Many have proposed alternative explanations for the snow crab disappearance, such as Fukushima and poaching from China or Russia, and I respond to those in this video here → ua-cam.com/video/hJiqIuM2aVs/v-deo.html
HERES ONE THE CALDERA rather then worrying about how far the sun is away from us. a local vent opened just south of Alaska.. that is what is warming the water. concerning climate change you need a longer test sample, that means rather then a hot time coming we are at the beginning of the next ice age.. real science not speculation have a better day
@@internetkilledthetv549 yeah dummy. The ice age is due to warming. Why? Because when it's cold you have snow. When it warms up you have ice. End of discussion. Idiots... smh.
@@KPassionate Negative. What needs to happen is to.ha e a program like we do with cheese. Kind of anyways. When the populations are booming, we need to CATCH A LOT MORE CRABS! FREEZE THEM IN HUGE STORAGE FREEZERS. Then in times like these we can have steady supplies and prices. Also, the democrats have got to go. They manipulate and lie about everything. It's really sad and pathetic.
Commercial fishing is one of the only real reasons for many of the remote communities throughout the Aleutian chain and the Alaskan coastline, you're talking about a lot more than just commercial fisherman and their families, you're talking about the existence of remote communities in Alaska.
I’ve lived in anchorage for 35 yrs. The only difference is glaciers have receded. Far as the temperature of air it’s still on point take for example, the past 3 winters now today it’s 2 degrees. , it’s been the same the past several yrs. The summers are if not warmer only yr it was abnormally warm was 2019 July it hit the 80’s. Besides that it’s been normal mid to upper 60’s but less than 5 days in low 70’s. This is anchorage Kenai area Fairbanks gets warmer cause there 500 miles inland more than half you people have no clue to what your talking about. By-catch is what is ruining the population of all fish. Go research that!!
This is a huge crisis. Yes, we all love crabs but their disappearance effects multiple strands on the food chain. Shortages of many fish that humans eat will soon become scarce too.😔
@@realtalk37851 It's true. Who stopped the fishing/crabbing? The Government. How many fires and explosions have Food production/distibution plants destroy these past 2 yeas. (over 600) How many do we usually average per year? (less than 10) Do you think this is all a coincident? And now a railroad strike.
I wish people would stop with the fear mongering. These crabs aren't " gone " they just aren't in their normal spots. Do you need a hint? A hurricane just went through there, yes it's odd but it's true. As was above, so is below. You don't see a bunch of birds flying around in tornados, nor do you see dolphins jumping around the oceans of Florida when a hurricane goes through there. Animals know when the tides are changing and they get out of the way. Yes it sucks that the big dollar season is shot to hell in a hand basket, but some things just need to be recognized. Next season will ( should ) be a bombshell of a season. This would be a great time to prepare for it, buy another boat or 10, male sure your nets/baskets are in serviceable condition, fill the fuel tanks.... put the work in that is constantly put on the back burner because there is no time for it, you have a whole season of down time.
wonderful video KP! I wonder if a species of predator has adapted their diets to crab, possible due to losing their usual prey, or possibly a boom in a predator species like octopuses or sleeper sharks?
Great question! I have seen some reports that the warming waters and subsequent shift of the cold pool has exposed juvenile crabs to the adults who are engaging in cannibalism.
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Crabs haven't necessarily disappeared, officials just don't know where they are. Assuming what she says is true and that many sea creatures feed on snow crab then watch those populations, if they don't decline then that suggests the crabs are somewhere nobody expects them to be.
Fishermen in Newfoundland Canada can tell you all about over fishing. They, along with European Fishing trawler, wiped out their Cod Fishery in the early eighties. It Still hasn't recovered.
Instead of just subsidizing the crews to sit around waiting for nature to solve the problem, we should offer them retraining and education to help design and build mitigating solutions. Hatcheries and such should be built as a partial solution, to take advantage of what little genetic diversity is still left after 90% of the population is already gone. We need to use our brains and our backs to do whatever we can, and I'm pretty sure that all these idled fisherman would rather be part of the solution than sitting around waiting for a subsidy check.
Fisherman have been idled everywhere around America. Even here in Hawaii, the commercial fishing industry is smaller than it used to be. Retraining into some other industry is much easier said than done. Most especially in Alaska, where other jobs are ver hard to find because it lacks an industrial base. More than 15 years after the King crab fishery collapse, that fishery has still not recovered. So recovery of the fishery is not very promising. But something must be done to start mitigating the effects climate change.
I love this idea. We need to rewild much of the planet. However the conservative government of Alaska, run by those that actively seek to destroy nature, will never do that.
Can these crabs even be spawned in a hatchery? I honestly don't know but I do know that a number of other marine species have been tried with no success in that type of process. Its nearly impossible to match the natural habitats, the ecosystems that various parts of their life cycles depend on for many fish and crustaceans. Farming can also have its own negative effects, for example salmon farms have been known to encourage diseases that are both negative to the farmed fish but also have potential to spread to wild populations. Farming can also cause depletion of other species because of waste concentrations and simply the volume of food that must be caught and processed to feed the farmed fish which in turn has its own impacts. If its possible then it could help but the idea that marine species can simply be hatched out and grown like trout or salmon is not always possible and certainly isn't a given. The fact that this points to the sea algea in ice and the pockets of cold water they need and with a species found in depths of hundreds of feet there's at least a reasonable chance that aquaculture isn't an answer to the issue. Besides which NOAA and NMFS have shown in many fisheries that there's a huge disconnect between the actual data, the collection methods and the other data forms used in calculating fishery populations, let alone the reasoning for it. The story thats been around from a while back was that they were sampling and the ship was dragging nets here on the east coast and were causing great concern because nearly nothing was being caught suggesting a massive collapse. It was finally realized that they had rigged the otter boards wrong and the net was closing itself up instead holding the net open and in turn caused that lack of catches. Its also the same organization that has said large amounts of fish were landed by the fleet based on the surveys of fishermen they took, yet due to the impacts of weather and a destructive storm, there was basically zero fishing done. Hard to justify the fleet catching tons of fish when they were all tied to the docks and shows just how bad the mix of poor science and mystical voodoo used to develop some of the numbers was. I can't say that its the same here but most fishermen who stay abreast of fisheries management take the NOAA data with a large grain of salt as we have seen its massive flaws many times.
Part of that has to do with forced evolution in fishes caused by throw back laws I.E. an adult fish that's smaller than the law says to keep, it gets thrown back, and then it reproduces and carrys on traits that favor being a small adult fish instead of a large adult fish
@@ryanrodriguez2660 It's a lake, the number of large fish the op speaks of in the past was very finite. If the water is overfished once those lunkers are gone the next size range that would make it to that giant size is instead caught and removed. We don't know if throwbacks are "smaller potential adults" or not. Could they be large immatures? Is the size limit set right at the common size they fullt mature at? Etc.
To begin, I'd like to explain a little about the life cycle of crabs, generally. Crabs are born from nearly microscopic eggs. Mature female crabs will migrate very slowly and methodically up-slope and up-current into relatively warmer and shallower waters to release their eggs by the tens-of-thousands during mid-spring to coincide with the spring algae-blooms (just like flowers bloom on land during spring-time, algae blooms in the oceans). Her hope is: the warm spring currents are going to push her eggs down-current and towards the sea-bed where, hopefully, some of those eggs will get stuck to some of that sticky algae that is growing on a rock on the sea-floor. A VERY tiny percentage of her eggs will actually have this happen (and, of the tiny percentage that find their way into an algae growth, only a very small percentage will survive long enough to develop sufficient locomotion and metabolic processes to continue development). But, those lucky few - they get to nom-nom on some algae for a couple of years while they grow from microscopic, to sort-of-scopic, to that tiny thing looks more like a dime-sized clam than a crab, to something about the size of a U.S.-quarter that actually has a shape that closely resembles and very tiny little crab. Now comes the next stage: up until this point, our baby-crab has just been sucking algae off the rock it was born on (very similar to how an "algae-eater" eats algae of the side of fish-tank). But, now, this baby-crab can't just survive on algae. It's very similar to the stage where a new-born needs something more than formula or breast-milk. It's time for the crab to start eating some solid foods. So the crab, first, has to get off the rock and find a sandy/muddy sea-floor. Assuming it makes it that far, the crab will start to do this very slow, weird "shimmy" through the mud/sand in which it moves very slowly BACKWARDS and uses its wide, flat, rounded body to physically separate the heavier sand/mud and other non-biological particulates from the lighter decaying-biological matter that has sedimented (I prefer to say: "sedimentized" because it sounds waaaay cooler) on upper layer of the ocean-shelf. Occasionally, some other small floor-dwelling organisms will "smell" (it's actually a form of taste, but it makes more sense to our human faculties to associate the reaction with that of human-scent) the little bits of decaying "food" that the growing crab is kicking up and the will come to investigate. This is EXCELLENT, assuming they're not too large, because our growing little crab will let these little "sea-worms" crawl right onto his/her belly while they are trying to score a free-meal - and then our baby-crab will slurp them down like Timone and Simba slurped down grubs in the original Lion King. This works great for a year or two. Until our crab gets to be about the diameter of a soda-can. Now, just like a baby can't live on baby-food forever, it's time for the crab to go find real food.
The next stage of a crab's diet is: Mollusks. Mollusks (technically: mollusca) are basically any invertebrates that have evolutionarily developed a big, hard shell to protect them from predators (that's a dramatic over-simplification; but the point is true-enough.) On land, you've got snails (Snails are just worms that have evolved to have shells that are too heavy, bulky, and strong for birds to prey on them). In the ocean, there are LOTS of mollusks - think of clams - but there are LOTS more. In the same way snails have protected themselves from birds, most sea-dwelling mollusks are pretty-well defended against fish. But crabs have a secret strategy. Crabs will crawl over top of a mollusk, cover it with it's big, wide crab-body and proceed to literally smoother the mollusk into the sand/mud. This can take a little while. In some cases, it can take MONTHS for a mollusk to suffocate. But that's what crabs do. They will hold a mollusk it's shell-opening pinned into the mud for months until they can "smell" (again, like my first-post, it's actually taste; but you get the idea...) that the mollusk is dead. And then they will stick their mouths into the mollusk and sit there for weeks and slowly shake the shell back and forth while the crab nom-noms on the all the yummy goodness as the mollusks inside the shell slowly breaks apart and floats into our kid-crab's hungry "mouth" (crabs don't really have a "mouth"; it's basically an underwater version of what a spider has.)
