“Very few people are going to stand in that kind of weather and try ... caught in a crab pot, is released unharmed back into the Bering Sea. Photograph by Corey Arnold A trawl net being hauled ...

Bering Sea snow crab, with two specimens seen in this undated photo, support an iconic Alaska seafood harvest, but a crash in population since 2018 triggered the first ever closure of the fishery ...

Scott Goodman, the executive director of the Bering Sea Fisheries Research Foundation ... Last year, there was a small season for Tanner and red kind crabs, but it was less than five million ...

Billions of crabs have disappeared from the Bering Sea near Alaska and the increasing temperature of the water seems to be the primary reason for it. New research from National Oceanic and ...

Fishermen and scientists were alarmed when billions of crabs vanished from the Bering ... ice-free conditions in the southeast Bering Sea — the kind of conditions found in sub-Arctic regions ...

That is a contrast with other types of crab found in Alaska waters ... Resilience to ocean acidification could be important for snow crab and other Bering Sea species. The Bering Sea is, by ...

About 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea between 2018 and 2021 ... percent of a normal year in the region. “This was kind of an unexpected, punctuated change in their ...

When scientists realized that nearly 10 billion snow crabs had gone missing from Bering Sea between 2018 to 2021 ... “This was kind of an unexpected, punctuated change in their populations ...

“This was kind of an unexpected, punctuated change in their populations,” Szuwalksi tells CNN. “But I think long term, the expectation is that the snow crab population will move north as the ice ...

ALASKA, USA — Two weeks after the snow crab season was canceled in Alaska's Bering Sea for the second year due to population concerns, scientists have released more details about what they think ...