Alaska cancels king and snow crab seasons due to population collapse

Biologists say the population collapse could be caused by warming of the Bering Sea. The cancellation of the season is leaving many fishermen fighting to stay in business.
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[@mt2nv1]

Growing up in Montana the balance between humans and nature felt very intimate. It’s time we all evaluate our impact on our planet and take responsibility for it.

[@silentvoiceinthedark5665]

Growing up in Montana you learn the best way to pozz off a grizzly bear is to shoot it.

[@crazychase98]

This screams china crabs where heavily regulated by gov

[@abefroman8528]

The elites want you dead. We are overpopulated and the only solution for the future is the less people

[@chrisnelson3668]

Have you been to Montana lately, it is a meth head crap hole

[@kevinalfrey2633]

Yes, let’s push regulations only on the United States, let’s push depopulation for the greater good. Let’s push green energy that impacts the environment more than fuel., and causes rolling blackouts and the potential to freeze and starve millions because it trendy.

[@kenaidog6974]

Alaska crab fisherman made millions of dollars over the years but now want disaster money. What a joke.

[@robbieogle8622]

Exactly. These are the guys that will start harpooning whales again.

[@cynthiakenner1803]

Come on disaster. Try Florida hurricaine IAN thats a fishing collapse

[@tvdinner325]

Maybe they should have invested it, in a tRump business? BWHAHAHAHA!

[@dutchdna]

Exactly. And they don't want to pay their fair share in taxes. .

[@crazychase98]

@@dutchdna Ya yes steel there hard earned money because your greedy and lazy. Evil comment

[@DM-ry3nw]

I’ve been sadly dreading this news story for 15+ years. I grew up in the early 2000’s when Alaskan King/Snow crab legs were all the hype and I’m guessing that was some of the heaviest they’ve ever been commercially fished. They were actually kinda cheap, like a normal person could afford to fill up on king crab legs from time to time, and snow crab legs were so affordable you could afford to eat em like they were shrimp. There were so many buffets that had king and snow crab legs, especially snow crab legs, they were as common at a buffet as shrimp. Even red lobster used to have an endless snow crab leg fest, that was red lobsters REAL crabfest 😤 Then they were overfished to where they were depleting, prices skyrocketed and in a pretty short period of time they went from something you could enjoy similar to shrimp and you could find anywhere for not insanely expensive prices, to being so expensive just a leg or two of king crab is all normal people can really afford if they wanna have it more than once or twice a year. Even snow crab legs which used to be at nearly all cheap Chinese buffets started to become super pricy to where it it’s something you can only enjoy occasionally as a special occasion as a normal person, whereas it used to be where normal people could get stuffed off just eating snow crab pretty frequently. Looking at how atrociously we overfished them to the point they were served at dirt cheap buffets and restaurants across the western world where you could fill up on nothing but snow crab for ~$10 not even 7 years ago, I can’t say I didn’t see this coming. Growing up with them, if felt so abrupt when all buffets stopped having snow crab legs and the prices for them at the store were just laughable, like $50 for a couple of measly clusters that look all freezer burned. We went from busting down plate after plate of Alaskan crab legs to being thankful to get a small cluster or two basically overnight.

[@thisisgettingold]

As a former salmon and herring fisherman out of Stika Naknek and Kodiak I've seen the unreal overfishing and drastically declining populations since 2015.

[@CraneOperator83]

You talking about a fight? Let that lady bring out the fresh batch of snowcrabs to the buffet and see how many people act like savages

[@DM-ry3nw]

@@CraneOperator83 you brought back so many memories of me waiting for the lady with the fresh batch of crab legs to start walking towards the buffet counter so I could get all the best ones without savagely having to scoop some up in a frenzied scene of fellow cheapskates usually consisting of old people, some buffets I went to would drop off tour busses loaded with old Chinese tourists and when they were there… oh man it was like putting your leg into piranha infested water🤣🤣🤣

[@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503]

DM ... thanks for that... your report is Johnny on the spot! I won't even touch snow crab.... always freezer burned

[@DM-ry3nw]

@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 I was the same exact way dude I ate it weekly until it got pricy in like ~2015, never bought it because of the same reason you don’t get it, it looks freezer burned to sh*t and kinda funky. I avoided it until a couple months ago, where my local store had it on sale (got 1.5 pounds for $20) and I tried a new method to warm it up. Bake it at like 400°F wrapped in foil for ~10-20 mins and dawg I was shocked how fresh they tasted, some of the Freshest tasting crab I’ve ever tried tbh. It was freezerburnt looking too but idk what happened but the shell were nice snappy and not soggy, and the meat was not shriveled at all and it was straight perfect, I get live lobsters straight from Maine quite a bit and it was definitely near that level of freshness, which was something I’d never expect from freezer burned looking crab legs from the store. Might be the wrap in foil and bake method, or it was an especially good batch, or both who knows but it didn’t look like anything special.

[@ianbideshi8021]

My greatest respect to the Alaska department of Fisheries. I fully understand that this is going to affect alot of people, children included.

[@668771]

Who cares, we've eliminated ENTIRE species from the earth. Fack us humans, we're disgusting as a whole and deserve to suffer horribly.

[@Mrbfgray]

Crab Covid, unvacced crabs asked for it.

[@jondishmonmusicandstuff2753]

A lot not alot

[@Mrbfgray]

@@mikeconway4224 GROW UP good grief.

[@ShakaShinePressureWashing]

I’m on my way to pay $120 for 2 king crab legs 🦀

[@DriftmanX]

I work in Quality Control for a seafood company. As a outdoorsman myself, it’s shameful to see the amount of seafood discarded EVERYDAY. And this is just one warehouse of THOUSANDS

[@zachmoyer1849]

the food industry in general is a very wasteful system and not just in our country

[@road7985]

@@zachmoyer1849 you’re right, we need to make food illegal so no one can waste any

[@Parkerspuffin]

@@road7985 I'm down

[@alrightb]

@@zachmoyer1849 all industry are wasteful, anything not sold is thrown away. Brand new items. Waste not want not. After so many generations it is catching up with business. Reaping what you sowed

[@Thunderbyrd.]

