Crabs 90% off

[SwimModSponges]

Population. 

90% off population.

In 2 years.

We're a billion crabs short.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fishing-alaska-snow-crab-season-canceled-investigation-climate-change/

Love how they're investigating, like "gee, where are all the crabs hiding? Maybe under there?"

[Jman]

All you can do is not fish and allow the population to recover.  Fucking climate change.

[Top Gun]

Fucking Zaslav pushing Deadliest Catch way too hard.

[NewBluntsworth]

All populations are crashing. It's the industrial capitalist extraction system that is causing the global biodiversity loss we are seeing across all ecosystems, it is this that will beat climate change in taking out most species.

Crabs and those types are especially hard hit by ocean acidification which is well under way, many species can't form their shells in a sea of hot acid. While the usual suspects of mass overfishing is one good guess, it's also quite possible the crabs didn't "go" anywhere, they simply can't grow and exist any longer in these conditions. 

Edited October 14, 2022 by NewBluntsworth

[Seight]

Wait, I thought everything was evolving into crabs, now we're running out of crabs?

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[katt_goddess]

Has anyone tried dipping a Kardashian into the water and giving a little shake?

That might up the free-range crab population slightly.

[tsar4]

"Karens" are the new Crabs.

[NewBluntsworth]

On 10/14/2022 at 5:11 PM, NewBluntsworth said:

All populations are crashing. It's the industrial capitalist extraction system that is causing the global biodiversity loss we are seeing across all ecosystems, it is this that will beat climate change in taking out most species

Yeah, as is usually the case, it was the overfishing. Gotta love those sea floor trawlers. Maximum extraction, leave nothing left. 

 

 

[scoobdog]

Overfishing is regrettably the best case scenario.  Climate change factors make it near impossible to regenerate wild populations.