%20Snow%20Crab%20SAFE.pdf

 

[terrin]

https://meetings.npfmc.org/CommentREview/DownloadFile?p=5606e5d3-2fb3-4b3b-9094-5bd86298563a.pdf&fileName=1%20Eastern%20Beiring%20Sea%20Snow%20Crab%20SAFE.pdf

Read last line in Chapter A - 4 . Tells you all you really need to know.

 

[searun]

No surprise, that's how they do it in AK. Halibut by-catch is NO different.

 

[onefish]

The SE Alaska fishery at Noyes Island that targets all southbound salmon and steelhead stocks also operates this way. Problem, what problem?