No more crab legs

[Doc7505]

crab cakes are made with blue crab

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Just boiled up a dozen Blue claws this evening. Caught them off the dock at Calabasas.

 

[Delldude]

Won't be hardly any new food produced soon

Bill Gates coming out with veggie crab legs.

 

[Puma Punku]

Any protein that an American can get from the "wild" that has not been produced by giant corporations, using every chemical, steroid, additives etc..known to man, is in fact, the healthiest thing they could be eating. Unfortunately, for most Americans, food from the "wild" is simply not available.

 

[Puma Punku]

In fact, the majority of protein that Americans eat is severely tainted, on purpose to increase profits. If you personally watched the process from start to finish,,,,you would never, ever eat another Jimmy Dean sausage. Now, a wild caught tuna, "long lined" 2000 miles offshore from San Diego is, indeed, good , clean, delicious food. Only the very wealthy tend to know this.

 

[Delldude]

In fact, the majority of protein that Americans eat is severely tainted, on purpose to increase profits. If you personally watched the process from start to finish,,,,you would never, ever eat another Jimmy Dean sausage. Now, a wild caught tuna, "long lined" 2000 miles offshore from San Diego is, indeed, good , clean, delicious food. Only the very wealthy tend to know this.

If refrigerated properly.

 

[Puma Punku]

For those Americans that can afford it, the best seafood available on this planet can be fed- ex to their door.. Frozen, freshly processed (cooled with blue ice) or even live. I know I guy that buys crabs. He boxes them up, adds blue ice, seals the box, injects oxygen and flies them to Asia, where the live crabs are actually sold in VENDING machines. The seafood business is complex.

 

[MisterBeale]

 

[Puma Punku]

A few short years ago American Sea Cucumbers (mostly sold to China) were fetching less than a dollar a pound. China was poor. Now, China is not poor. They are happy to pay five dollars a pound for the same product. This is indicative of many fisheries, that have seen huge changes, as China becomes more wealthy, and looking to spend that money on luxuries like seafood.

 

[Brick Gold]

Better grab those cans of crab meat at the grocery store before they go extinct.

 

[candycorn]

I had crab legs once.

It was hard to find pants that fit.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Democrats WILL BE the food!!!

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EAT THE OLIGARCHY!!!!

Go for the vegans first. Carnivores taste nasty.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Well considering all the shit that is going into the oceans now and the fact that crabs are bottom feeders, I'm ok without it.

I haven't eaten crab in probably 25 years. Not gonna miss it.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Lol republicans be like "meh, nobody likes to eat crab anyways"

I quit eating filthy bottom-eating crab waaaaaaaaaaaaay back, when I was a liberal democrat.

See, dems used to have brains.

 

[SweetSue92]

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

What did they do--give them the covid vaccines?

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

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

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."

 

[The Duke]

Could be one of those huge Chinese fishing ships got up in there and sucked them all out.

 

[insolent imp]

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."

I did read the article before posting it.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Meh, we went crabbing today and put 84 crab on the boat with just a 5 hour soak. Plus 18 rock fish and 6 Ling Cod.

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

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

Bill Gates coming out with veggie crab legs.

"Fake" and vegan options have been on the store shelves for a while now.
They're made from tofu. Tofu can be processed to be pretty much anything you want.

Some brands are much better than others though.

 

[Delldude]

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

Still time to become an old crab.....

"Fake" and vegan options have been on the store shelves for a while now.
They're made from tofu. Tofu can be processed to be pretty much anything you want.

Some brands are much better than others though.

Don't forget those types like Louis Kemp. They're not too bad, especially in casseroles and other dishes. Unless one wants the real deal.