For the first time, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has canceled the upcoming winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea following the disappearance of 90 percent of snow crabs last season. The state is also continuing a ban on catching king crabs in the Bristol Bay for a second consecutive year.
Alaska’s crab fishing industry is worth more than $200 million, according to a report by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, which promotes seafood. The state supplies 6 percent of the world’s king, snow, tanner, and Dungeness crabs, per the institute.
“We’re still trying to figure it out, but certainly there’s very clear signs of the role of climate change in the collapse,” Michael Litzow, shellfish assessment program manager at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said, as reported by Bloomberg. NOAA runs an annual survey of Bering Sea snow crab numbers, but it was the Alaska Department of Fish and Game that canceled the Bering snow crab fishing season on Oct. 10.
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