Before I discuss crabs any further, I want to revert back to the story being discussed here: the apparent mass-crab de-population event currently being observed in observed portions of the Bering Sea. Something to keep in mind, most crabs, like most crustaceans, cannot be accurately and reliably aged by known methods. Lobsters are another great example. We literally have NO IDEA what the life-expectancy of a lobster is, nor what it might, theoretically, be (because nearly ALL dead lobster we have observed in the environment are very apparently the result of externalities). If a Lobster has food, properly oxygenated and salinitized water of appropriate temperature and depth, is not killed by predators or externalities - many biologists believe that some lobsters can live for more than 1,000 years - and that's just a guess - because we don't have a clue. But, with Lobsters, we can estimate the number of times that a lobster has malted. Crabs don't malt. With crabs, we literally cannot tell if a crab is 5 years old, 15 years old, 50 years old, or 500. We are currently unaware of any mechanism that we can use to differentiate or estimate the age of a crab. We have determined that crabs, again, like other crustaceans, achieve physiological development primarily as the result of nutrient uptake rather than age. Which is a scientific way of saying: a crab that is 2 years old but has eaten 5x more than a second crab, will likely present closely to that second crap if that second crap is 10 years old.
This is TREMENDOUSLY important because, our primary source of data on Crab populations is the result of crabs that we remove (either commercially or scientifically) from fisheries and refuges (some of which are returned and some of which are harvested). And we only observe (generally) crabs which are of large enough size to be unable to easily escape from sea-floor traps. Even the portion of the crab-population that is commonly classified as "juvenile specimens" by researchers are crabs so large that we do not believe that any of those specimens have been spawned within the last 4 years and possibly, the youngest crabs we regularly see and analyze may reflect the survivors of a spawn-cycle which, on average, occurred 7-8 years ago.
This might make more sense: when fishermen and researchers did the "Crab-census" (the count of the crabs), we saw a definitive spike in Juvenile crabs during 2016, 2017, and 2018. But those "Juvenile" crabs, were definitely at least a 3-5 years old at the time they were big enough to start coming up in the traps. Which means: whatever caused that spike, was an anomaly that didn't occur in 2016-18; but when those crabs were spawned. So: something happened between 2008-2015 (and, quite likely, this anomaly was a multi-season event), that caused A LOT of crabs to successfully spawn and mature into juveniles (which we then observed - years later). But, between 2021-2022, a HUGE percentage of those juveniles disappeared. We have preliminary data which suggests a decrease in the Bering-Sea crab-population that, at least at current estimates, is best defined as anomolectic [sometimes termed: anomalistic]. That anomolectic data should not be dissociated from the anomolectic data observed several years ago unless sufficient evidence is presented to support such a dissociation. Until then, researchers ought to suspect that the two anomalies are linked (we shouldn't assume they're linked - but we should acknowledge and suspect it). We are not necessarily looking for an anomaly that occurred in the last couple of years. We need to start at the beginning. We need to be looking at the data beginning all the way back nearly 15 years ago.
The problem is the human race does not do anything until it’s too late and then they try to overreact and the crash has already occurred. This has occurred numerous times and once the sea life balance has been disrupted beyond repair then there’s nothing to stop it unless we re-plant species and shut down fisheries for many years. Overfishing, greed, corruption will destroy what’s left on this earth.
Everyone i know, including multiple family members that crab fished for years... have mostly quit over the last couple of years because they knew what was coming. Dealing with this crisis first hand.... they all say the same thing. The waters are too warm and the crabs are migrating further northwest into Russian waters. Many Russian outlets have also confirmed over the years that they are noticing more crabs being prevalent in their fishing grounds.
sorry Mate, but have you looked at a chart of the Bearing Sea? You do realize the Russa and US, EEZ is 200 NM, right? And that Russia is not north of Alaska!!!
@@thomastice9209 they are traveling northwest to the top side of russia.... not just west into russian waters BUT NORTH as well to the northern parts of Russias borders 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Everything moves in cycles. The crab have been here for thousands of years, they haven't gone anywhere. Spanish Mackerel haven't been around, caught or seen in 20 years where I live in NJ. Today they are showing up in large #'s along with large populations of Hickory Shad.
I remember in the 70s the scientists said we were heading into a ice age. The earths climate will change with or without humans. My orange tree didn’t produce any oranges this years. It’s a normal cycle of Mother Earth.
We’re already in the 6th mass extinction. We have created a single use and discard society completely dependent on burning carbons for fuel. We’re past the tipping point. I’m afraid for my children and grandchildren. When the permafrost melts it will be catastrophic for the whole planet.
@@KPassionate If I had known about climate change when I was young, I would never have brought children into this world. My youngest daughter is pregnant with her first child. I'm happy and terrified at the same time. One hope I hang onto is human ingenuity. Maybe, just maybe, mankind will make the changes necessary to prevent annihilation. I pray for it every day.
I've heard from other fishing industries that they found snow crabs in king crabs in the new area that they normally have never inhabited it's possible a lot of the crabs that they're considering may have turned around and migrated there because of the temperature changes in the water.
In the 1970s, info came out about heat island effect in cities causing many cities to actively participate in cool down projects by greening up with trees and grassy areas. We now need to green up farms across the midwest and western states. Just like how trees cool cities, cover crops between cash crops cool and keep in bare ground. Understanding Ag channel goes into details. Cover crops can also reduce runoff and reduce chemical inputs. Check out regenerative agriculture and Allan Savory's Ted talk.
No, Russian stocks are not decreasing at the same rate. There is speculation and investigations to see if many of the crabs migrated towards norther Russian waters.
Direct overfishing (taking too much of the target species out of the ocean) or Indirect overfishing (bycatch), pollution and other human effects on our home are having a terrible consequence on our home and everything on it. What to do about it is the hardest thing that can be done but it must be done. I like your impression of a Beluga at the end of the video.
The biggest current threat appears to be the super trawlers, huge factory ships with insanely large nets that just rip apart the sea floor and take everything. Smaller trawlers do damage the sea floor, but its like cutting paths through a forest, habit is lost and there are impacts, but overall the ecosystem can cope. Super trawlers are the equivalent of burning down the whole forest, every last tree. There is simply no way to recover from the damage they do and if they are running through the brine pools(targeting the species feeding on the juvenile crabs) then they could single handedly account for the population decline.
@@Jake12220 Super Trawlers are currently banned here in Australia due to an outcry from the public and the fishing industry. I hope that stays that way as Australia's Ocean Habitats are largely intact but under threat from over fishing, pollution and the changing climate.
@@Jake12220 We also have the problem of specie swapping. Where the target species reaches an almost extinction point and a new target species is targeted while the former target species 'recovers'.; which they rarely do.
One factor left out of your presentation. From 2015 to 2022, the season catch of Bristol Bay salmon has doubled and increased even more significantly since the start of the Snow Crab fishery. This is a huge increase in predation on juvenile crab. The king crab fishery collapse in the 1980s was partially attributed to data falsification of fisheries biologists who for years ignored migration data of tagged crab if the fisherman reported catching them outside of where the biologists "theories" indicated they "should" be. Yes, I knew fisherman who after a decade or more of being told they were lying just stopped bringing in tagged crab. I believe personalities are a bigger issue in the accuracy of fisheries science than is recognized within the scientific community. The king crab fishery around Kodiak has been closed since the 80s since it never recovered.
Very interesting about the salmon. I mean the reality is that it is of course a confluence of factors contributing to this. More than we will ever know.
@@KPassionate yes, a very complex and dynamic environment with a ton of interactions we have barely scratched the surface of. Change one variable and you never know where the ripple effects will settle.
I think the sockeye population soared but they eat zooplankton and krill. The other species of salmon have been going downhill for years. The by catch is in the Yukon and Kuskokwim River and the people who do it are not required to report their by catch, just their catch during commercial openings.
I wonder if the 400 tons/day of radioactive wastewater flowing into the ocean at Fukashima may have something to do with it. Have not heard what they are finding off Japan and other fisheries towards the east of Japan.
Sea otters can drive to 318 meters (maximum record depth). The average depth of the Bearing Sea is 1500 meters. Are you sure that lack of cold pool stops Otters from eating crabs? As for Government help, you cannot be an Alaskan GOP when anybody else, from farmers to hurricane victims, can use help. (I'm Taxed enough already, do not help anybody else) But the most liberal Democrat when your livelihood becomes endangered. I believe hypocrite might be the word I am looking for. Pick a side of the fence and support your beliefs through thick and thin. Besides, if the Snows go the way of the King crabs this will be a generational decline. Time to find another job, I would think. THIS I would support assistance to do.
I would like to learn more about the "snow crab is the canary in the coal mine" article you referenced around 10 minutes into your video.. you said that "many climate scientists are actually calling this the canary in the coal mine"... I read the entire article and found no scientists cited or referenced, the only person that had any references was the author of the article - Charles Pierce. Mr. Pierce was listed as an author and a journalist since 1976...I didn't see anything about him being a climate scientist. Can you give me the names of the many climate scientists that you referred to? I'd really like to read more of their articles so that I can get a better understanding of the problem. Thank you. Kindly, AJS
Thanks for watching! I appreciate your curiosity. The "canary in the coal mine" quote originally came from a researcher with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game during an interview with CBS that we also cited in the video. You can find that here → www.cbsnews.com/news/fishing-alaska-snow-crab-season-canceled-investigation-climate-change/ The science and research director of the agency’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center also used the same term when speaking to the Washington Post → www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/21/alaska-crab-climate/
@@DutcherDog She didn't at all say she doesn't know anything about crabs and crustaceans. She said they're not her main focus of expertise, which is just being honest. If you think you can make your living as a marine biologist (which she has done for decades outside of youtube) without learning anything about crustaceans, you're being ridiculous. That's like saying cardiologists don't know anything about the lungs or neurosurgeons don't know anything about the blood vessels in the extremities. So, so thick. LOL.
