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Environment & Energy

Old Crank

(6,563 posts)

1. It won't get better

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sat Jan 6, 2024, 09:19 AM

Jan 2024

Unless their food supply can bounce back.
Reduced predation by the crabs should help some but if it is too warm for the critters the crab eat there won't be many snow crabs at all.
Perhaps some of the fish they eat headed north.

So little we don't know about the marine environment and how it functions.

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Alaskan Snow Crab Fishery Closed For Second Straight Year - Marine Heatwave Wiped Out 90% Of Population [View all] hatrack Jan 2024 OP

It won't get better Old Crank Jan 2024 #1

The problem is that the warmer water speeds up their metabolism NickB79 Jan 2024 #8

The lobster population off of Maine and Cape Cod is crashing too Botany Jan 2024 #2

I enjoy the Discovery channel show-The Deadliest Catch LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2024 #3

Just perhaps this will convince those RW idiots. efhmc Jan 2024 #4

Nope - haven't you heard? hatrack Jan 2024 #5

I have not been able NotMissD Jan 2024 #6

I think they mean King Crab, not snow crab Kali Jan 2024 #7