An effort to curtail the plummeting population of snow crabs in Alaska will mean hundreds of crabbers could be sidelined for at least a year.
that the Bering Sea snow crab season will remain closed through the spring of 2023.
NOAA surveys are conducted each year to help guide managing organizations with restrictions and limitations put on species during the fishing and hunting seasons. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 36 million pounds of crabs were caught in 2020 by American crabbers.Biologists theorize that reduced cold water pockets likely led to the crabs congregating in limited real estate, which put stress on their ecosystem.
Aside from the harvesting restrictions, biologists believe there is little that can be done in the short term to help the snow crab population.
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