You can not shut down everything (fishing, use of fossil fuels) in just one country (USA) and expect the climate change issues to be solved! What are other big countries (China, Japan, India, etc. )with expanding economies doing in the face of climate change issues?????
We can all take individual action by limiting or eliminating fish, crustaceans and so on from our own diets. I never eat salmon because I know the bears and orcas need them and the runs have been devastated by overfishing and frequent climate crisis disasters destroying habitat or blocking migration routes. This year drought caused huge piles of salmon to die on dry land where there should have been full flowing creeks. And so on. We have to change while we demand our governments change too, and regulate the industries that cause most of global heating.
When I was in grad school in the1990s, the models were all showing that the strongest effects of climate-change would be near the poles, with the effects decreasing as you move equatorward. Also, the effects would be seen sooner the closer to the poles you were. According to the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for you readers who don't know], the Inuit and First-Nations living in northern Canada _have been seeing the changes happening_ that were predicted by the models back in the 1990s. I completely changed careers after getting my doctorate in 1998. Partly, to be with my now-husband [we've been together for 29 years now], and partly, because the jobs weren't there. That's why I always scream, "Liar!" any time I hear some idiot claiming that "global warming" is some sort of "scheme by scientists" to make money. The reality is that nobody wants to hear what the modelling and the data are telling us.
When they alter the data to fit their scientific theory it is called fraud. It's climate change when it's warm or when it's cold, when it's wet when it's dry, when the wind blows when the wind isn't blowing. It's the perfect scam. No matter what happens it's climate change. If it's a real emergency like they say it is, they would stop all use of fossil fuels. Every state would have a nuclear power plant under construction for all of the electricity we are going to need to replace that fossil fuel. California says that you have to drive an electric vehicle and then the next day they say don't charge your electric vehicle because we don't have the electricity to do that. The infrastructure and technology are not there yet for us to go 100% electric. The politician's make predictions that don't come true. Like al gore at the Nobel in 2007 said, all of the ice is going to melt and sea level is going to rise in seven years. The ice is still there. Obama says the same thing, yet he buys two multi million dollar mansions on the beach. And he installs the largest propane tank for a resident in the USA. Doesn't he know propane comes for crude oil. I think john kerry said it the best. At the U.N. he said that if the USA went to zero co2 output it would not make a difference in the world. I agree. We are doing our part. It's the rest of the world that isn't doing their part. biden shut down the oil pipeline, why doesn't he shut down the coal trains that go by my house three times a day. The coal goes to Delta British Columbia and is put on a ship to china. Another train goes along the Columbia river and the coal is loaded there for china. Why doesn't he shut them down? Where I live you can't cook or heat your house with natural gas. Everything has to be electric. So they have a natural gas generator on the waterfront to produce the electricity. Do you see the hypocrisy in all of this?
It’s a case of “don’t look up again”. The task is so gargantuan and expensive that no one wants to start or really commit to it. It’s funny how some people say efforts to slow climate change and cut co2 is too expensive, when dealing with the effects of it is much more expensive And is only going to keep getting worse, quite possibly to the point where we can’t live at all and we ALL die..you’d think that would be worth fighting for.
What l hate hearing is the climate alarmism that keeps getting pushed in the media and by activist groups. Climate change is a problem we should be dealing with, but climate alarmism is fear mongering and one of the many things screwing people up these days, it's also preventing a lot of the serious discussion that should be happening because it's polarising the public. Just to think, if the developed world had decided to improve and rollout a lot more nuclear power back in the 90's when we started getting widespread public concern about climate change we would now have actually achieved a lot of the goals they keep talking about for the future. We also wouldn't have destroyed huge areas of pristine wilderness by covering them with renewables or needed to destroy ground water supplies by fracking to get natural gas. There is such a massive divide between practical realities and the messages getting pushed by extremists, but sadly the media, politics and donations all prefer extreme views in order to create division and devotion.
@@jesse75 It’s because some of these topics I have never heard discussed other than on her channel for the first time. Would you care to know anything else? I can show you to your seat when you’re ready. You should stay there.
@@101Monieluv I've crabbed in the Bering Sea. Some crab boats prospect before the season starts to see where the crabs are located at. The crab fleet is in business to find where the crabs are. Fund them to find where they are. "To find where they are, find where they are not. "
When government workers do the counting, just remember the "mathematical" guide they used to give Veterans their so-called disability percentage ratings. 20 percent is equal to 5 percent, that's the mathematical equation of government.
@@jesse75 Actually lynxes are native to all the areas around the Bering Sea and even hunt by catching fish in the water, and they are alive when they swim in the water, so technically big cats do live in the Bering Sea. 😘
We had similar issues with the scallop industry here in Australia. Areas would have massive population declines so trawlers had to go further and further to catch them. A local association decided to create a no fish zone to help the population recover and the results were dramatic. It was working really well with increased numbers across the whole region, until trawlers from further away decided to clean out the no fish zone that had been set aside by the locals. Thankfully now the no fish zones are government enforced, but it was amazing how much damage could be done in an extremely short period of time. In the case of the crabs, l suspect it would only take a single super trawler, one of those factory ships with ridiculously huge nets that wipe the sea floor clean to have done all this damage. All it would take is one of those trawlers to go through the brine pools used by the young to decimate the population. I think the most likely the best solution to this problem would be to create a no fish strip that ran from below the current southern range to above the northern range. Only removing around 5-10% of the total area, but making it completely trawler free(surface or line fishing still allowable). So long as the area covered contained likely spawning and brood areas it sounds like the crabs would recover quickly given their reproductive potential. The only issue would be enforcing the no fish zone, especially against trawlers from other countries.
@@easternsun167 l get how they catch crabs, but the issue lm suggesting is bycatch, namely species that are caught that weren't specifically being targeted. Beyond that these massive trawlers dredge up the seafloor, completely destroying the environment which the crabs live in. Given the relatively small area where the juveniles mature, it wouldn't take all that much damage to make a massive impact on the population.
The Asians, they are wiping out many countries oceans resources by illegal fishing, until deadly force is issued, they will continue. It is the elephant in the room no one wants to deal with.
Part of it is due to overfishing but not by legal crab boats. It's China fishing boats that have been coming to American waters all year round dropping cages. There is no way for the coast guard or the navy to stop even half of them. My friend's dad worked on crab boats until he died last year, his last 20 years he was captain of a boat. He would always see Chinese boats illegally fishing in American waters but it was a waste of time to report. they would be long gone before anyone would send a boat or plane to check it out.
Dude I am sure Fukushima Japan 3;11/11 had nothing to heat the pacific ocean? (or radiation) I mean the currents run right to the Bering sea. The gift that keeps on giving!
The fishing industry spawned in an unnatural and unprecedented state of the north Pacific. It has always been unsustainable. Learned something new, as usual. Enjoyed the outtakes ending.
@@jesse75 Sir, please refer to the megafaunal collapse hypothesis and the N. American fur trade. Keystone species were removed prior to the industrial revolution when mechanized fishing arose and species interactions were changed from what they formerly had been for millions of years prior. This gave a false sense of abundance in some areas of the fishing industry as the interactions supporting a more balanced dynamic were no longer present. This applies primarily to the shelfish industry, but indirectly affects fin fish stocks as well. Now, when animals like the sea otter are reintroduced they are seen as threats to short term monetarily driven objectives, but in reality they are key to ensuring more long term stability. Glad you asked. "The wisdom and greatness of man will be measured not wholly by his technical power over the wild things of the earth, but also in his moral strength to let them be." -Victor B. Scheffer
@@corydalton7135 I see you know how to copy and paste. Who lived millions of years ago to come to such a conclusion ? Certainly not you, I admit it, so should people who wrote such nomenclature. I believe the fisherman who live on the fish. Who study water temperature and color. They are in business to find the fish. Why are Chum salmon prolific and Chinooks are not ? Ask a fisherman. He knows.
I’m glad you made this but I got to say Russia kept there snow crab session open and they seem to not be having a hard time geting them is it possible they moved or maybe they were checking populations in the wrong area we saw this in Canada a few years ago in Canada and the fishermen didn’t seem to have a issue finding them idk this doesn’t seem like they all just died off to me
@@DutcherDog maybe but I can’t see how Biden could force the hole state of Alaska to make up false numbers I hate Biden as much as the next guy but I just don’t see that happening
@@dragonflydreamer7658 there are plenty of crabs there are Dungeness crabs blue there still fishing for king grab in green land and Norway there not haveing a hard time with it
It rained where I live today . I blame climate change. It's also very warm for this time of year. Climate change. Getting much colder next week. Climate change. It fits everything, doesn't it?
Some people want to blame everything on climate change. Everything changes these ice packs have always moved and always will. Receding ice has uncovered many wonderful discoveries of previous inhabitants. Which tells me the ice wasn’t there when those people lived there.
In Australia, we have the spiny lobster march, starting on the southeastern coast of Australia and progressing to the Torres Straight at the tip of Australia and on to Papua New Guinea, with thousands of people catching spiny lobster and selling it at the market, very cheap. they then head toward Indonesia and just disappear, no one knows where they go, they just disappear but turn up the next year and do it all over again, including disappearing somewhere towards Indonesia
In the 1980's is when the fishing industry in Alaska expanded exponentially. I'm sure over fishing plays a part they just don't want to admit to it. A lot of extinctions are due to hunting/fishing.
I tend to agree. Snow crab was available everywhere at reasonable prices. The Asian Buffets around here included it in the price of dinner and lot of people, including myself, took advantage of it. However, in the back of my mind was the question "How is this sustainable?"
I told this to 30 or so people and no one seemed one bit concerned about it. I’m just proud to see that I’m not the only one that’s concerned with this.
Thanks for the great video as always Although this one was quite the bummer tho 😔 I know 90% is an insane amount but do you think there is any chance the species can recover?
Russian and Canadian populations are strong. This is NEVER MENTIONED Also, king crab is supposedly nearly extinct here, yet they claim it is invasive and out of control in Scandinavia. I'm afraid there may be some other factors involved, like not doing a proper count during COVID, or some sort of false reporting for marketing purposes.
@@KPassionate lol sorry for the confusion but from where I come from, when you know too much, you could get 💀 esp when it involves big people and stuff and issues like this.
