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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

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baskethead wrote: post #236
artificial wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fleet is big enough to be seen from space. Neat animation of some activity here [0] and AP story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB6-bAF9B8A

As far as I'm concerned the countries impacted by those fishing cities should quietly torpedo them. It's a crime against humanity and if China can't support their own population with food they create themselves, they should cull their own population, not selfishly create famine for other countries by overfishing everything they can get their hands on.

BTW here's a better presentation of some of the fleet, it's enraging. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/ch...

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

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gremlinsinc wrote: post #165
glonq wrote: post #81

Next season on Discovery's Deadliest Catch: Sig and Wild Bill learn how to knit.

At least we still have lab grown meat, as it appears we'll soon have to get all our sustenance from labs since we'll probably be the last living creature on earth, sooner than later.

/me runs off quick to trademark "lab crab"

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

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nharada wrote: post #62
guywithahat wrote: post #47

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.

"Larger statistical variance caused by climate change results in outlier event that kills 90% of crab" isn't a great headline. What do you need to believe that climate change is a factor in this event? A sample size of 1 million? A deviation of 5 sigma?

This is my point though. Over the last 110 years the US has gone up about ~1'F https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...

This, in theory, changes every aspect of life by some amount, however minuscule or large it may be. In the case of king crab fishing though we haven't really seen a downward trend. What we've seen is some really good seasons, new techniques, and now very few fish. People like to explain everything away due to climate change but it seems more logical to me this is random deviation or the result of new technology or bad practices by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Assuming this follows a normal distribution we would expect a shortage of crab by over 2 standard deviations in 50 year intervals (or after ~25 years of beginning our recording), and below 3 standard deviations if we repeat this 20 times. We could explain this away perfectly fine without invoking climate change

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