Alaska snow crab season canceled officials investigate disappearance of an est 1 billion crabs

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: marg6043

If one billion crabs were dead in the beaches right now, we will be smelling the stench for months, I am from an Island, I know how dead fish smells like, even the seaweed once a year comes ashore and smell like crap for a month.

Yep you can no ignore the stench of one billion dead crab, plus the fly population will be incredible too.

Most seem to be saying population migration FWIW as opposed to a die off, I suppose it could be a combination of that as well. But would they just wash up on beaches/coast line seems like we were of heard about that by now if it were a die off

But as the 2nd article says it basically isn't new there was a drop-off in 2019 2020 was canceled because of the pandemic. Seems to me if there was limited fishing in 19 and no fishing in 2020 fishing didn't have an effect this year

I agree. If this is happening multiple years in a row, something systemic in the environment has changed. The population is not able to reproduce itself the same way it was a few years ago. Their habitable zone has moved.

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a reply to: pheonix358

Beat me to it.

originally posted by: pheonix358
The radiation from Fukushima finally made its way up to these latitudes and the crabs have a massive die-off.

Much of the North Pacific is ruined.

Yeah, lets blame climate change!

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That's the first thing I thought as well. All them isotopes floated there through the bottom where the crabs live.
Such a shame. I was wondering why I haven't seen decent crab since before the pandemic.

originally posted by: pheonix358
The radiation from Fukushima finally made its way up to these latitudes and the crabs have a massive die-off.

Much of the North Pacific is ruined.

Yeah, lets blame climate change!

P

Millions of dead Salmon was discovered this week. My first thought was radiation poisoning.

a reply to: marg6043

Definitely stinks like a load of crab to me too.

originally posted by: 1947boomer

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: pheonix358
The radiation from Fukushima finally made its way up to these latitudes and the crabs have a massive die-off.

Much of the North Pacific is ruined.

Yeah, lets blame climate change!

P

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Curious and bored I wanted to pull up some data sets from the NOAA/Bering Sea and they aren't available

Yes they are. I just looked at them at:

www.ndbc.noaa.gov...

Look at the water temperatures at St Lawrence Island. That's right in the middle of the Bering Strait. There are historical recordings going back at least to the 1980s.

Those are surface temps was looking for bottom temperature

originally posted by: marg6043
Maybe somebody can come out with a new solution make crabs meat from bugs, that out to make the insatiable palate of the crap eaters, I mean crab eaters feel like they are eating crap, I mean crab.

Best way to boost the prices on crab, create a crisis and raise the prices, well they all can have it, I am not a crab eater, soo it does not bother me a bit.

Crustaceans happen to be the bottom feeders of the oceans; they are actually the cockroaches of the oceans.

Funny enough, some people call them the spider of the sea, but somehow I still dont find terrestrial spiders appetizing whatsoever.

We know the magnetic poles are dramatically shifting. The north pole is moving towards Irkutsk Russia. Perhaps they have migrated like the pole has. The underground volcanos that are being found in the warmer waters of the Antarctic are likely happening in the Arctic region.Jupiter is showing major changes you can get a quick summation here.

What has Bill gates been spraying in the water?

originally posted by: pheonix358
The radiation from Fukushima finally made its way up to these latitudes and the crabs have a massive die-off.

Much of the North Pacific is ruined.

Yeah, lets blame climate change!

P

That’s exactly what first came to mind.

Climate change? My ass, let’s look at the elephant in the room first. Leaking radiation…for years.

originally posted by: marg6043
Maybe somebody can come out with a new solution make crabs meat from bugs, that out to make the insatiable palate of the crap eaters, I mean crab eaters feel like they are eating crap, I mean crab.

Best way to boost the prices on crab, create a crisis and raise the prices, well they all can have it, I am not a crab eater, soo it does not bother me a bit.

Crustaceans happen to be the bottom feeders of the oceans; they are actually the cockroaches of the oceans.

Impossible Crab will be the new product soon.

Hmmm
An arctic species of animal that thrives in cold water…
Raise the water temp and the population lowers….

Go figure..🤔

The crab boat captains probably know where they went.

Snow crab is my least favorite type of crab. I do have at least a couple pounds or so out in the freezer. I prefer Dungeness and King.

originally posted by: putnam6

originally posted by: Allaroundyou
a reply to: putnam6

Now it's going to be like the gold rush trying to find them!

Well that's the thing it don't matter the season is cancelled, would very expensive for boats to try and dash northward to find them even if they could/

I would imagine the NOAA should have a boat or 2 looking to see where they may be. Some think it is population migration some think a population die off.

It's like our oyster farming here. We have to move north from Hiroshima.

The fresh water drum fish, aka sheep's head, and the northern pike both taste like crab meat. I used to throw out sheep's head when fishing before I knew how to prepare them. Other than the bones, it's just like crab to me.

originally posted by: The GUT
They are hiding from all you porky Chinese Buffet Bandits,

Shiiiiiiit they never use REAL crab in those places anyway lol

originally posted by: visitedbythem
The crab boat captains probably know where they went.

Snow crab is my least favorite type of crab. I do have at least a couple pounds or so out in the freezer. I prefer Dungeness and King.

King Crab allllll the way my man!

There are more and more unnatural chemistries being dumped into the sewers which wind up in the Ocean now. The currents up there appear to be channeled from Asia areas, so who knows what sort of chemicals could be causing problems with these crabs immune systems functioning properly. We keep dumping unnatural or concentrated natural chemistry into the environment, that is going to upset things eventually. I think this is more important than the carbon increase...but much of these chemicals have been utilizing fossil fuel chemicals in their creation. Plastic is often created by chemistries in oil. How about how much medicines and chemicals are created in China? Could byproducts of that process screw that up in the Ocean and effect the health or personality of the crab? The medicines that are peed out into the sewers in California are effecting the shrimp population, the shrimp are not staying in safe locations and the antidepressant chemistry is making them venture into dangerous waters and getting eaten.