What does that have to do with the quota's for the crabbers? If the quota's for the crabbers remain the same then how does waste at the consumer level affect crab numbers in Alaska?

[@cricketlovely8541]

Thank you Alaska for making the RIGHT decision and doing the RIGHT thing 🕊️👍

[@victoriaregina8344]

Curseu alasksaaaaaa

[@victoriaregina8344]

Alaska didnt do anything right!

[@lpk6372]

Yeah tha k god they didn't elect Sarah Palin she would have made a crab bridge to nowhere or find a right wing former athlete and give him money these people need. The right has never been on the right side of anything other then the devil's right hand.

[@NateBee]

@@victoriaregina8344 really? You’d rather have Zero snow crab next year after they fully destroy the population?

[@kimmicalifornio8119]

A little too late. They have no choice now. They should of done it years ago.

[@garywarren5048]

I don't watch news or TV in general but I do appreciate the fact that the host asked decent questions, doesn't happen often.

[@absbabs6153]

I don't feel bad for these businesses.....they knew exactly what they were doing, all the fishermen. For Years the biologists have been telling them that they can't sustain such enormous amounts of fishing, and that too without allowing any time for the population to replenish...no one feels for the millions of crabs being hunted from the moment they're born but suddenly we should feel bad for the people who've been reaping every benefit possible from nature without expecting any harm in the process? It's what happens when you don't respect the animals that provide you your life.

[@pirtatejoe]

It is shocking and disappointing how terrible this reporting is because so many people in the comments have utterly missed the point. The problem is NOT overfishing (at least not here). The Alaska/Bering Sea fishery is one of the best monitored and regulated in the world. That is the point! They monitor the crab populations year round and set sustainable quotas for fishing. This year, during their monitoring of the crab population, all of a sudden they aren't there. The point of this report is that because of climate change, change in sea currents and water temperatures have likely forced the crab to move or their population to crash due to some other circumstance such as disease or parasite due to the change in water conditions in their spawning grounds. That is what they are investigating now. But, with no crab, they cancelled the crab fishing seasons so as to not put further strain on their numbers.

[@isaacbacka8731]

Wish more people would read this comment

[@dudzinski324]

There will be no problem get crab in Russia. On the US/Russia line the crab were plentiful.

[@ELECTRICEYEMEDIA]

Try again! Silly Billy Gates is behind it rest assured. It's part of the food control coming.

[@jeremyjames6654]

Mass die -offs of species has begun already. Every % temperature degree higher allows for another species to meet extinction. As their list grows over time , humans will begin to understand what they should have thought about decades ago. Instead they are distracted by novelties. When the species begin to disappear that are dearest to us. It's already too late for change.

[@jimmylieb5225]

Piratejoe: you hit it out of the ballpark. Global warming induced by humans spewing tons upon tons of carbon dioxide and methane year after year is the cause as mentioned in the video. Unprecedented Glaciers melting and ice in antártica melting are the symptoms. We as a species need take corrective actions now before it is well past too late.

[@jameswest4819]

I lived in Alaska in the early eighties and was disappointed that the King Crabs were off limited for years in the area where I lived. It turned out to be something like a nematode that was attacking their eggs. Obviously, things changed, and the crabs came back stronger than ever. Give the crabs a break and they'll heal themselves like they did before.

[@jeffjohnson5053]

Tell that to china, who has 17,000 fishing boat fleets and uses drag nets!! They are fishing in Alaska area and all over the planet! So are the North koreans. They all have tens of thousands of fishing boats! The US only has 60 crab ships?? Such a small number compared to China. And the evil chinese take all the crabs regardless of how small they are!!

[@saturationstation1446]

@@jeffjohnson5053 the evil chinese lol... they didnt make eurocentric people poach the earth into oblivion

[@paulmobleyscience]

@@jeffjohnson5053 agreed and also Fukushima

[@drakokamikaze8823]

Hopefully they do. 🦀

[@igotufoinformation9636]

This is due to over fishing, not your bs nematodes. Which is rare to begin with , stfu james west

[@spruce6877]

I can't believe the guy only cared about the current generation of business, rather than thinking this is needed to REPLENISH the crab population for FUTURE generations.

[@Brandon68plus1]

I've seen deer seasons cancelled or bag limit minimized in certain counties for years and population increases and it goes back to normal. Hopefully this will be the case with the crab fishing.

[@vaq137]

water temps changed crabs need a range they can live in or they die

[@fredgrebner526]

Of course it will as long as other countries that crab fish are playing by the rules as well

[@nathansmith6628]

@MLAustin5 did you not watch this video 🤦‍♂️🤡 around the 2:00 minute mark he talks about unusual warm water temperature starting on 2018

[@_PatrickO]

@MLAustin5 Grow up. Warm waters cause crabs to migrate north to colder waters. This is not some kind of conspiracy. The fishing industry is a joke, so they ignored this and grabbed what they could as the warm waters reduced the population. It is certainly possible that the overfishing and warm waters together wiped the crab out completely, so they cannot just go more north to fish. This is largely self imposed so it is silly when guys like this ask for financial assistance. If the crab population has survived more north, its numbers are tiny and it will take a lot longer than a few years to recover.

