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In 2022, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) banned commercial fishing of snow crabs in the Bering Sea for the first time for the 2022/23 season. [13] The reason for this was the sharp decline in the population.
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 ...
What happened to Alaska's crabs? Between 2018 and 2021, there was an unexpected 92% decline in snow crab abundance, or about 10 billion crabs. The crabs had been plentiful in the years prior ...
For the first time, crews in Alaska won’t be braving ice and sea spray to pluck snow crab from the Bering Sea.
Snow crab can also be used as an ingredient in ... This decimation of the crustaceans’ population spurred the closing of the Alaska snow crab season for the first ...
The decline of the Alaskan snow crab signals a wider ecosystem change in the Arctic, as oceans warm and sea ice disappears.
As a result, the current season is very short and in the 2010 season, only 24,000,000 pounds (11,000,000 kg) of red king crab were landed. [3] Alaskan crab fishing is very dangerous, and the fatality rate among the fishermen is about 80 times the fatality rate of the average worker.
Snow crabs are big business in Alaska. A fleet of roughly 60 crab ships harvested snow crab in 2020, grossing roughly $132 million, according to a report from the Alaska Fisheries Information ...