7 billion snowcrabs have disappeared around Alaska

[deminks]

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=7mix-gtBuYAYeVUSf77LDQ

For the right wingnuts and Herschel Walker, probably, looking for all those corpses, it is an inability to breed in warmer waters, not a die off.

No harvest this year.

[J_William_Ryan]

1. Human-caused climate change.

The dishonest right will lie that human-caused climate change is ‘natural.’

[GreenWave]

3. Most likely.

Different predators can move to new areas and munch away.

[Lovie777]

2. The 1st thing on mind was climate change as well.......

[roamer65]

4. 8 BILLION IS TOO MANY.

It becomes more obvious by the day.

[Coventina]

7. By the time we die of self-inflicted suicide, it may be too late for most of our fellow species.

That's the biggest tragedy of all.

[Volaris]

25. Disagree. If there were only 2 billion of us left, we would easily

Move to habitable regions, and the rest of the planet would recover.
Now that we're here, it willbe damn hard to kill us off (but it will require our future adaptation)

[MissB]

11. Well now there are 7 billion less

Oh, you meant people not crabs.

[roamer65]

21. LOL.

Nice double entendre.

[hunter]

24. three ways to deal with this -- We can ignore the problem and let Mother Nature do it...

... in her usual gruesome ways of starvation, thirst, and exposure.

Or we can ignore our common humanity and start shooting one another over trivial cultural differences, which is the usual habit of humans.

Or we can reduce our birthrate by raising living standards for all, empowering women economically and politically, and by promoting realistic sex education and birth control.

"Conservatives" worldwide seem to prefer option two which is why we have to fight for option three.

[Lucinda]

5. ...

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I have been watching The Deadliest Catch for a long time

Last season they started moving some of the show to Norway. I suspect that there will far more show in Norway next season

[herding cats]

8. The Alaskan snow crab season has been canceled this year.

I'm assuming they'll have to move all the show to Norway now?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. King Crab was cancelled this season

Some of the boats fished for Cod and other species of crab. I fear that this show may not survive these shutdowns

[herding cats]

12. Oh, I get my crabs mixed up!

Yeah, those shows are likely not in a good position to survive at this pace.

It's heartbreaking how many crabs just vanished.

[paleotn]

18. Actually, both "snow" ie. opilio and "king" aka red crab seasons are closed.

Not a terribly surprising event. Stocks have been declining the last several years, but kept being fished....until they collapsed. Similar to the Atlantic Cod debacle, money apparently trumped good sense and good management until it was too late and populations plummeted. It will take years for them to recover.

[paleotn]

19. Pacific Cod aren't in the best of shape either.

As we continue waiting for Atlantic cod stocks to recover in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, if ever given climate change, I hope we're not doing the same thing to their Pacific cousins. They're supposedly managed well, but that's what they said about Atlantic Cod stocks in the 90's.

[c-rational]

15. +1

[Volaris]

26. Or fish further north where cold waters are...

[bahboo]

10. a way of life will disappear....

will any right wingers notice...

[tecelote]

13. Insects...

Insects have declined by 50% in parts of world
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/world/insect-collapse-climate-change-scn/index.html

[czarjak]

14. Birds?

[LT Barclay]

17. yes, lack of insects, insects hatching earlier than birds arrive, habitat loss, loss to cats,

collisions with buildings, etc.
The descriptions of the flocks of birds that existed before the 1800's makes me realize we are in a seriously degraded world. So much that was beautiful lost.

[Pepsidog]

16. Imagine what wild life and sea life existed before exploitation by man. Technology doesn't

give most sea life a chance. Sonar and other technologies find the swarm and devastate the population. Stop the harvest, let the population rebound and help out the people involved in commercial fisheries survive.

[superpatriotman]

20. This will somehow be blamed on the left

Just wait for it.

[roamer65]

22. Crab prices are going to go through the roof.

I don’t like crab meat, so I won’t endure that price inflation.

[roamer65]

23. According to ALJazeera Newshour.

In the 1980’s the average time between extreme weather events was around 82 days.

Between 2017 and 2021 it dropped to 18 days.

WE ARE FUCKED.