[@_PatrickO]

@MLAustin5 I did not offend you. Facts can never be considered offensive. I will have to ask you to grow up again. Just because you don't like a fact does not mean you get to lie. Crabs naturally migrate to colder waters if the water they were in warms up. It is happening on the east coast of the US also. Soon they will migrate completely out of US waters and the entire crab industry in new england will have to migrate to canada. In alaska, the same migration would have happened, but they overfished at the same time the water warmed up. Crab migrations are generational. They have to breed and each generation manages to move further and further north. If you over fish during a period when the crab population is experiencing massive die offs, you run the risk of destroying the whole population. They literally fished the crabs out of existence by ignoring the declining population. If a small population survived, it may bounce back up in the arctic circle, but it is possible they overfished and all the crab died out. They will have to get crab from other areas which are crazy expensive and release them and then wait a decade or two. If they are lucky it will work. So when it comes to cash to help these fisherman, sorry for them, but they should not get a dime. Any money spent needs to go to reseeding the cooler waters north of alaska hoping the crab population can build back up.

[@crystalm4324]

Do you think that you just overfished the whole stock!! You said 3 years of taking very small crabs …. Then you just kept fishing hard over the next 3 slow years - Who’s left to breed right now! Honestly Humans are the greediest, most destructive species on the planet.

[@robbieogle8622]

The greed is over the top. They made millions. Now they want bailouts. 😆

[@keemmathews7330]

@@robbieogle8622 absolutely pathetic

[@SlavaPunta]

They can only keep the adults. They sort and throw back everything that's undersized.

[@robinharris6771]

I'm no authority on crab fishing. I know nothing. The man said he noticed small crabs. He did not say he harvested small crabs. Be careful about twisting the story. Correct me if I am wrong, but there is a measuring gauge that determines if a crab is legal to keep. The Alaska Fish and Wildlife are famous for going hard on violators. You won't stay in business by breaking the law. Lets don't assume poaching undersize crab. You can also assume when they off load, the buyers will either reject undersize crab or pay less than market for them. The harvest is regulated. The boats work hard to bring home their allotment. Maybe the allotments were too big, but I don't blame the fisherman for taking what his permit allows. Having said that, when I fish, I release many of them . I don't strive to "take a limit" . When I figure my expenses,I don't fish to save money!! I can buy frozen fish cheaper by far,. Yes! I enjoy eating fresh fish that I caught! I don't keep fish for my freezer. But I don't fish to earn a living.

[@bekindrewind1145]

"we overfished our waters, we need immediate rapid relief"

[@donaldkasper8346]

Fish/crustacean populations cycle. State biologists monitor health of populations and assign harvest accordingly. Notice they found a population minima and halted the harvest. This is because they watch harvests closely to maintain populations. A cycle at minima is not overfishing.

[@garycunningham9216]

Imitation crab?

[@captaintruth3219]

I used to like that crab once in a while, but the price got to be so ridiculous. Unless you’re one of the rich elites in Hollywood a common man could not afford one leg.

[@33736]

I feel for the commercial fishermen, but when you build your business on over fishing, that's on you. Alaska needs to do what's best for Alaska and and its people and maintain their fisheries in a responsible way.

[@mijajajaja]

Yea, especially considering the fact that a lot of these fishermen aren't even Alaska residents. They did a study a few years ago and it was less than half, so I'd imagine now it's even less due to the mass amount of folks who have moved out of state.

[@VADER677]

Climate change realy helped. Those crab like it 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Water is too warm.

[@buzzinsmaug664]

MAKE SURE YOU POLICE YOUR WATERS TO STOP THE GYPSY ROAMING COUNTRIES - MENTIONED IN MY COMMENT ABOVE ...FROM COMING INTO YOUR WATERS ASAP !!!

[@VADER677]

@@buzzinsmaug664 aren't you a gypsy?

[@WomanTakenBytheWind]

Wtf are you talking about? Alaskans respect nature unlike the rest of the USA and other countries. The Fukushima poisoning as well as the increased water temps killed off a lot of marine wildlife. I have never seen another place do so much for conservation-don’t talk about things you know literally nothing about.

[@dazzlingcheek-buster8512]

They didn’t care it’s just about profit now they’re going to care

[@savsmiles3042]

Do you work for free? Or do you even work? How the heck are people supposed to feed themselves and live if they don’t make a profit?

[@Z4RQUON]

“No one really knows for sure why it happened”, said the crab fisherman about the collapse of the crab population after having just mentioned that there are lots of crab fishermen.

[@donaldkasper8346]

You don't get to just run out in Alaskan waters and grab all you can. You get a license to harvest. Getting one is competitive. You get a quota with the license. You get certain days for crab and that is it. You get a sector of ocean to harvest. 100% of females get thrown back. Only the males are harvested. You act like a very highly regulated industry has no rules at all because why?

[@jacobhatty6960]

People have been responsibly harvesting crab for a long time, my friend. Alaska is probably the best managed fishery on the planet. You have no idea what you're talking about.

[@brrr8995]

How come no one is talking about the environment? All these comments mention prices, the industry, waste etc. No one is listening to biologists say it’s an “ecological collapse”. How is this not concerning? This is a result of climate change and bad human practices.

[@dustysdesk]

I lived my whole life in San Diego. I used to take my kids snorkeling and there were tons of Ochre Starfish in the outlet to Mission Bay. Warmer waters allowed the starfish wasting disease to spread. Haven't seen a single one since. Without the starfish, sea urchent population grows out of control, they in turn devestate the kelp beds, then starve themselves. It's all a balance, one small change can have drastic effects.

[@barbaratyrrell3185]

i know we used to have starfish on the great south bay i have not see one in 30 years they used be at the ocean to no more so sad

[@Murphys_Law9]

@@barbaratyrrell3185 not sad, nature will always recover

[@nbanow9612]

@@Murphys_Law9 not necessarily, typically it’s natural for the earth to go from hot to cold back and forth. But this is the first time where a species in earth is making the planet that much hotter. How can nature come back from that if humans are still making the earth warmer?