The answer is simple greed of oil drilling in Alaska since America started exploiting Alaska for its natural resources the crabs are migrating away all live is running away from America except silly people hahahah
The loss of the "cold pool" opens up territory for cod predation. Ever seen a cod eat? They're like a vacuum cleaner...and they can eat a lot...and cod are flourishing.
I live in Seattle WA, and I personally have noticed a disturbing trend here. We are seeing thousands of juvenile crabs floating dead in the Puget sound and it's not just Seattle it's all over the Puget sound. Girlfriend shit just got real!
I farm in N TX and if we lose a crop due to weather or drought its not a problem to get assistance to keep our operation going for next year. How is crab fishing any different? Thx for sharing
I read something somewhere a few years ago from a reputable source -- possibly National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine or PBS -- about how disappearing glaciers in Alaska were actually benefitting the sea otter populations because it was opening up bays and fjords previously unavailable to them. It was chilling to read specific glaciers and how they had receded or disappeared, because [near to the time I read the article] I had just finished John Muir's "Travels in Alaska." John Muir was a geologist who specialized in studying glaciers, so he describes in great detail the size and location of glaciers that simply no longer exist. So I'm thinking that "melting glaciers opened up habitat for sea otters" is only half the story, since "opening that habitat" actually destroyed the necessary ecosystem for the species like Snow Crab who relied on that ice to keep predators away. And of course "climate change forcing prey species to deeper colder water, causing predator species to collapse" is happening globally. Recent starvation events in Brown Pelicans off the California coast and Little Blue Penguins are tentatively linked to a similar phenomenon. "What happens when the food moves due to climate change and you can't evolve fast enough to catch up" is a story shared by many species right now, and it's disturbing. The other disturbing thing is how warming temperatures are forcing some arctic species (like caribou) to stay at higher elevations. Caribou are a weird one, they won't come lower because warming has caused exploding mosquito populations -- mosquitoes are the pollinators of tge tubdra -- and because of competition for fewer food resources fewer calves are being born as their mothers simply reabsorb the ones they can't carry to term (that story is a chilling rabbit hole to go down...).
Changing climate will always have pros along with cons. We generally only hear about potential negative effects, but there has been lots of research done showing benefits for some species along with things like vast amounts of new farmland becoming viable in countries like Canada. Indeed it seems odd that Canada is so into avoiding climate change given that it would stand to benefit greatly in terms of economy from it. As for species being able to adapt, they have in previous warming and cooling periods, the only difference is that humans have also made drastic changes to a lot of the landscape (farming, clearing, cities and so on). It's one annoying aspects of the climate alarmism bs(not to be confused with the issue of climate change), they keep trying to remove the historically very well documented rapid warning periods from the records. No doubt many species suffered and they were never previously under the amount of human induced stress, including competition for habitat, but they have all previously survived far worse than the current situation and recovered.
Not sure where you're getting your information, but the data doesn't back up your claims and I do not have the time or mental bandwidth to explain why. We are actually historically supposed to be headed toward cyclical COOLING right now, and that "climate alarmism bs" is actually not even close to the level of alarm needed. And check your privilege, there are already millions of climate refugees from places either bring flooded or too dry to support life. Unless we shift quickly not just to "net zero" carbon but "net negative," we're staring down at broad spectrum ecosystem collapse globally. The canaries in the coal mine are all dead at this point. Life as we know it has not survived worse than this, not even close.
@@slipjones2 lm in Australia, so if anything l would be moving south, though north into the tropic zone would work just as well. Australia according to the modelling would be a mixed bag, some areas becoming far more habitable while others would be the opposite.
@@valstarkgraf l suspect your one of the people too far gone to listen to reason, but if your willing to challenge your views then check out bjorn lomborg, there is plenty on UA-cam or just google his take on the situation. He isn't trying to argue against the climate change situation, he just points out how incredibly stupid and ineffective the methods so far used have been if the goal is to deal with the problems. The difference between wanting to deal with climate change and climate alarmism is that one actually tries to deal with the problem and the other is panicking, making a lot of noise but achieving nothing useful.
That's because fish and game are morons, they survey the same areas year after year. The crab moved out of the survey areas and moved north. They have not all died off
This is really sad. I remember spending evenings at the docks in Haines AK having crab feasts with the fishermen. Those crabs were so big that they easily fed a couple of people. That was in the late 1970s. The ocean was healthier then.
I worked briefly in AK, Bristol Bay 2012. Trident Seafoods. 🔱 salmon were all shapes, sizes, conditions. Some looked healthy clean, strong. Others were BAD. Sick, diseased. Seafood in AK PNW areas 🎣 should be moderated, restrained for the next 4-6 seasons. The fish 🦀🦞🦐 need time to re populate.
Do u understand how cold pressurized gas is and your just drilling and pumping all the cold gas out of the ground and you question why ice is melting lol use your brain pressured gas is cold and talking it out the ground makes warm pockets
Many have proposed alternative explanations for the snow crab disappearance, such as Fukushima and poaching from China or Russia, and I respond to those in this video here → ua-cam.com/video/hJiqIuM2aVs/v-deo.html
HERES ONE THE CALDERA rather then worrying about how far the sun is away from us. a local vent opened just south of Alaska.. that is what is warming the water. concerning climate change you need a longer test sample, that means rather then a hot time coming we are at the beginning of the next ice age.. real science not speculation have a better day
Maybe " bycatch" needs to be considered poaching!?!
@@graffic13 potentially!
@@internetkilledthetv549 yeah dummy. The ice age is due to warming. Why? Because when it's cold you have snow. When it warms up you have ice. End of discussion.
Idiots... smh.
@@KPassionate Negative. What needs to happen is to.ha e a program like we do with cheese. Kind of anyways. When the populations are booming, we need to CATCH A LOT MORE CRABS! FREEZE THEM IN HUGE STORAGE FREEZERS. Then in times like these we can have steady supplies and prices.
Also, the democrats have got to go. They manipulate and lie about everything. It's really sad and pathetic.
A big thank-you to Soup, Blarg, McNasty, TheDooo and SwaggerSouls for bringing this to our attention
My favorite breaking crab character is Mike Hermitcrab
i was just gonna say 😂😂
Real
Commercial fishing is one of the only real reasons for many of the remote communities throughout the Aleutian chain and the Alaskan coastline, you're talking about a lot more than just commercial fisherman and their families, you're talking about the existence of remote communities in Alaska.
Yea,it's tough,but when the crabs are gone it's time to look for a different occupation.Same thing happened to logging.
@@johnjaco5544 Same thing is happening to workers in the fossil fuel industry.
I’ve lived in anchorage for 35 yrs. The only difference is glaciers have receded. Far as the temperature of air it’s still on point take for example, the past 3 winters now today it’s 2 degrees. , it’s been the same the past several yrs. The summers are if not warmer only yr it was abnormally warm was 2019 July it hit the 80’s. Besides that it’s been normal mid to upper 60’s but less than 5 days in low 70’s. This is anchorage Kenai area Fairbanks gets warmer cause there 500 miles inland more than half you people have no clue to what your talking about. By-catch is what is ruining the population of all fish. Go research that!!
This is a huge crisis. Yes, we all love crabs but their disappearance effects multiple strands on the food chain. Shortages of many fish that humans eat will soon become scarce too.😔
Not because of over fishing/crabbing but by the Government. FJB
@@tixximmi1 🤣
@@realtalk37851 It's true. Who stopped the fishing/crabbing? The Government. How many fires and explosions have Food production/distibution plants destroy these past 2 yeas. (over 600) How many do we usually average per year? (less than 10) Do you think this is all a coincident? And now a railroad strike.
I wish people would stop with the fear mongering.
These crabs aren't " gone " they just aren't in their normal spots. Do you need a hint? A hurricane just went through there, yes it's odd but it's true. As was above, so is below. You don't see a bunch of birds flying around in tornados, nor do you see dolphins jumping around the oceans of Florida when a hurricane goes through there. Animals know when the tides are changing and they get out of the way. Yes it sucks that the big dollar season is shot to hell in a hand basket, but some things just need to be recognized. Next season will ( should ) be a bombshell of a season. This would be a great time to prepare for it, buy another boat or 10, male sure your nets/baskets are in serviceable condition, fill the fuel tanks.... put the work in that is constantly put on the back burner because there is no time for it, you have a whole season of down time.
wonderful video KP! I wonder if a species of predator has adapted their diets to crab, possible due to losing their usual prey, or possibly a boom in a predator species like octopuses or sleeper sharks?
Great question! I have seen some reports that the warming waters and subsequent shift of the cold pool has exposed juvenile crabs to the adults who are engaging in cannibalism.
@@KPassionate The warming waters caused that, did they? Care to share the source of these learned reports?
@@thomass5169 they are all in the description of the video as in all of my videos. Happy reading.
@@KPassionate Don't you think you are a little too quick to blame "man-made global warming"?
@@thomass5169 no
Woah, crabs don't live anywhere. They constantly migrate and are scavengers. They likely migrated to colder water.....if it exist
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I have no idea where they went. Now where is that tanker full of butter I ordered?
Watch a world travelling motorcyclist. She's in Alaska, stopped at a little restaurant. She had 1 crab leg. One. $75.
Wow!
Thanks for the video, an update
Thanks for watching!!
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Thanks! We make a ton of shorts too but we will keep at it! We are relatively new to this and have only just really gotten the hang of it. If you scroll back through videos you’ll find we have gotten much better over the last few months! I appreciate the feedback. Stay tuned for Saturday’s video! It’s going to be fire!
@@KPassionate Sorry for being presumptuous; it will hit a point and take off hopefully sooner than later! I am glad I came across it.
@@semperfidelis1550 not at all! I appreciate your feedback 💙
Don't ignore the Chinese fishing fleets that are emptying the world's oceans worldwide, illegally.
Their massive ships are working in no - fishing zones along South America's western shores.
If this is the case, why are Russian and Canadian stock unaffected?
Sounds like blaming the boogyman.
@@clista4 Sounds like you're a member of the CCP.
@@drawyrral just mentioning some inconvenient facts about Russia and Canada
China and Japan are the biggest ocean poacher. There’s should be an Oceanic regulation to hold countries like China and Japan accountable.
