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(DAILY WIRE) – A billion crabs have vanished from the Bering Sea and no one knows why. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea after determining that 90% of the population has disappeared in the last two years. While the news is bad for commercial fishermen and seafood lovers, experts think it may bode much worse for the ecosystem, according to CBS News.
“Did they run up north to get that colder water?” fisherman Gabriel Prout said in an interview with the outlet. “Did they completely cross the border? Did they walk off the continental shelf on the edge there, over the Bering Sea?”
The 90% population plunge came between 2019 and 2021, and surveys now show 2022 counts have dropped even further, Miranda Westphal, a biologist with the Department of Fish and Game, told Alaska Public Media.