[@Murphys_Law9]

@@nbanow9612 Doesn’t matter. The earth can recover from almost anything, millions of years from now new life on earth will emerge like it always does. Humans will go extinct along with 90% of all life on earth during this 6th mass extinction if we don’t find a way to survive thousands of years of toxic air and acid rain. Permian-Triassic extinction event was the worst one in history due to the ocean literally losing oxygen due to climate change and we are on track to be even more devastating than that with all the oil spills and air pollution speeding up this extinction event faster.

[@DS-zl4up]

Its game over, the Oceans are dying and just wait 5 years when we determine it’s too late.

[@rosemarywise5952]

You can't have all those boats bringing in all those millions of pounds of product and Not Over Fish it!! Give it a little break and it can come back!

[@rke6862]

Don't really think that's the problem, I think there's more to it then overfishing.

[@rosemarywise5952]

@@rke6862 sure, there is, currents, pollution, you name it!

[@Mekea1000]

The water warming up

[@rosemarywise5952]

@@Mekea1000 absolutely, it's not just one thing, it's years of crap we humans have done, and climate.

[@dutchdna]

@MarWilliams Williams You're so dumb.

[@srthomp420]

Can't have anything to do with dumping radioactive water into the ocean, constant pollution, and over fishing.

[@waynezhu8909]

The sad thing is that if similar policy was implemented earlier, they probably wouldn't be as extreme and painful. Again, from consumers to producers, everyone is somewhat guilty for discounting the future-which is a common mistake that we all make out of bad characters.

[@SolutionD]

Guessing this season of Deadliest Catch will just be a bunch of dudes sitting around in a pub drinking beer.

[@bumblbesss]

lol Recap Season, it is devastating to the boats and crew out of high-paying work.

[@luke_skywanker7643]

"Crab Whiners." Don't worry. They'll find something to whine about.

[@IRaoulDuke]

It's crazy how much humans take from the sea, there is plenty there as long as its managed correctly so this is a good move.

[@jinkenz6459]

@@ppstorm_ Definition of brown ppl please? 🤔

[@isaacbacka8731]

@@ppstorm_ 1) that’s racist 2) it’s white western corporations polluting causing global warming that made the crabs die, not overfishing by anyone. And most of our crab fleet is white lol

[@SweetBabyBry]

@@ppstorm_ Just brown people???

[@runningkirkwa2934]

@@jinkenz6459 Japanese kill all whales and sharks

[@thesoundsmith]

This needs to be managed globally. And seriously. Not just the crab, but all sea life is in flux now. Coral reefs, kelp - major transformations beyond our control are developing, and we need advance warning to reconfigure and adapt.

[@jacksonfev]

Geez, people fight over crab as if it’s the only food. There’s other food out there! All kinds of fish, beef, chicken, ostrich, gator, turkey, venison, OR a crapload of different and delicious vegetables (I’m vegetarian)… Leave the poor crab alone for a spell. Damn savages, all of you.

[@damienturner6368]

Just cancel it indefinitely! We need to focus on sustainability practices with our current population. If all countries were as wasteful as America the world would quickly be polluted to oblivion.

[@Cormorant1011]

So I'm guessing there won't be a new season of the deadliest catch this year then.

[@memyselfandi8544]

Democrats will catch you instead.

[@craptobotfanboy4958]

there is, The Viking Returns

[@sv83217]

Reruns and marathons 🤷‍♂️

[@nitebird500]

Always a yr behind

[@jrey6186]

Who knows may be the new storyline will be focused on 'catching' a buzz ...

[@Sammy-ht1ul]

The greed and waste is just incredible

[@acidsmokemachine5873]

This is what happens when you take take take without giving anything.

[@memyselfandi8544]

Like democrats always do.

[@ewokrage]

@@memyselfandi8544 Out of the 10 states that are concidered "the most governmentally dependent" 8 of them are Republicans. While on the other hand 7 of the 10 least dependent states are Democrat. Hate to break it too you but you been fooled

[@EpicGamingGrunt]

​@@memyselfandi8544 HILARIOUS! as Republicans give billionaires the biggest tax breaks ever and are shocked when they still move jobs over seas and move investments and money into other countries. Companies are seeing the biggest earning ever but the economy is collapsing because none of that money is going back to the Americans that flow money through the economy.. We have not even moved minimum wage since 2009.. How much have groceries, houses, and basic necessitys gone up. Remember every Republican voted no on bills that were to limit gas prices, give starving babies formulas, and price cap insulin to $20. Keep drinking that cult-aid.

[@skoden1313]

@@memyselfandi8544 imagine being such a loser you have to inject politics into every single facet of life. I bet you're so consumed with stress and anger 24/7 and have no hobbies or personality outside of politics. Im sure you rarely have a conversation with someone worth any substance because all you do is whine about politics. I bet youre truly lonely. Go outside once in a while, life isn't so bad

[@frankie5373]

What have you done for the environment? Fishers/hunters are good for the environment, they help more than you. This clearly isn't about overfishing.

[@violent___serenity]

“We don’t know why this happened” - 😂

[@marquendra]

I was laughing at that too. Clearly taking such things for granted like greed and crazy population growth wouldn't come back to bite us in the ass.

[@wabben77]

@@marquendra the united states has a whopping 0.4% annual growth rate of population, and for the most part we have sensible, responsible, and enforced fishing regulations in the united states.

[@donaldkasper8346]

Ocean currents change. Current salinity changes. Storms can bring up warmer water. It is more about what the Alaskan current is doing. No God, you do not run 800 million cubic miles of ocean. The strait is shallower, so more subject to quick changes. Of the dozens of things going on, what did it is going to be unknown, but like fisheries, crab populations probably cycle.

[@donaldkasper8346]

The Aleutian archipelago is a volcanic chain that is very active. If sea floor eruptions start up and warm the sea floor water, the fish populations may be affected.

