PRICE OF THE BRICK GOIN UP!! ALASKA CRAB SEASON CANCELED!!

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Alaska officials have canceled the fall Bristol Bay red king crab harvest, and in a first-ever move, also scuttled the winter harvest of smaller snow crab.

The move is a double whammy to a fleet of about 60 vessels from Alaska, Washington and Oregon pursuing Bering Sea crab in harvests that as recently as 2016 grossed $280 million. Each boat typically employs six to seven people.

“I am struggling for words. This is so unbelievable that this is happening,” said Jamie Goen, executive director of the Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers. “We have third-generation fishermen who are going to go out of business.”

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Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change
The closures reflect conservation concerns about both crab species in the aftermath of bleak summer population surveys. The tough decisions to shut down the snow crab and fall king crab harvests came after days of discussions by Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists and senior agency officials who faced crabbers’ pleas for at least small fisheries.
“Management of Bering Sea snow crab must now focus on conservation and rebuilding given the conditions of the stock,” the department said in a Monday statement announcing the snow crab cancellation.
Snow crab populations collapsed in the aftermath of a 2019 Bering Sea warming that scrambled the broader marine ecosystem.
As temperatures rose and winter ice cover shrank, Pacific cod populations pushed north. Bristol Bay sockeye, which are hatched in freshwater but migrate into the ocean, thrived through the warming period, and returned this summer in record numbers.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Dudes talking about they going out of jobs. They can't let them wipe out the crabs so they don't miss one season. Conservation has to happen.

 

[ZEupTWN]

 

[Professor Emeritus]

How stupid do you have to be talking about not killing the last of the crabs because you have "third-generation fishermen" who need to support their familes. Do they realize that if you kill the crabs then that support is gone forever?

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

How stupid do you have to be talking about not killing the last of the crabs because you have "third-generation fishermen" who need to support their familes. Do they realize that if you kill the crabs then that support is gone forever?

This is humanity in a nutshell tho.

 

[Mike Nasty]

This is humanity in a nutshell tho.

A bird guy was telling me that when people realized the Passenger Pigeons were going extinct they actually killed them faster cause they knew they would be gone soon.

 

[At30wecashout]

To be honest cats in the article sound like fools who were complaining about mitigation measures at the height of Covid while thousands of people were dying and getting shipped off in cold storage containers. Humanity is such a disappointment.

 

[MikelArteta]

 

[Stir Fry]

 

[KRayner]

this is gonna be more common

 

[Geode]

Tragedy of the Commons in the making.

 

[F*ckthemkids]

They been side stepping conservation and regulation for years. This is the result.

 

[skylove4]

I hope if Jameis ever wins the Super Bowl he has a huge crab leg buffet set up in the locker room just to troll them cacs

 

[Scaaar]

Dudes talking about they going out of jobs. They can't let them wipe out the crabs so they don't miss one season. Conservation has to happen.

Capitalism in a nutshell. How do they not have a rainy day fund? Did they honestly believe that it was always going to be business as usual yr after yr?