My grandfather was a trawler skipper out of Grimsby from the late 30’s to the 70’s .They killed the sea floor with their trawling
Bottom trawling is awful for sure
They dont trawl. Crabs are caught by baited metal traps like lobsters…
John didn’t say they trawl for crabs
@@alexandrawhitelock6195 lmao
Crabbing isn't trawling. I personally think trawling should be illegal, but the trawlers are a wealthy group with plenty of dough for lawyers.
Crabs haven't necessarily disappeared, officials just don't know where they are. Assuming what she says is true and that many sea creatures feed on snow crab then watch those populations, if they don't decline then that suggests the crabs are somewhere nobody expects them to be.
But that’s not a dooms da message so they won’t promote that. Collapse sounds so much better by these people.
Takes too long. Do both. Cancel now and study all of it.
Sig will find them.
Ya I think they all just migrated north where it's colder
@@johnboylong40 cool conspiracy bro
Please check on the underwater volcano activity in the migration path(s) of the Snow Crabs, it is a very interesting read
Interesting, but nothing new. These vents have been going for years.
More volcanic activity than usual? Makes sense that it would have some bearing on crab migration.
Fishermen in Newfoundland Canada can tell you all about over fishing. They, along with European Fishing trawler, wiped out their Cod Fishery in the early eighties.
It Still hasn't recovered.
Breaking crab
I don't think the crabs died or disappeared, they simple moved north to colder waters.
As fellow marine biologist George Costanza said, the sea was angry that day.
It's over fishing and destruction of spawning beds. They always get some one to say it wasn't.
Instead of just subsidizing the crews to sit around waiting for nature to solve the problem, we should offer them retraining and education to help design and build mitigating solutions. Hatcheries and such should be built as a partial solution, to take advantage of what little genetic diversity is still left after 90% of the population is already gone. We need to use our brains and our backs to do whatever we can, and I'm pretty sure that all these idled fisherman would rather be part of the solution than sitting around waiting for a subsidy check.
I love this as a solution! Thanks for this positive comment
Fisherman have been idled everywhere around America. Even here in Hawaii, the commercial fishing industry is smaller than it used to be. Retraining into some other industry is much easier said than done. Most especially in Alaska, where other jobs are ver hard to find because it lacks an industrial base. More than 15 years after the King crab fishery collapse, that fishery has still not recovered. So recovery of the fishery is not very promising. But something must be done to start mitigating the effects climate change.
I love this idea. We need to rewild much of the planet.
However the conservative government of Alaska, run by those that actively seek to destroy nature, will never do that.
Ridiculous lib thinking !
Can these crabs even be spawned in a hatchery? I honestly don't know but I do know that a number of other marine species have been tried with no success in that type of process. Its nearly impossible to match the natural habitats, the ecosystems that various parts of their life cycles depend on for many fish and crustaceans. Farming can also have its own negative effects, for example salmon farms have been known to encourage diseases that are both negative to the farmed fish but also have potential to spread to wild populations. Farming can also cause depletion of other species because of waste concentrations and simply the volume of food that must be caught and processed to feed the farmed fish which in turn has its own impacts. If its possible then it could help but the idea that marine species can simply be hatched out and grown like trout or salmon is not always possible and certainly isn't a given. The fact that this points to the sea algea in ice and the pockets of cold water they need and with a species found in depths of hundreds of feet there's at least a reasonable chance that aquaculture isn't an answer to the issue. Besides which NOAA and NMFS have shown in many fisheries that there's a huge disconnect between the actual data, the collection methods and the other data forms used in calculating fishery populations, let alone the reasoning for it. The story thats been around from a while back was that they were sampling and the ship was dragging nets here on the east coast and were causing great concern because nearly nothing was being caught suggesting a massive collapse. It was finally realized that they had rigged the otter boards wrong and the net was closing itself up instead holding the net open and in turn caused that lack of catches. Its also the same organization that has said large amounts of fish were landed by the fleet based on the surveys of fishermen they took, yet due to the impacts of weather and a destructive storm, there was basically zero fishing done. Hard to justify the fleet catching tons of fish when they were all tied to the docks and shows just how bad the mix of poor science and mystical voodoo used to develop some of the numbers was. I can't say that its the same here but most fishermen who stay abreast of fisheries management take the NOAA data with a large grain of salt as we have seen its massive flaws many times.
We used to catch 50-70 pound lake trout until the lake was over fished within 5 years. We now only see 5-15 pounders.
So sad 😞
Part of that has to do with forced evolution in fishes caused by throw back laws
I.E. an adult fish that's smaller than the law says to keep, it gets thrown back, and then it reproduces and carrys on traits that favor being a small adult fish instead of a large adult fish
@@ryanrodriguez2660 ah yes! Interesting point. In Lobster fishing it’s actually the bigger ones that you aren’t allowed to keep.
@@ryanrodriguez2660
It's a lake, the number of large fish the op speaks of in the past was very finite.
If the water is overfished once those lunkers are gone the next size range that would make it to that giant size is instead caught and removed.
We don't know if throwbacks are "smaller potential adults" or not. Could they be large immatures? Is the size limit set right at the common size they fullt mature at? Etc.
Evolution by yardstick
To begin, I'd like to explain a little about the life cycle of crabs, generally. Crabs are born from nearly microscopic eggs. Mature female crabs will migrate very slowly and methodically up-slope and up-current into relatively warmer and shallower waters to release their eggs by the tens-of-thousands during mid-spring to coincide with the spring algae-blooms (just like flowers bloom on land during spring-time, algae blooms in the oceans). Her hope is: the warm spring currents are going to push her eggs down-current and towards the sea-bed where, hopefully, some of those eggs will get stuck to some of that sticky algae that is growing on a rock on the sea-floor. A VERY tiny percentage of her eggs will actually have this happen (and, of the tiny percentage that find their way into an algae growth, only a very small percentage will survive long enough to develop sufficient locomotion and metabolic processes to continue development). But, those lucky few - they get to nom-nom on some algae for a couple of years while they grow from microscopic, to sort-of-scopic, to that tiny thing looks more like a dime-sized clam than a crab, to something about the size of a U.S.-quarter that actually has a shape that closely resembles and very tiny little crab. Now comes the next stage: up until this point, our baby-crab has just been sucking algae off the rock it was born on (very similar to how an "algae-eater" eats algae of the side of fish-tank). But, now, this baby-crab can't just survive on algae. It's very similar to the stage where a new-born needs something more than formula or breast-milk. It's time for the crab to start eating some solid foods. So the crab, first, has to get off the rock and find a sandy/muddy sea-floor. Assuming it makes it that far, the crab will start to do this very slow, weird "shimmy" through the mud/sand in which it moves very slowly BACKWARDS and uses its wide, flat, rounded body to physically separate the heavier sand/mud and other non-biological particulates from the lighter decaying-biological matter that has sedimented (I prefer to say: "sedimentized" because it sounds waaaay cooler) on upper layer of the ocean-shelf. Occasionally, some other small floor-dwelling organisms will "smell" (it's actually a form of taste, but it makes more sense to our human faculties to associate the reaction with that of human-scent) the little bits of decaying "food" that the growing crab is kicking up and the will come to investigate. This is EXCELLENT, assuming they're not too large, because our growing little crab will let these little "sea-worms" crawl right onto his/her belly while they are trying to score a free-meal - and then our baby-crab will slurp them down like Timone and Simba slurped down grubs in the original Lion King. This works great for a year or two. Until our crab gets to be about the diameter of a soda-can. Now, just like a baby can't live on baby-food forever, it's time for the crab to go find real food.
The next stage of a crab's diet is: Mollusks. Mollusks (technically: mollusca) are basically any invertebrates that have evolutionarily developed a big, hard shell to protect them from predators (that's a dramatic over-simplification; but the point is true-enough.) On land, you've got snails (Snails are just worms that have evolved to have shells that are too heavy, bulky, and strong for birds to prey on them). In the ocean, there are LOTS of mollusks - think of clams - but there are LOTS more. In the same way snails have protected themselves from birds, most sea-dwelling mollusks are pretty-well defended against fish. But crabs have a secret strategy. Crabs will crawl over top of a mollusk, cover it with it's big, wide crab-body and proceed to literally smoother the mollusk into the sand/mud. This can take a little while. In some cases, it can take MONTHS for a mollusk to suffocate. But that's what crabs do. They will hold a mollusk it's shell-opening pinned into the mud for months until they can "smell" (again, like my first-post, it's actually taste; but you get the idea...) that the mollusk is dead. And then they will stick their mouths into the mollusk and sit there for weeks and slowly shake the shell back and forth while the crab nom-noms on the all the yummy goodness as the mollusks inside the shell slowly breaks apart and floats into our kid-crab's hungry "mouth" (crabs don't really have a "mouth"; it's basically an underwater version of what a spider has.)
Before I discuss crabs any further, I want to revert back to the story being discussed here: the apparent mass-crab de-population event currently being observed in observed portions of the Bering Sea. Something to keep in mind, most crabs, like most crustaceans, cannot be accurately and reliably aged by known methods. Lobsters are another great example. We literally have NO IDEA what the life-expectancy of a lobster is, nor what it might, theoretically, be (because nearly ALL dead lobster we have observed in the environment are very apparently the result of externalities). If a Lobster has food, properly oxygenated and salinitized water of appropriate temperature and depth, is not killed by predators or externalities - many biologists believe that some lobsters can live for more than 1,000 years - and that's just a guess - because we don't have a clue. But, with Lobsters, we can estimate the number of times that a lobster has malted. Crabs don't malt. With crabs, we literally cannot tell if a crab is 5 years old, 15 years old, 50 years old, or 500. We are currently unaware of any mechanism that we can use to differentiate or estimate the age of a crab. We have determined that crabs, again, like other crustaceans, achieve physiological development primarily as the result of nutrient uptake rather than age. Which is a scientific way of saying: a crab that is 2 years old but has eaten 5x more than a second crab, will likely present closely to that second crap if that second crap is 10 years old.