[@heir_to_the_promise]

@@donaldkasper8346 You are correct, He runs the entire Universe. Just in case you didn't know.

[@frapkin]

'2016-2017-2018 we were caching a tremendous amount of small crab' and you cannot figure out what's happened to the big ones now.....

[@CBRboy1717]

You completely misunderstood his comment. They’re all measured bud. If they’re small they have to be thrown back so they can reach breeding maturity. Processing plants won’t take small crab. He meant they were SEEING lots of small crab get thrown back, so where did they go?

[@ArnoldDarkshner99]

@@CBRboy1717 Methinks he does not watch Deadliest Catch. I pity the fool, lol.

[@bensymington5550]

Climate change the water temperature is gotten warmer

[@fleotusleotus8642]

Kind of sus when you also consider all the meat processing facilities being burned as well.

[@drinkswatere]

They definitely DONT need financial relief from the state or federal level. Crab has never and will never be a necessity in life. We don’t need to bail them out of a rock and a hard place. If you want to get into risky business then you have to actually take the risk like everyone else.

[@dontworry31415]

How much you want to bet, it's the fisherman that messed up their ecosystem after many years of debauchery... I especially like how these guys are only worried about their businesses and money... This could easily be a sign of a bigger problem..

[@Dime-bz6hc]

Of course the fisherman are a huge part of the problem. Humans have been overfishing for well over a century and now we are seeing the effects of that.

[@jyc313]

May be the case in other industries. but the snow and king crab industry tightly regulated quotas. Every season is slightly different depending on the available crab population. This has been the case for decades. So check your facts before spewing misinformation.

[@dannykim6218]

Government regulator is the problem ,they can set limit ,stop blaming the fisherman ,without them you won't be having seafood on your table at a good price believe me

[@azndude265]

I would bet my entire life savings. That it’s climate like we’ve been fucking saying for decades.

[@Chris-0703]

@@jyc313 How is that working out?

[@nychris2258]

Prepare for many more situations like this going forward...

[@rickybobby7276]

Eating shellfish is a sin…

[@cieloscuro88]

@@rickybobby7276 So are churches and cathedrals not built to tabernacle specifications...if we want to take everything literally from a book thousands of years old with countless iterations/translations.

[@kannonball5789]

@@rickybobby7276 The dietary specifications from the Law of Moses don't apply to Christians.

[@donaldkasper8346]

Prove it. You think you control what 800 million cubic miles of ocean do? Really. You must be a God. Flush your toilet less often to save the world ocean, or whatever.

[@kpokpojiji]

Stories like this should be the major headlines. While I understand the economic concerns of the people, we are now clearly seeing warning signs everywhere of the climate collapsing.

[@user-ke9yk5qp3u]

No one wants to hear that but you are 100% correct and a total minority in the comments. Everyone is blaming this on overfishing and that is not the case. The Arctic is warming four times faster than anywhere else on the planet and things are changing rapidly.

[@akseakayaker]

In others words...... when they are doing great they make lots of money but..... when things go wrong then they want the tax payers to give them money.

[@PadroPadro22]

"No one for sure knows why this happened." Pretty sure you guys know why it happened

[@gmonie619]

Exactly! "we had some amazing years before the collapse" uhhhh no wonder they're gone

[@donaldkasper8346]

State fisheries monitoring just shut down the harvest this year because of------monitoring. So saying there is no monitoring and a collapse from overfishing is just goofy.

[@kaisersoze1596]

Too bad Russia, China, and most other Asian countries won’t follow any fishery guidelines.

[@Rink03]

No they dont, they just overfish OUR coastlines till they've fished the oceans dry, we're the ones dealing with their overfishing abuses

[@edwinpena8394]

The world is collapsing little by little but people are so entertained with materialism and non sense stuff.

[@danielbrealey2924]

And you guys wonder why you pay so much tax- that's the reason, right there. Everytime something goes wrong in someone's world they put their hand out and expect the taxpayer to share the financial burden... My country is the same, and we pay far more tax overall

[@robertskinner1799]

This happened to the Cod fisheries on eastern Canada. The entire industry was devastated.

[@farticusthegreat5685]

Would you rather have the industry disappear completely?

[@TheBooban]

@@farticusthegreat5685 yea. For 3 years. Marine animals populate so fast if we just left them alone a bit they would become abundant.

[@robertskinner1799]

@@farticusthegreat5685 If you google the cod industry on eastern Canada, you will see what was done to help the industry and you can see what worked and what didn't. Partial fishing was allowed and the Cod stocks have NOT returned. Foreign vessels never respected the bans and that certainly has not helped. I hope that the crab fisheries have a much better result.

[@McGovern1981]

@@robertskinner1799 "foreign vessels" AKA China and Russia.... maybe that was the plan all along.

[@hansgruber2509]

@bacorable What happened to the shoals?

[@johnchristmas7522]

This Fisherman, I feel sorry for BUT didn't they see this coming? For how long do they think 60 vessels fishing could go on? How many other ports fish continously?They must have been aware that the amount they were catching was dropping. Alaska didn't just suddenly say season is cancelled. This video is skewed towards the Fishermans plight, rather than that of the crab.

