Current Events > Scientists believe global warming cause billions of crabs to starve in Alaska

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/19/us/alaska-crabs-ocean-heat-climate/index.html

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.
The finding comes just days after the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced the snow crab harvest season was canceled for the second year in a row, citing the overwhelming number of crabs missing from the typically frigid, treacherous waters of the Bering Sea.
The study, published Thursday by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found a significant link between recent marine heat waves in the eastern Bering Sea and the sudden disappearance of the snow crabs that began showing up in surveys in 2021.

Who's the one that counted them all? That must have been God damn tedious if ya ask me!

It's must be global warming :eye roll:

The crabs obviously evolved into water crabs, which have no hunting season

We'll all be stuck eating sun crab soon like commoners

I watch Deadliest Catch, the Alaskan crab season in 2021-22 was closed entirely, lot of them went to other nations to fish. If snow crab prices are absurd this year, it's because we went a full fishing season without a catch.

Thats crazy. Billions of crab

Huh. Better get some snow crab before they're too expensive to ever have again.

Maybe canceling Deadliest Catch will be the wake up call the world needs

Probably why the price of crab legs has gotten so ridiculous at restaurants. Used to be a tradition for my parents to take me there every year for my birthday. A few years ago my mom and I went and I had to scale down what I would normally get not because of appetite, but because of guilt to her wallet if I didn't.

Warmer crabs will now thrive

or Hell Shrimp