This is TREMENDOUSLY important because, our primary source of data on Crab populations is the result of crabs that we remove (either commercially or scientifically) from fisheries and refuges (some of which are returned and some of which are harvested). And we only observe (generally) crabs which are of large enough size to be unable to easily escape from sea-floor traps. Even the portion of the crab-population that is commonly classified as "juvenile specimens" by researchers are crabs so large that we do not believe that any of those specimens have been spawned within the last 4 years and possibly, the youngest crabs we regularly see and analyze may reflect the survivors of a spawn-cycle which, on average, occurred 7-8 years ago.
This might make more sense: when fishermen and researchers did the "Crab-census" (the count of the crabs), we saw a definitive spike in Juvenile crabs during 2016, 2017, and 2018. But those "Juvenile" crabs, were definitely at least a 3-5 years old at the time they were big enough to start coming up in the traps. Which means: whatever caused that spike, was an anomaly that didn't occur in 2016-18; but when those crabs were spawned. So: something happened between 2008-2015 (and, quite likely, this anomaly was a multi-season event), that caused A LOT of crabs to successfully spawn and mature into juveniles (which we then observed - years later). But, between 2021-2022, a HUGE percentage of those juveniles disappeared. We have preliminary data which suggests a decrease in the Bering-Sea crab-population that, at least at current estimates, is best defined as anomolectic [sometimes termed: anomalistic]. That anomolectic data should not be dissociated from the anomolectic data observed several years ago unless sufficient evidence is presented to support such a dissociation. Until then, researchers ought to suspect that the two anomalies are linked (we shouldn't assume they're linked - but we should acknowledge and suspect it). We are not necessarily looking for an anomaly that occurred in the last couple of years. We need to start at the beginning. We need to be looking at the data beginning all the way back nearly 15 years ago.
Thanks for all the information!!
The problem is the human race does not do anything until it’s too late and then they try to overreact and the crash has already occurred. This has occurred numerous times and once the sea life balance has been disrupted beyond repair then there’s nothing to stop it unless we re-plant species and shut down fisheries for many years. Overfishing, greed, corruption will destroy what’s left on this earth.
Costco was literally selling $400 boxes of wild caught king crab 2 months ago...
Everyone i know, including multiple family members that crab fished for years... have mostly quit over the last couple of years because they knew what was coming. Dealing with this crisis first hand.... they all say the same thing. The waters are too warm and the crabs are migrating further northwest into Russian waters. Many Russian outlets have also confirmed over the years that they are noticing more crabs being prevalent in their fishing grounds.
Interesting insight! Thank you
sorry Mate, but have you looked at a chart of the Bearing Sea? You do realize the Russa and US, EEZ is 200 NM, right? And that Russia is not north of Alaska!!!
@@thomastice9209 they are traveling northwest to the top side of russia.... not just west into russian waters BUT NORTH as well to the northern parts of Russias borders 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The 1980s are when the US offshore fishing industry in Alaska expanded exponentially. Much more tonnage of vessels was built for those fisheries.
Everything moves in cycles. The crab have been here for thousands of years, they haven't gone anywhere. Spanish Mackerel haven't been around, caught or seen in 20 years where I live in NJ. Today they are showing up in large #'s along with large populations of Hickory Shad.
I remember in the 70s the scientists said we were heading into a ice age.
The earths climate will change with or without humans.
My orange tree didn’t produce any oranges this years.
It’s a normal cycle of Mother Earth.
We’re already in the 6th mass extinction. We have created a single use and discard society completely dependent on burning carbons for fuel. We’re past the tipping point. I’m afraid for my children and grandchildren. When the permafrost melts it will be catastrophic for the whole planet.
Part of the reason I have decided not to have kids
@@KPassionate If I had known about climate change when I was young, I would never have brought children into this world. My youngest daughter is pregnant with her first child. I'm happy and terrified at the same time. One hope I hang onto is human ingenuity. Maybe, just maybe, mankind will make the changes necessary to prevent annihilation. I pray for it every day.
You're delusional
Game over when we lose the arctic ice in the coming summers
interesting times, ominous signs
Agreed!
If there was a die off, there should be a lot of crabs showing up on the shores, show the dead crabs.
I said disappeared. And talked about how they moved to colder waters. Also only a small portion of things that die wash ashore.
I think all the snow crabs went deep down in the sea and all united into a giant snow crab sea monster
Love that for them 😂
I've heard from other fishing industries that they found snow crabs in king crabs in the new area that they normally have never inhabited it's possible a lot of the crabs that they're considering may have turned around and migrated there because of the temperature changes in the water.
That’s what I say in the video
Makes perfect sense
In the 1970s, info came out about heat island effect in cities causing many cities to actively participate in cool down projects by greening up with trees and grassy areas. We now need to green up farms across the midwest and western states. Just like how trees cool cities, cover crops between cash crops cool and keep in bare ground. Understanding Ag channel goes into details. Cover crops can also reduce runoff and reduce chemical inputs. Check out regenerative agriculture and Allan Savory's Ted talk.
Love this idea of more greenery! And we need to hold big companies responsible for their carbon footprints!
My intuition is that this is a linear solution to a problem that’s growing exponentially.
@@deelowe3 quite possibly
Yet no one is addressing the fact that Russian crab fishing has increased 10 fold in the same area!
No, Russian stocks are not decreasing at the same rate. There is speculation and investigations to see if many of the crabs migrated towards norther Russian waters.
She did address it and said that was the Environmentalists argument, that although very compelling was not exactly correct.
Btw my favorite breaking crab character is Mike Hermitcrab
This is all bull
I'm so glad there's a lot of people helpfully explaining your content to you before they watch it.
Sooooo helpful lol
Actually the comments are very informative.
Chum salmon pop in Yukon river collapsed about 2 weeks before the snow crabs went missing. Both dependent on cold glacial fed waters.
Interesting! Thank you
Direct overfishing (taking too much of the target species out of the ocean) or Indirect overfishing (bycatch), pollution and other human effects on our home are having a terrible consequence on our home and everything on it. What to do about it is the hardest thing that can be done but it must be done.
I like your impression of a Beluga at the end of the video.
The biggest current threat appears to be the super trawlers, huge factory ships with insanely large nets that just rip apart the sea floor and take everything.
Smaller trawlers do damage the sea floor, but its like cutting paths through a forest, habit is lost and there are impacts, but overall the ecosystem can cope. Super trawlers are the equivalent of burning down the whole forest, every last tree. There is simply no way to recover from the damage they do and if they are running through the brine pools(targeting the species feeding on the juvenile crabs) then they could single handedly account for the population decline.
@@Jake12220 Super Trawlers are currently banned here in Australia due to an outcry from the public and the fishing industry. I hope that stays that way as Australia's Ocean Habitats are largely intact but under threat from over fishing, pollution and the changing climate.
@@Jake12220 We also have the problem of specie swapping. Where the target species reaches an almost extinction point and a new target species is targeted while the former target species 'recovers'.; which they rarely do.
One factor left out of your presentation. From 2015 to 2022, the season catch of Bristol Bay salmon has doubled and increased even more significantly since the start of the Snow Crab fishery. This is a huge increase in predation on juvenile crab. The king crab fishery collapse in the 1980s was partially attributed to data falsification of fisheries biologists who for years ignored migration data of tagged crab if the fisherman reported catching them outside of where the biologists "theories" indicated they "should" be. Yes, I knew fisherman who after a decade or more of being told they were lying just stopped bringing in tagged crab. I believe personalities are a bigger issue in the accuracy of fisheries science than is recognized within the scientific community. The king crab fishery around Kodiak has been closed since the 80s since it never recovered.
Very interesting about the salmon. I mean the reality is that it is of course a confluence of factors contributing to this. More than we will ever know.
@@KPassionate yes, a very complex and dynamic environment with a ton of interactions we have barely scratched the surface of. Change one variable and you never know where the ripple effects will settle.
I think the sockeye population soared but they eat zooplankton and krill. The other species of salmon have been going downhill for years. The by catch is in the Yukon and Kuskokwim River and the people who do it are not required to report their by catch, just their catch during commercial openings.
Funny thing about how I found this video...
The humbolt squid was found in the bearing sea for the 1st time in 2019. They are fast breaders and voracious crustacean eaters
Congratulations 🎉on becoming a Hollywood starlet🌟!
Makes me wonder about the health of other crab populations...
Especially the Dungeness in NorCal
Well, there’s one particular species that is going extinct due to humanity’s recent grooming habits.
@@mmaaddict78 Correct - there's crabs, and then there's more crabs.
I wonder if the 400 tons/day of radioactive wastewater flowing into the ocean at Fukashima may have something to do with it. Have not heard what they are finding off Japan and other fisheries towards the east of Japan.
Sea otters can drive to 318 meters (maximum record depth). The average depth of the Bearing Sea is 1500 meters. Are you sure that lack of cold pool stops Otters from eating crabs? As for Government help, you cannot be an Alaskan GOP when anybody else, from farmers to hurricane victims, can use help. (I'm Taxed enough already, do not help anybody else) But the most liberal Democrat when your livelihood becomes endangered. I believe hypocrite might be the word I am looking for. Pick a side of the fence and support your beliefs through thick and thin. Besides, if the Snows go the way of the King crabs this will be a generational decline. Time to find another job, I would think. THIS I would support assistance to do.
I would like to learn more about the "snow crab is the canary in the coal mine" article you referenced around 10 minutes into your video.. you said that "many climate scientists are actually calling this the canary in the coal mine"... I read the entire article and found no scientists cited or referenced, the only person that had any references was the author of the article - Charles Pierce. Mr. Pierce was listed as an author and a journalist since 1976...I didn't see anything about him being a climate scientist. Can you give me the names of the many climate scientists that you referred to? I'd really like to read more of their articles so that I can get a better understanding of the problem. Thank you. Kindly, AJS
Thanks for watching! I appreciate your curiosity. The "canary in the coal mine" quote originally came from a researcher with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game during an interview with CBS that we also cited in the video. You can find that here → www.cbsnews.com/news/fishing-alaska-snow-crab-season-canceled-investigation-climate-change/
The science and research director of the agency’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center also used the same term when speaking to the Washington Post → www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/21/alaska-crab-climate/
@@KPassionate Thank you for the prompt response! I will check out both of those links, I appreciate the follow up. Kind Regards, AJS.