[@rubenmartinez1140]

Exactly right better to stop them now before there's nothing left

[@DM-ry3nw]

Of course they did, they weren’t ignorant to the Alaskan crab market, two decades ago eating snow crab was at a similar price point to shrimp, there were so many places even until somewhat recently (past ~7 years) that had all you can eat snow crab legs for $10-$15 bucks. People really liked their Alaskan crab legs, they were surprisingly affordable, the supply was endless… until they weren’t and the price skyrocketed and they’ve both, king and snow crab, became Luxury items, as they probably always should’ve been as much as that hurts to say as someone who wouldn’t have eaten so much Alaskan crab in the early 2000’s if they weren’t an affordable product for people to somewhat regularly stuff their faces with. Alaskan crab since like ~2015 or maybe slightly earlier has skyrocketed in pricing. They knew what they were doing and I’m sure deep down they knew the consequence, natural resources deplete especially when for decades they’ve been overfished to sh*t to be sold dirt cheap since the supply was seemingly endless for crab fisherman

[@stevencorbin9880]

60 boats is only a fraction of the 200 plus boat that fished crab in the Bering sea in the 70s,80,90s early 2000s before the state changed the rules and went to the quota system based on years of fishing and quantity of crab harvested. This knocked many of the boats out of the game more than 100 I believe since then people selling thier quota has consolidated the players even further. The Bering sea is over 1,000,000 square miles of ocean. Each boat is only allowed to catch thier allotted quota. The missing crab is far more likely do to a natural phenomenon not over fishing. Something similar happened to the king crab in the 80s they recovered after a few years. Hopefully that will happen again.

[@Joe_Real]

Bro who steals a billion crabs 💀

[@garycunningham9216]

Russians

[@Rnankn]

Why is this story about fisheries and industry, and not about the ecosystem and fish population.

[@NonEuclideanTacoCannon]

It's not that big of a mystery, I read about this last year. As the temperature of the water increases, they are unable to breed. So they are basically going extinct. Just one of the 150 species that go extinct literally every day now.

[@FultonRecovery]

it’s over

[@PJ-ku5lp]

Literally.

[@fredderf3152]

All it took was to watch one episode of “Deadliest Catch” to understand the reasons why….

[@rickybobby7276]

Cod supplies don’t seem to be a problem.

[@ghhm2705]

You realize not all fishing vessels are like that, right?

[@fredderf3152]

@@ghhm2705 … I also read where they can convert to fishing for other types like herring..

[@MrAntonio0819]

Who wouldn't have thought that taking millions of crabs out of the ocean every year will cause a population collapse.

[@rolturn]

Sounds like we need to give this industry a decade to rest and come back.

[@dougismakis4828]

Probably wont even help at this point. Look at the Atlantic cod. Was so many you couldnt even sail a boat through them. Now 30 years of total shutdown and numbers have never recovered. Also had to close Salmon for same reasons and now Makerel. Humans are too stupid to stop before its too late and even then we still have monkeys thinking its politics.

[@charlie-obrien]

At least ten years! And then only fish up to the level that is permitted. It is a shame for these "crab men", but hopefully their skills will translate to a new field.

[@dougismakis4828]

@@charlie-obrien Its a shame they didnt see it coming. Playing dumb isnt an excuse. They should of saw it coming and transitioned.

[@sherriianiro747]

@@charlie-obrien Exactly! That's what they did with the swordfish!

[@donaldkasper8346]

100% of females are thrown back, so only a few males will repopulate the whole thing.

[@jamescash887]

What people fail to realize is this isn’t just Alaskan fishermen doing this. Alaska has regulations on how much these boats can fish. What they don’t tell you is other nations like China don’t abide by those rules and are fishing the waters too. This is classic case of overfishing.

[@imadumass2378]

Exactly. A food war is coming

[@user-ke9yk5qp3u]

This has absolutely nothing to do with overfishing. This has everything to do with global warming and a changing food supply and the crabs are dying of starvation.

[@clintonchico9547]

1 family has 60 vessels. Each vessel for sure over fish' and there are thousands of vessels in those waters. What the hell do you think is going to happen?

[@mykalnorbert1592]

According to the News and Media outlets it's shutting down. I have family in Alaska and it's furthest from the truth just to jack up prices.

[@ghhm2705]

Me too. 😆They’re still working.

[@RajA-0202]

Too many seasons of Deadliest Catch will do that. Lol

[@cblizz730]

The crabs flew off to another planet where they didn't have to worry about the humans no longer.

[@rob5292]

You make millions for a 60 day trip it needs to be monitored more so this kind of thing doesn't happen again

[@DemPilafian]

The news reporter did a horrible job establishing the background of what happened. He just jumped straight to the human impact. If you haven't been following the story, this coverage would be confusing.

[@DemPilafian]

@Gale Drive Activist? How does not asking good questions make a reporter an activist?

[@josephmastroianni1560]

@Gale Drive Just FakeNewZ. Since a massacre in Boston. Media. It started a revolution. #Boston2024

[@DemPilafian]

@Gale Drive Ok, that makes sense. I still think it's more about the laziness we see over and over where reporters ask witnesses how they feel as if the emotional reaction of a witness is more newsworthy than the facts of the event.

[@JimBob-ib3iu]

the amount of climate deniers in here is utterly shocking and heart-wrenching

[@NJtoAzMountainBiker]

Climate change is nothing new. At least five major ice ages have occurred throughout Earth's history: the earliest was over 2 billion years ago, and the most recent one began approximately 3 million years ago and continues today (yes, we live in an ice age!). Currently, we are in a warm interglacial that began about 11,000 years ago.

[@jacobhatty6960]

Say, you are the one is completely ignorant.

[@NJtoAzMountainBiker]

@@jacobhatty6960 how so?

[@ghhm2705]

😂because some of us have been on this ride long enough, we’ve heard it all before…and they were wrong…

[@NJtoAzMountainBiker]

@@ghhm2705 Did not know anyone was around still from the previous ice age.

[@mjerome1457]

They have been over Fishing for years. Cancel the industry for 2 year….And stop polluting the Oceans.

[@anthonyjcaiazzojr8082]

Over fishing and climate change will impact more than the fishing industry.

[@Band_Aid_Man_]

I'm waiting for it....

[@onlythefactsplease]

Who would of thought taking 60 boats crab fishing for millions of pounds of crab every single year for decades would sustain itself. After making millions and millions for decades people want free money from other peoples pockets.

