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Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

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Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

#131

I don't like how they keep blaming climate change, even though that doesn't seem to be what happened here. We just had one of the best seasons for crab fishing; does CBS expect us to think climate change in the last year ruined this season? Much more likely is disease, some new techniques in crab fishing that over harvested the sea, or random deviation.

Global warming also contributes to the proliferation of disease.

Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

#132
post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you assuming that the poster is hinting at China when his comment didn't mention the country?

Tell me what other country the OP could possibly mean when they said "countries I dare not to list for being downvoted".

China seems like a logical guess, but that statement could describe Israel or other countries that have very passionate supporters as well.

Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

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post #42

The Seattle Times joined followed a carb boat in April of 2022. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/into-t... The captain's take on the issue includes climate change, over crabbing areas known to be struggling and trawling. The article also includes an explanation as to how cod could be responsible due to climate change offering less ice protection for the crab.

> carb boat

Heh heh. I imagine fishermen hauling in a net full of potatoes and pasta.

Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

#135
post #3

Wow, those are some crazy numbers. Shocking it could happen that fast... what's next?

I'm eating as much delicious sushi grade tuna I can before it's gone.

what a great way to look at life.

Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

#137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If humans don't buy them they have no value and may as well be extinct anyways.

What a horrifying worldview.

It really is. I will never understand the "i got mine" attitude. I'm no angel, but holy shit.

Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

#138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any evidence to back this up, or is this just xenophobic speculation? China’s encroachment on sovereign waters for fishing is one thing when it’s against South American countries with small navies; it’s another thing entirely when it’s the US. I doubt they’re behind this.

Why are you assuming that the poster is hinting at China when his comment didn't mention the country?

China has been the subject of multiple high-profile news stories (and popular HN threads) about overfishing. They’re also the standard xenophobic bugbear on HN.

Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

#139
post #130

Overfishing is a classic problem of "Tragedy of the Commons". The oceans are the commons. For example, nobody is predicting a catastrophic decline in the population of pigs, chickens, and cattle. Fish farming is the future.

Veganism is the (only logical) future.

The issue is that people en masse don’t actually care all that much about the cruelty of killing animals so long as it’s not reasonably torturous. The future, however dystopian you may see it, is sustainably growing the animals we want to eat for slaughter.

Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs

#140

I am willing to bet it is illegal fishing boats from countries I dare not to list for being downvoted. It is well known that some countries list a few hundred boats but in reality have fleets of tens of thousands of boats that operate under the radar. They over fish and destroy entire ecosystems and no one is doing anything about it.

If there were enough boats out there to reduce the population 90% in two years then we would know. Our radar isn't -that- bad.
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