Between 2018 and 2021, there was an unexpected 92% decline in snow crab abundance, or about 10 billion crabs. The crabs had been plentiful in the years prior, puzzling scientists and crabbers alike.

Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.

Alaska's snow crab season canceled for second year in a row 02:17. Gabriel Prout is grateful for a modest haul of king crab, but it's the vanishing of another crustacean variety that has the ...

On average, snow crabs bring in about $150 million of annual revenue for Alaskan fisheries. In the 2021-2022 crabbing season, that revenue fell to around $24 million.

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the first time ever after scientists discovered an unprecedented decline in crab numbers. Climate change is the No. 1 ...

Between 2018 and 2021, there was an unexpected 92% decline in snow crab abundance, or about 10 billion crabs. The crabs had been plentiful in the years prior, puzzling scientists and crabbers alike.

Aside from the snow crab and salmon collapses, he's facing unusually high diesel prices, a relatively low price for his catch and an ongoing loan payment for the Insatiable, a black-hulled Super58.

Snow crab legs, the pale-pink centerpiece of any self-respecting seafood platter, are no longer on the menu. They are the victim of a massive population crash that led Alaska to cancel its 2022 ...

Alaskan officials recently canceled the Bering Sea snow crab season for the second year in a row — and the second time ever — due to dwindling crab population levels.. When researchers with ...

The snow crab population in the Bering Sea off the western coast of Alaska has fluctuated for decades. An increase in young crabs back in 2018 led to optimism that fishing would rebound.

Snow crab fishing in Alaska returns, but fishermen face uncertainty amid reduced quotas 03:48. For two years in a row, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the snow crab season in the ...