[@wavehaven1]

Halibut, Swordfish, Bluefin Tuna, Albacore got reduced to warning levels..now crab. Some just Kill Kill Kill without any kind of respect to the vast Oceanus.

[@davsquaredo79]

I don’t even eat crab like that but I’m glad they are doing this, leave the crabs alone for a couple years man.

[@jp92382]

Please someone have the balls to call this what it is - intentional culling of small businesses

[@itstayayg193]

Can we cancel it indefinitely?

[@Henofmayhem]

It sounds a lot like the “what about me” crowd is in need of government assistance. Ironic if the rest of us are against it. I’m sure crabs disappearing has nothing to do with our impact on the environment.

[@heymrnickerbocker]

Right. Why should the government help him with his business??? He knows they overfished.

[@Bdigital9482]

@@heymrnickerbocker right? It says warm water nothing to do with over fishing. And what’s wrong with a small business asking for help when the government took their survival. Do you agree with all the inner city assistance in our country for people who “refuse” to work and when they do are the worst employees I’ve ever encountered

[@adambomb30]

@@Bdigital9482 Bailing out small businesses would be socialism, and we can't have that.

[@heymrnickerbocker]

@@Bdigital9482 What I think about inner city help doesn't matter a bit. I would bet hard money HE DOESN'T agree with it. I have no problem with them giving the exact same amount they give to people in the inner city. News flash it ain't much and it's means tested to hell. So if he has no income sure he can get the same assistance those in the inner city get and not a penny more. He needs to go get AFDC and that's ALL!!

[@heymrnickerbocker]

@@adambomb30 how are you sure he is a small business?? I doubt it seriously!!!

[@sydboy10]

“Not sure why it happened” 😂 you guys are hauling thousands of crabs out each day thinking they can repopulate as much as the human race eats and its impossible

[@hp4415]

Look like you know nothing about the fishing industry. They can’t just catch as many as they want. Every year, they surveyed the ocean to estimate the population of the crab and determine how much they can harvest, fishermen have to follow the quota that government gives. Something really odd happened this year and they are trying find out what cause the dramatic decrease in the crab population.

[@sydboy10]

@@hp4415 dude i know there are seasons for it 😂 still not enough time in between seasons to rebuild what they take out

[@WhiteWolfos]

@@hp4415 la Nina warmed up the West and cooled the east. These guys get krabby if they don't find their perfect temperature to mate. Geologists are freaked out because it's so rare that it split much sooner and bigger. Might cause additional storms this year too

[@mordfustang1933]

You see how many damn crabs they pull up in those crates who could’ve guessed ??

[@BlastinRope]

god will just make more bro you dont think god has more crabs up his sleeves? have faith dude

[@X8WK]

@@BlastinRope can't tell if you're trolling, can only hope so....

[@charlie-obrien]

@@BlastinRope Nature makes crabs and everything else. Man is more than capable of decimating an entire species and our own ecosystems. And we are at the point where we see that coming to fruition. Hell, we're 20 years past that point.

[@Cha-y412]

The fisherman put themselves out of business.

[@emilyhubbard9978]

“No one really knows how this happened” says the commercial fisherman with dozens of mechanical sea harvesting machines each capable of catching thousands of crabs with the pull of a lever…

[@stayingwithit8632]

This is like the 10th time I’ve seen something eerily similar to the start of “The Day After Tomorrow”.

[@slimpickens01]

You mean Children of Men. White women are not producing babies like they did up until the 50s. This is happening globally with white women. Time's Up.....

[@Thunderbyrd.]

Yeah because movies are real life.

[@Thund3rDrag0n12]

@@Thunderbyrd. Life imitates art

[@vondahe]

You’ve haven’t seen anything yet. Mark my words.

[@iSleepNot]

“Book of eli” real soon

[@murrethmedia]

I remember this happened to Cod in the Grand Banks when I was a kid, devastated our fisheries here in Canada.

[@misterincognito6089]

Yeah, it may have. But it paved a way down the road that fishing was possible again, you can chose to do nothing, have one more, maybe 2 more successful years, and after that your bankrupt either way because the sea is empty.

[@evelynsaungikar3553]

It’s not back though. A tiny catch compared to past, is allowed, and it’s been 30 years.

[@kb_100]

30 years and it still hasn't recovered despite huge efforts to bring back the cod. It seems the cod population fell below a tipping point and it's not possible to bring it back.

[@jjm4643]

Great analogy. It has been said that the codfish was the founding fish of America and people in the 1800's and early 1900's thought they could never be wiped out. They were. The banks were scraped clean and one of the most important fisheries this country had ever seen was shut down. It remians to be seen if it will ever recover.

[@TheBooban]

@@jjm4643 yes, and this in a civilized country. Everywher else? And open, lawless seas?

[@justinhopper5941]

You thought people were savages in the buffet line before..now things are going to get crazy lol

[@marie7686]

They are saying it is not due to over fishing. They do have strict limits on how much they can take, they will even cut the season off after a few days. Crab wouldn't just disappear.

[@garycunningham9216]

I think the Crabs caught on to us.

[@triuong9683]

We, human beings, don't need to consume King or Snow crabs to survive. These expensive sea foods are for the wealthy people who don't have to worry what would they like to spend on...so give the poor crabs another chance.

[@RemedialRob]

I'm not wealthy by any means but I will devour some crab given the chance. That said I usually can only afford it at a casino.

[@trying3841]

Oh please, poor people on food stamps eat snow crab and steak. The middle class doesn’t eat this meat. -former cashier

[@Concepcion30]

And who needs the extra cholesterol from all shellfish in general? I don’t want anyone to lose their livelihoods, but with the population ever increasing, this kind of large scale harvesting is unsustainable.

