Maybe some of our Alaskan/Pacific NW members can give us some more details?
This is going to hurt a lot of people, not just the folks who eat the crabs, but the processing companies, the guys who go out and make a living harvesting the crabs, restaurants, etc. And clearly will be driving up prices for whatever snow crabs are available.
Story is from The Blaze:
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This is going to hurt a lot of people, not just the folks who eat the crabs, but the processing companies, the guys who go out and make a living harvesting the crabs, restaurants, etc. And clearly will be driving up prices for whatever snow crabs are available.
Story is from The Blaze:
Alaska's snow crab season canceled for the first time ever, officials perplexed by mysterious disappearance of 1 billion crabs
A mysterious disappearance of an estimated 1 billion snow crabs has forced Alaska to cancel the winter snow crab season – the first time in state history. On Monday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G;) canceled the entire 2022-2023 snow crab season. The Alaska Department of Fish and...
www.theblaze.com
A mysterious disappearance of an estimated 1 billion snow crabs has forced Alaska to cancel the winter snow crab season – the first time in state history.
On Monday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) canceled the entire 2022-2023 snow crab season.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game declared, "The stock is estimated to be below the ADF&G regulatory threshold for opening a fishery. Therefore, Bering Sea snow crab will remain closed for the 2022/23 season."
For the second year in a row, ADF&G officials canceled the Bristol Bay red king crab harvest for the 2022-2023 season.
There has been a sudden and dramatic plunge in crab stocks in the region.
Miranda Westphal – an area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game – noted that the conservation organization had seen the "largest pulse of small crab we’d ever seen in the history of the fishery" in 2018.
