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In previous collapses such organizations sounded the alarm well before. Something else is happening.
by PuppyTailWags 4y ago
In previous collapses such organizations sounded the alarm well before. Something else is happening.
- barkingcat 4y agohttps://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/09/alaska-snow-crab-harvest-slashed-by-nearly-90-after-population-crash-in-a-warming-bering-sea/ https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2021/10/09/alaska-snow-crab-... The alarm has been sounding for at least a season, maybe even more.
- llbeansandrice 4y agoBy contrast cod that folks keep referencing collapsed 90% over _30 years_. An issue with a single season does not suggest that the regulations weren't strict enough. They now do need to become more strict as a reaction to the population but fishing is not the only pressure on a population and I find it difficult to believe that snow crab would be fished basically to extinction in < 700 days