Thanks KP - I was curious about this collapse and your explanation, as always, is thorough and well-considered.
Thanks for watching!!
Is it, is it really?
Well considered? cLImAtE ChaNgE!~!@
No it’s not . She said at the beginning she doesn’t know anything about crabs !!! She’s a UA-cam personality that makes a living talking !
@@DutcherDog She didn't at all say she doesn't know anything about crabs and crustaceans. She said they're not her main focus of expertise, which is just being honest. If you think you can make your living as a marine biologist (which she has done for decades outside of youtube) without learning anything about crustaceans, you're being ridiculous. That's like saying cardiologists don't know anything about the lungs or neurosurgeons don't know anything about the blood vessels in the extremities. So, so thick. LOL.
Anyone else here bc of thedooo?
Yeah we all are
We're witnessing the collapse of the marine food chain. It's only a matter of time for us.
Yes it is
Thanks China
@@starmc26 WTFO?
@@mojrimibnharb4584 Are you dense???.... CHINA IS THE PROBLEM... So is INDIA!!!... You are obviously disconnected from reality.
You can not shut down everything (fishing, use of fossil fuels) in just one country (USA) and expect the climate change issues to be solved! What are other big countries (China, Japan, India, etc. )with expanding economies doing in the face of climate change issues?????
OK GREAT... maybe the Russians will have a GREAT crab fishing season!
We can all take individual action by limiting or eliminating fish, crustaceans and so on from our own diets. I never eat salmon because I know the bears and orcas need them and the runs have been devastated by overfishing and frequent climate crisis disasters destroying habitat or blocking migration routes. This year drought caused huge piles of salmon to die on dry land where there should have been full flowing creeks. And so on. We have to change while we demand our governments change too, and regulate the industries that cause most of global heating.
Only a matter of time before Soylent Green becomes a major source of protein in out diet... ;-)
@@grahamstrouse1165 Thats ok..over population should have it's price ! lol
Meanwhile in Japan....💀🐋🐬🐟=🍙🤣
When I was in grad school in the1990s, the models were all showing that the strongest effects of climate-change would be near the poles, with the effects decreasing as you move equatorward. Also, the effects would be seen sooner the closer to the poles you were.
According to the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for you readers who don't know], the Inuit and First-Nations living in northern Canada _have been seeing the changes happening_ that were predicted by the models back in the 1990s.
I completely changed careers after getting my doctorate in 1998. Partly, to be with my now-husband [we've been together for 29 years now], and partly, because the jobs weren't there. That's why I always scream, "Liar!" any time I hear some idiot claiming that "global warming" is some sort of "scheme by scientists" to make money. The reality is that nobody wants to hear what the modelling and the data are telling us.
When they alter the data to fit their scientific theory it is called fraud. It's climate change when it's warm or when it's cold, when it's wet when it's dry, when the wind blows when the wind isn't blowing. It's the perfect scam. No matter what happens it's climate change. If it's a real emergency like they say it is, they would stop all use of fossil fuels. Every state would have a nuclear power plant under construction for all of the electricity we are going to need to replace that fossil fuel. California says that you have to drive an electric vehicle and then the next day they say don't charge your electric vehicle because we don't have the electricity to do that. The infrastructure and technology are not there yet for us to go 100% electric. The politician's make predictions that don't come true. Like al gore at the Nobel in 2007 said, all of the ice is going to melt and sea level is going to rise in seven years. The ice is still there. Obama says the same thing, yet he buys two multi million dollar mansions on the beach. And he installs the largest propane tank for a resident in the USA. Doesn't he know propane comes for crude oil. I think john kerry said it the best. At the U.N. he said that if the USA went to zero co2 output it would not make a difference in the world. I agree. We are doing our part. It's the rest of the world that isn't doing their part. biden shut down the oil pipeline, why doesn't he shut down the coal trains that go by my house three times a day. The coal goes to Delta British Columbia and is put on a ship to china. Another train goes along the Columbia river and the coal is loaded there for china. Why doesn't he shut them down? Where I live you can't cook or heat your house with natural gas. Everything has to be electric. So they have a natural gas generator on the waterfront to produce the electricity. Do you see the hypocrisy in all of this?
They have been seeing the ice receed since the ice bridge disappeared. But climate change is man made narrative...
It’s a case of “don’t look up again”. The task is so gargantuan and expensive that no one wants to start or really commit to it. It’s funny how some people say efforts to slow climate change and cut co2 is too expensive, when dealing with the effects of it is much more expensive And is only going to keep getting worse, quite possibly to the point where we can’t live at all and we ALL die..you’d think that would be worth fighting for.
What l hate hearing is the climate alarmism that keeps getting pushed in the media and by activist groups. Climate change is a problem we should be dealing with, but climate alarmism is fear mongering and one of the many things screwing people up these days, it's also preventing a lot of the serious discussion that should be happening because it's polarising the public.
Just to think, if the developed world had decided to improve and rollout a lot more nuclear power back in the 90's when we started getting widespread public concern about climate change we would now have actually achieved a lot of the goals they keep talking about for the future. We also wouldn't have destroyed huge areas of pristine wilderness by covering them with renewables or needed to destroy ground water supplies by fracking to get natural gas. There is such a massive divide between practical realities and the messages getting pushed by extremists, but sadly the media, politics and donations all prefer extreme views in order to create division and devotion.
@@Jake12220 I don’t think anyones being extremist when we’re literally in an EXTREME situation. We only have one earth, one home.
Thank you for always feeding us this great information. Some of these topics I wouldn’t know about on my own.
Glad it was helpful!
Why ? Cause you can't interpret or read the data for yourself ?
@@jesse75 It’s because some of these topics I have never heard discussed other than on her channel for the first time. Would you care to know anything else? I can show you to your seat when you’re ready. You should stay there.
@@101Monieluv I've crabbed in the Bering Sea.
Some crab boats prospect before the season starts to see where the crabs are located at.
The crab fleet is in business to find where the crabs are.
Fund them to find where they are.
"To find where they are, find where they are not. "
@@jesse75 That sounds reasonable for the layman. Your comment is irrelevant and unproductive.
I learned this from TheDooo, Blarg, Swaggersouls, And McNasty....
When government workers do the counting, just remember the "mathematical" guide they used to give Veterans their so-called disability percentage ratings. 20 percent is equal to 5 percent, that's the mathematical equation of government.
Thank you for your super educational and fun videos! I want to be an animal behaviorist as well, but with big cats. ❤
That was my original dream!!! You got this!
Big cats don't live in the Bering Sea.
@@jesse75 Actually lynxes are native to all the areas around the Bering Sea and even hunt by catching fish in the water, and they are alive when they swim in the water, so technically big cats do live in the Bering Sea. 😘
@@shivermetreason7592 think about what you said. Ridiculous.
They don't live in the Sea. Get real.
We had similar issues with the scallop industry here in Australia. Areas would have massive population declines so trawlers had to go further and further to catch them.
A local association decided to create a no fish zone to help the population recover and the results were dramatic. It was working really well with increased numbers across the whole region, until trawlers from further away decided to clean out the no fish zone that had been set aside by the locals. Thankfully now the no fish zones are government enforced, but it was amazing how much damage could be done in an extremely short period of time.
In the case of the crabs, l suspect it would only take a single super trawler, one of those factory ships with ridiculously huge nets that wipe the sea floor clean to have done all this damage. All it would take is one of those trawlers to go through the brine pools used by the young to decimate the population.
I think the most likely the best solution to this problem would be to create a no fish strip that ran from below the current southern range to above the northern range. Only removing around 5-10% of the total area, but making it completely trawler free(surface or line fishing still allowable). So long as the area covered contained likely spawning and brood areas it sounds like the crabs would recover quickly given their reproductive potential. The only issue would be enforcing the no fish zone, especially against trawlers from other countries.
They don't use nets to catch crab in Alaska .
@@easternsun167 l get how they catch crabs, but the issue lm suggesting is bycatch, namely species that are caught that weren't specifically being targeted. Beyond that these massive trawlers dredge up the seafloor, completely destroying the environment which the crabs live in. Given the relatively small area where the juveniles mature, it wouldn't take all that much damage to make a massive impact on the population.
The Asians, they are wiping out many countries oceans resources by illegal fishing, until deadly force is issued, they will continue. It is the elephant in the room no one wants to deal with.
@@Jake12220 They don't use bottom dredgers in 800 feet of water either.
Trawlers are so destructive of entire ecosystems wherever they go. Short term profit, longer term collapse.
How do we know we're not getting lied to if nobody is out there fishing??? I think the whole thing is very suspect.
More climate scam propaganda?
Isn't it sad that we live in a world where your question is 100% reasonable?
We don't. And Russia didn't close their crab season. Production is about the same they say.
They burn down our food plants, have the railroads stop transporting fertilizer. Why not say, no crabbing. Just like the CDC. You're right John.
Source?
Part of it is due to overfishing but not by legal crab boats. It's China fishing boats that have been coming to American waters all year round dropping cages. There is no way for the coast guard or the navy to stop even half of them. My friend's dad worked on crab boats until he died last year, his last 20 years he was captain of a boat. He would always see Chinese boats illegally fishing in American waters but it was a waste of time to report. they would be long gone before anyone would send a boat or plane to check it out.
Dude I am sure Fukushima Japan 3;11/11 had nothing to heat the pacific ocean? (or radiation) I mean the currents run right to the Bering sea. The gift that keeps on giving!
The fishing industry spawned in an unnatural and unprecedented state of the north Pacific. It has always been unsustainable. Learned something new, as usual. Enjoyed the outtakes ending.
Thanks for watching!
@@KPassionate please check out Understanding Ag channel as well as Allan Savory's Ted Talk.
What are you trying to say in your first sentence ?
@@jesse75 Sir, please refer to the megafaunal collapse hypothesis and the N. American fur trade. Keystone species were removed prior to the industrial revolution when mechanized fishing arose and species interactions were changed from what they formerly had been for millions of years prior. This gave a false sense of abundance in some areas of the fishing industry as the interactions supporting a more balanced dynamic were no longer present. This applies primarily to the shelfish industry, but indirectly affects fin fish stocks as well. Now, when animals like the sea otter are reintroduced they are seen as threats to short term monetarily driven objectives, but in reality they are key to ensuring more long term stability. Glad you asked. "The wisdom and greatness of man will be measured not wholly by his technical power over the wild things of the earth, but also in his moral strength to let them be." -Victor B. Scheffer
@@corydalton7135 I see you know how to copy and paste.
