Scientists have more evidence to explain why billions of crabs vanished around Alaska. It wasn’t overfishing, scientists explained — it was likely the shockingly warm water that sent the crabs’ metabolism into overdrive and starved them to death.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/billions-crabs-vanished-around-alaska-090002095.html?&ncid=100001466
by The_Weekend_Baker
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So – no more crabs?
Oh boy! Ecological collapse! /s
And this is why global warming is bad.
Here’s from April 25 2024
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/podcast/what-happened-all-alaska-snow-crabs
Are ocean acidification levels dissolving snow crab mechanoreceptors like they are dissolving dungeness crab joints?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969720301200
(Ocean acidification is caused by carbonic acid btw – levels increase due to too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere)
Oh well that’s so much better. /s
And this is… better?