The snow crab population shrank from around 8 billion in 2018 to 1 billion in 2021, according to a researcher with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Alaska's Department of Fish and Game is suspending both the king crab season and the snow crab season, saying it's the only way to build up dwindling stocks, KTUU reports.
But the actual numbers behind that decision are shocking: The snow crab population shrank from around 8 billion in 2018 to 1 billion in 2021, according to Benjamin Daly, a researcher with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Officials cited overfishing as their rationale for canceling the seasons. Mark Stichert, the groundfish and shellfish fisheries management coordinator with the state's fish and game department, said that more crab were being fished out of the oceans than could be naturally replaced.
"We call it overfishing because of the size level," Michael Litzow, the Kodiak lab director for NOAA Fisheries, told CNN. "But it wasn't overfishing that caused the collapse, that much is clear." "There have been a number of attribution studies that have looked at specific temperatures in the Bering Sea or Bering Sea ice cover in 2018, and in those attribution studies, they've concluded that those temperatures and low-ice conditions in the Bering sea are a consequence of global warming," Litzow said.
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