Who lived millions of years ago to come to such a conclusion ? Certainly not you, I admit it, so should people who wrote such nomenclature.
I believe the fisherman who live on the fish. Who study water temperature and color. They are in business to find the fish.
Why are Chum salmon prolific and Chinooks are not ? Ask a fisherman. He knows.
Well you’ve succeeded in scaring the crap out of me. Thanks
Sorry!!! But I think it’s important to provide info amongst a sea of misinformation.
@@KPassionate I completely agree with you.
I’m glad you made this but I got to say Russia kept there snow crab session open and they seem to not be having a hard time geting them is it possible they moved or maybe they were checking populations in the wrong area we saw this in Canada a few years ago in Canada and the fishermen didn’t seem to have a issue finding them idk this doesn’t seem like they all just died off to me
Or are our government agencies lying ? This is the lying Biden administration !!!
@@DutcherDog maybe but I can’t see how Biden could force the hole state of Alaska to make up false numbers I hate Biden as much as the next guy but I just don’t see that happening
You make too much sense... Stop it!!
USA will have no crabs because of dum dums but they will have this watch and weep THREADS
@@dragonflydreamer7658 there are plenty of crabs there are Dungeness crabs blue there still fishing for king grab in green land and Norway there not haveing a hard time with it
It rained where I live today . I blame climate change. It's also very warm for this time of year. Climate change. Getting much colder next week. Climate change. It fits everything, doesn't it?
Some people want to blame everything on climate change. Everything changes these ice packs have always moved and always will. Receding ice has uncovered many wonderful discoveries of previous inhabitants. Which tells me the ice wasn’t there when those people lived there.
In Australia, we have the spiny lobster march, starting on the southeastern coast of Australia and progressing to the Torres Straight at the tip of Australia and on to Papua New Guinea, with thousands of people catching spiny lobster and selling it at the market, very cheap. they then head toward Indonesia and just disappear, no one knows where they go, they just disappear but turn up the next year and do it all over again, including disappearing somewhere towards Indonesia
Research paper?
In the 1980's is when the fishing industry in Alaska expanded exponentially. I'm sure over fishing plays a part they just don't want to admit to it. A lot of extinctions are due to hunting/fishing.
Alaska traditionally has managed its fisheries well to prevent this.
I tend to agree. Snow crab was available everywhere at reasonable prices. The Asian Buffets around here included it in the price of dinner and lot of people, including myself, took advantage of it. However, in the back of my mind was the question "How is this sustainable?"
I was told there used to be over 300 boats in the fleet in Alaska...now there are like 60. That should tell us something.
I told this to 30 or so people and no one seemed one bit concerned about it. I’m just proud to see that I’m not the only one that’s concerned with this.
It's a big deal! Even if you don't eat crab regularly it should make people concerned about the planet
Well helping these fishermen would be great but I think we're all out of money. JB gave it all to Ukraine.... And his friends.
You know it’s funny that everything is in short supply since Sleepy Joe was put in charge!! Pitiful!!
Thanks for the great video as always
Although this one was quite the bummer tho 😔
I know 90% is an insane amount but do you think there is any chance the species can recover?
I hope so with their fast reproductive rate!
Russian and Canadian populations are strong. This is NEVER MENTIONED
Also, king crab is supposedly nearly extinct here, yet they claim it is invasive and out of control in Scandinavia.
I'm afraid there may be some other factors involved, like not doing a proper count during COVID, or some sort of false reporting for marketing purposes.
And it’s complicated in Scandinavia too apparently they aren’t even allowed to fish for king crab there
KP, I admire you for doing all of this. I hope you'd also get protected, as exposing these kinds of issues could mean trouble as well. 🙏❤️
I'm not sure what that means hahaha. I'm sure I'll be fine.
@@KPassionate lol sorry for the confusion but from where I come from, when you know too much, you could get 💀 esp when it involves big people and stuff and issues like this.
Lol
The answer is simple greed of oil drilling in Alaska since America started exploiting Alaska for its natural resources the crabs are migrating away all live is running away from America except silly people hahahah
The loss of the "cold pool" opens up territory for cod predation. Ever seen a cod eat? They're like a vacuum cleaner...and they can eat a lot...and cod are flourishing.
Exactly!
I live in Seattle WA, and I personally have noticed a disturbing trend here. We are seeing thousands of juvenile crabs floating dead in the Puget sound and it's not just Seattle it's all over the Puget sound.
Girlfriend shit just got real!
Those fisherman 100% deserve subsidies like our farmers.
I absolutely agree!
I farm in N TX and if we lose a crop due to weather or drought its not a problem to get assistance to keep our operation going for next year. How is crab fishing any different? Thx for sharing
@@toddbennett6097 I agree!
I read something somewhere a few years ago from a reputable source -- possibly National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine or PBS -- about how disappearing glaciers in Alaska were actually benefitting the sea otter populations because it was opening up bays and fjords previously unavailable to them. It was chilling to read specific glaciers and how they had receded or disappeared, because [near to the time I read the article] I had just finished John Muir's "Travels in Alaska." John Muir was a geologist who specialized in studying glaciers, so he describes in great detail the size and location of glaciers that simply no longer exist.
So I'm thinking that "melting glaciers opened up habitat for sea otters" is only half the story, since "opening that habitat" actually destroyed the necessary ecosystem for the species like Snow Crab who relied on that ice to keep predators away.
And of course "climate change forcing prey species to deeper colder water, causing predator species to collapse" is happening globally. Recent starvation events in Brown Pelicans off the California coast and Little Blue Penguins are tentatively linked to a similar phenomenon. "What happens when the food moves due to climate change and you can't evolve fast enough to catch up" is a story shared by many species right now, and it's disturbing. The other disturbing thing is how warming temperatures are forcing some arctic species (like caribou) to stay at higher elevations. Caribou are a weird one, they won't come lower because warming has caused exploding mosquito populations -- mosquitoes are the pollinators of tge tubdra -- and because of competition for fewer food resources fewer calves are being born as their mothers simply reabsorb the ones they can't carry to term (that story is a chilling rabbit hole to go down...).
Changing climate will always have pros along with cons. We generally only hear about potential negative effects, but there has been lots of research done showing benefits for some species along with things like vast amounts of new farmland becoming viable in countries like Canada. Indeed it seems odd that Canada is so into avoiding climate change given that it would stand to benefit greatly in terms of economy from it.
As for species being able to adapt, they have in previous warming and cooling periods, the only difference is that humans have also made drastic changes to a lot of the landscape (farming, clearing, cities and so on). It's one annoying aspects of the climate alarmism bs(not to be confused with the issue of climate change), they keep trying to remove the historically very well documented rapid warning periods from the records. No doubt many species suffered and they were never previously under the amount of human induced stress, including competition for habitat, but they have all previously survived far worse than the current situation and recovered.
Not sure where you're getting your information, but the data doesn't back up your claims and I do not have the time or mental bandwidth to explain why. We are actually historically supposed to be headed toward cyclical COOLING right now, and that "climate alarmism bs" is actually not even close to the level of alarm needed. And check your privilege, there are already millions of climate refugees from places either bring flooded or too dry to support life. Unless we shift quickly not just to "net zero" carbon but "net negative," we're staring down at broad spectrum ecosystem collapse globally. The canaries in the coal mine are all dead at this point. Life as we know it has not survived worse than this, not even close.
@@Jake12220 pros - good luck to your kids - might want to move north and away from the coast. But I am just an alarmist. HA
@@slipjones2 lm in Australia, so if anything l would be moving south, though north into the tropic zone would work just as well. Australia according to the modelling would be a mixed bag, some areas becoming far more habitable while others would be the opposite.
@@valstarkgraf l suspect your one of the people too far gone to listen to reason, but if your willing to challenge your views then check out bjorn lomborg, there is plenty on UA-cam or just google his take on the situation. He isn't trying to argue against the climate change situation, he just points out how incredibly stupid and ineffective the methods so far used have been if the goal is to deal with the problems.
The difference between wanting to deal with climate change and climate alarmism is that one actually tries to deal with the problem and the other is panicking, making a lot of noise but achieving nothing useful.
That's because fish and game are morons, they survey the same areas year after year. The crab moved out of the survey areas and moved north. They have not all died off
"Billions" disappearing just like that. Suddenly the human population doesn't sound so untouchable to a sudden decline.
This is really sad. I remember spending evenings at the docks in Haines AK having crab feasts with the fishermen. Those crabs were so big that they easily fed a couple of people. That was in the late 1970s. The ocean was healthier then.
It is awful to witness for sure
@@KPassionate I feel so sorry for the animals in the ocean. We as a species have been horrible to our fellow creatures.
I worked briefly in AK, Bristol Bay 2012. Trident Seafoods. 🔱 salmon were all shapes, sizes, conditions. Some looked healthy clean, strong. Others were BAD. Sick, diseased. Seafood in AK PNW areas 🎣 should be moderated, restrained for the next 4-6 seasons. The fish 🦀🦞🦐 need time to re populate.
Do u understand how cold pressurized gas is and your just drilling and pumping all the cold gas out of the ground and you question why ice is melting lol use your brain pressured gas is cold and talking it out the ground makes warm pockets
Maybe they froze to death
does that call to improve the integrity of scientific work apply to climate science too? no...I didn't think so.
I would like another marine biologist opinion on this matter.someone please contact George costanza
So the king crab crash in the 80’s was also due to climate change???
I love Breaking Crab my favorite character is Jesse Crabman
Am I the only one from blarg video?
Nah, I’m here too, but from all the goons videos
The crabs migrated north to colder waters.The boats can be used as tour boats-Visit the vanishing frozen North...there industry saved.
how does anyone know they just havent moved? sounds like alot of guessing
Most likey little bidon gave his friends the russians a party!
Oh, oh, the crabbers are going to have sell their property in Hawaii.
And there are still people who say climate change isn't happening.