If I was prez, I'd reserve a number of offshore "national parks" where no fishing of any sort is allowed.
You know, the difference is that marine animals travel a lot more than land animals.
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
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Other sources I've seen are blaming the dramatic heat during the summer of 2019. It "scrambled the broader marine ecosystem" causing die-offs and migrations for many species of fish. Snow Crabs are primarily deep water scavengers so they had plenty of food that year, but have struggled since.
Some people don't want to hear that because it's counter to their world-view. Earth isn't warming. Everything is OK. We can continue burning fossil fuels while having zero impact to the environment. Is there a word describing this mass wishful thinking?
That mass wishful thinking is call “climate change denial”.
We keep adding more and more evidence that climate change is happening. Even on a local scale we can all see significant changes in our local climate from year to year. The older among us can see this even more clearly if they chose. From what we know of the atmosphere there HAS to be heating from the rapid increase in CO2.
You can stick your fingers in your ears as much as you want but it won’t prevent this from happening and at an accelerating pace.
Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
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As a fisherman who practices sustainable fishing and abides by the regulations in place, and has witnessed the rebound of several species I target, I call bullshit.
By 'rebound' do you mean slightly above such catastrophic depletion that action was finally taken? Kind of a low baseline.
Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
#144If I was prez, I'd reserve a number of offshore "national parks" where no fishing of any sort is allowed.
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Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
#145I 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.
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.
China is by far overfishing all over the world compared to other countries. I doubt the Alaskan crabs are a result of that though. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/25/can-anyo...
Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
#146I 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.
But China is overfishing in the public, not "under the radar", and they usually only go up to someones territorial waters, do not completely cross. Moreover, I very much doubt they would dare do so to a semi-powerful western state, let alone the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/insider/a-clear-look-at-c...
I remember chilling north coast of Santa Cruz late one night after a surf sesh, and boats pulling up to shore, unloading people and other items. This was right about when (was it Golden Budda?) in Soquel got busted for smuggling chinese machine guns? Sure they cross territorial waters.
(Man I was bummed. They had the best hot and sour soup.)
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Yep, it was Golden Buddha
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Smuggler-of-Chinese-arms...
Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don't think it could mean Israel given that we're talking about the Bering Strait and not the Mediterranean or Red Sea.
Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
#148How feasible is it to grow crabs in captivity? We need to start farming food, no way natural ecosystems can support themselves _and_ humans at current levels.
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How many states are there with access to pacific waters that could potentially have thousands of unregistered fishing vessels and whom a poster would be uncomfortable naming explicitly for fear of backlash?
Seems odd that this is a logical guess, but then that's labelled as "xenophobic speculation".
It's a logical guess that the only country that could have thousands of unregistered ships would be china, one of the worlds leading industrial powers with a large pacific coastline. It's xenophobic speculation that china does in fact have these ships and specifically are the cause of this population collapsing.
Re: Alaska snow crab season canceled after disappearance of an estimated 1B crabs
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According to clearsprings >Farmed seafood, in general, is a sustainable option, requiring far less feed per pound compared to other farmed sources of protein like beef, pork, and chicken. That is one advantage if true but that just means more sustainable than beef, pork, and chicken. Is there a condition that would prevent their farming? Like the accessibility of the feed?
> Conventional operations use large amounts of fishmeal and fish oil (and hence more wild fish) in their feed. All rainbow trout on the U.S. market is farmed-raised in the U.S., where farming operations are held to strict environmental standards. Improvements to feed have enabled less wild fish to be used. https://seafood.edf.org/trout So I guess they harvest wild fish to feed the farmed fish?
Fishmeal and oil are byproducts of processing the filets