No more crab legs

[BluesLegend]

I'm not a crabber or a fisherman, is that good or bad?

We caught the State limit for crab and fish so yes, killed it and back to the docks early!

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

We caught the State limit for crab and fish so yes, killed it and back to the docks early!

I'm not all that big on water faring animals for food.
I eat canned tuna, and I love fried shrimp and shrimp cocktail.
I love fried catfish. But thats about the extent of it.

Once in a while I do get a hankerin for stuffed crab, but it's rare.

 

[Resnic]

Yeah..good thing that climate change and the changing temperature, Ph and salinity of the Arctic ocean is fake news eh?

Snow crab shortage: Billions of snow crabs disappeared from waters around Alaska, cancelling harvest

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.

abc7chicago.com

Between the surveys conducted in 2021 and 2022, he said, mature male snow crabs declined about 40%, with an estimated 45 million pounds left in the entire Bering Sea.
"It's a scary number, just to be clear," Stichert said.
But calling the Bering Sea crab population "overfished" -- a technical definition that triggers conservation measures -- says nothing about the cause of its collapse.
"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."
Litzow says human-caused climate change is a significant factor in the crabs' alarming disappearance.
Snow crabs are cold-water species and found overwhelmingly in areas where water temperatures are below 2 degrees Celsius, Litzow says. As oceans warm and sea ice disappears, the ocean around Alaska is becoming inhospitable for the species.
"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.

Temperatures around the Arctic have warmed four times faster than the rest of the planet, scientists have reported. Climate change has triggered a rapid loss in sea ice in the Arctic region, particularly in Alaska's Bering Sea, which in turn has amplified global warming.
"Closing the fisheries due to low abundance and continuing research are the primary efforts to restore the populations at this point," Ethan Nichols, an assistant area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, told CNN.
Stichert also said that there might be some "optimism for the future" as a few, small juvenile snow crabs are starting to appear in the system. But it could be at least three to four more years before they hit maturity and contribute to the regrowth of the population.
"It is a glimmer of optimism," Litzow said. "That's better than not seeing them, for sure. We get a little bit warmer every year and that variability is higher in Arctic ecosystems and high latitude ecosystems, and so if we can get a cooler period that would be good news for snow crab."

It's not fake news. What's fake is the rhetoric being mindlessly spewed out is that it's gas cars, plastic bags and farting cows.

Climate change is real. It's so real it's been happening for billions of years. Why else was the Sahara desert and antarctic millions of years ago rain Forrest's? Not to mention the thousands and thousands of other times earth has been in upheaval millions of years before man ever existed.

 

[insolent imp]

We caught the State limit for crab and fish so yes, killed it and back to the docks early!

A good day fishing.

 

[Delldude]

A good day fishing.

Is better than bad day working.

 

[insolent imp]

I've been wanting a few fresh fish , I may put out a few brush lines tomorrow.

Is better than bad day working

 

[Blues Man]

When the food shortages hit and rationing begins, Democrats to the back of the line.

crabs have never been a staple food and don't you think not fishing a species to extinction is a good thing?

 

[TheGreatSatan]

crabs have never been a staple food and don't you think not fishing a species to extinction is a good thing?

Food lines in your town, Democrats who brought these shortages to us, go to the back of the line.

 

[Blues Man]

Food lines in your town, Democrats who brought these shortages to us, go to the back of the line.

I have never had any problem getting food.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

I have never had any problem getting food.

Good. When that changes, democrats will be sent to the back of the line. Same with fuel shortages.

Democrats to the back of the line

 

[insolent imp]

Good. When that changes, democrats will be sent to the back of the line. Same with fuel shortages.

Democrats to the back of the line

the ability and skill to hunt your own food doesn't just go away. hence there isn't a need to stand in any line.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

the ability and skill to hunt your own food doesn't just go away. hence there isn't a need to stand in any line.

When fuel rationing begins, Democrats to the back of the line.

 

[insolent imp]

When fuel rationing begins, Democrats to the back of the line.

if they have an EV dems won't need that line.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

if they have an EV dems won't need that line.

When there is no gas, there won't be any power.

Democrats to the back of the line.

 

[insolent imp]

When there is no gas, there won't be any power.

Democrats to the back of the line.

then there wouldn't be a line.

 

[theHawk]

I'm disappointed to see this delicacy go away. It looks like it may take years to start harvesting again if ever.


In a major blow to America's seafood industry, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has, for the first time in state history, canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers. While restaurant menus will suffer, scientists worry what the sudden population plunge means for the health of the Arctic ecosystem.

An estimated one billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in two years, state officials said. It marks a 90% drop in their population.

Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs

An estimated 1 billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared from Alaskan waters in two years, officials said.

www.google.com

Just think how bad the sea ecology will get when we have to start scrapping the bottom sea floor for lithium and cobalt for EV batteries.

The race for electric vehicle parts leads to risky deep-ocean mining

The electric vehicle boom is driving a surge in demand for prized metals needed for batteries and other components. Some companies say the solution lies in mining the deep oceans, but scientists say that could irreversibly damage a vast, largely pristine ecosystem.

www.pbs.org

Ain’t green energy wonderful?