Post by 🦍MAXX＞ⓤ on Oct 17, 2022 19:43:00 GMT -5
After 80% population drop in 4 years, Alaska cancels snow crab season in unprecedented move
Alaska officials have canceled several crab harvests in a conservation effort that sent shock waves through the crabbing industry in the region.
Officials canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest and, for the first time on record, are holding off on the winter harvest of snow crab, according to multiple reports.
The decision comes after stark population declines of the animals. Data from an NOAA eastern Bering Sea survey shows a 92% decline in overall snow crab abundance from 2018 to 2021, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game confirmed to USA TODAY. The population declined 83% from 2018 to 2022 as some small crab entered the population in 2022, according to the department's Division of Commercial Fisheries.
www.yahoo.com/news/80-population-drop-4-years-222223403.html
Alaska officials have canceled several crab harvests in a conservation effort that sent shock waves through the crabbing industry in the region.
Officials canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest and, for the first time on record, are holding off on the winter harvest of snow crab, according to multiple reports.
The decision comes after stark population declines of the animals. Data from an NOAA eastern Bering Sea survey shows a 92% decline in overall snow crab abundance from 2018 to 2021, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game confirmed to USA TODAY. The population declined 83% from 2018 to 2022 as some small crab entered the population in 2022, according to the department's Division of Commercial Fisheries.
www.yahoo.com/news/80-population-drop-4-years-222223403.html