[@robertrobert7924]

This has also happened in the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland. There was a moratorium on fishing for Rock Fish for enough years for that species to recover. Since Humans have become the Apex Killer Ape and overpopulated the Earth they have to regulate the populations of wildlife in order to keep them from becoming extinct. Success stories about monitoring populations of species like Bison, Whales, Deer, and Seafood species show that Conservation can work. More work needs to be done on water pollution and altering dams so all fish species who need to go upstream to spawn are able to migrate upstream to their spawning areas.

[@walleyperch]

You hit it on the head - overpopulation - way too many friggin people - we're getting very close to the tipping point.

[@standupforgood7810]

We are not** overpopulated. We are grossly mismanaged. And by grossly, I mean the gross GDP Index which only counts the money (Sick Society) and doesn't include quality of all peoples lives, nor, does it give the first 💩 about the environment. God Despises stuPidity

[@crushedrgb]

We need mandatory population laws to stop human growth. Sterilize all people with IQ’s under 100 and carry out all death sentences for death row inmates. I have other ideas..

[@duke9430]

Same thing with Orange roughy

[@stevo3938]

Ahh Robert Robert

[@Jerubarbaruah]

No one is mentioning it, but the heat dome in '21 killed estimated billions of sea life. There is no way that didn't affect these populations some way.

[@lionelbutler6541]

The days of seeing snow crab on sale at Kroger a few years ago at $6.99 a pound are permanently mere memory.

[@markw.2106]

Government bailout or assistance? Not sure I get that. I've lost jobs, I've been in industries that changed and lost a job that way, but I never even considered asking all my neighbors to give me money. Since the "Government" doesn't produce anything, any money you'd get would be from me and my taxes. I feel bad for your family, but there are other supposedly pressing issues that the "Government" is going to grab my money for, you guys are down that list a bit ...

[@CarrieMeii]

Seriously. Not to mention these crabs sell for a lot of money, they’re not struggling

[@sparrowflying864]

Nobody bat's an eye when the banks get bail out and big business gets bail outs but when it's hard working fishermen trying to feed their families everyone has something to say. How are these people going to just up and move or find another job? When the whole place is built on fisheries!

[@jimbeam2705]

I bet that you're happy to bail out irresponsible students with the student loan forgiveness program from the great Potatohead head in chief.

[@markw.2106]

@@jimbeam2705 actually no, I paid my debts, I also don't think college is for everybody and I certainly don't think a history major does anybody any good. I'm not against a government loan or something for industries struggling a bit but handouts never work.

[@robinharris6771]

Yes, my career was in manufacturing. New product R+D machinist. Manufacturing went to China. Layoffs. The last 10 years before I retired I was a school custodian. I got by. I noticed that when a tradesman loses their job, nobody cares. But if a teacher loses their job....its weeping and gnashing of teeth. How is the carburetor business these days? Life gets hard sometimes, I don't think a Fed bailout is appropriate. But the state of Alaska can evaluate the future of the crab industry vs the Alaska economy. If Alaska decides to preserve the industry, Thats Alaska's business.

[@adssco120]

Its always amused me how the blame is focused on the commercial fishermen that simply have a job to do. That job is to head out and pluck food from the ocean for the demanding consumer. Its the consumer who is to blame for over fishing our oceans Not the fisher. AND as any commercial fisherman knows, the real money is handed to the processors and retailers. Fishermen only get what's left after the ticket has been clipped.

[@whiskersistersofficial2698]

Poor crabs... they have always paid the price for humanity's insatiable hunger. These fishermen could potentially get a different job or file for bankruptcy, they could file for unemployment and still eat. Even the homeless shelters make sure people are fed. These crabs could be gone forever, notwithstanding the damage done to the ecosystem of the surrounding waters where they have been fished and consumed. Crabs are necessary for the eco system to function properly...without them, it will fall apart. All the people feeling sorry for the fishermen need to gain empathy for all living creatures, not just humans.

[@annieleonheart7593]

Who eats snow crab? I can’t even afford to buy shrimp

[@eveblot4195]

@Ned Steinberger that's why i eat mechanically separated meats product.

[@pohanahawaii]

🌱 Go Veg, it's the best for everybody involved.

[@milagrosroman2882]

@@pohanahawaii Not true.

[@KciRred]

I love seafood boils I eat sjowcrab often 🤤

[@DR-sv8ke]

@@pohanahawaii except if everyone went vegetarian, there wouldn't be enough land to provide food for everyone. If you really think about what it would take and the effect everyone going vegetarian would have on entire industries and the planet, you would see its not possible.

[@Gargoyle3438]

"Something a little different happened" within that time period alright.

[@stevemace1725]

fukushima? russia and Chinese taking what they want?

[@ThePneumaniac]

Them: "hi we killed off an entire population of animal which will cause a major ripple effect through the industry, we don't care that we destroyed the population of the thing that we made money off of, but could someone give us money for that we don't fail after causing the population of what made us money to fail?!?!"

[@eatshiy]

What the hell did they expect? Somehow these crabs are "magical"?😖

[@danteruiz8955]

Bet Russia will be fishing this season

[@jshuyaclips1616]

Just imagine a large Alien mothership coming along and beaming up 9B humans and leaving the other 1B to repopulate... It would take a long time to re-establish that population!

[@crazychase98]

Its more like beaming up 1 billion amf leaving 8 billion

[@peterg6953]

Scientists aren't attributing the disappearance to overfishing.

[@spainer79]

except humans don't lay 16,000 to 160,000 eggs every year.

[@Shadow__133]

I would do my part in at least trying to repopulate 🤷‍♂️

[@slimpickens01]

@@Shadow__133 too late, Becky's womb is cursed globally.

[@kilo6490]

GTFO of here with your “assistance cries”. My dads a crab fisherman, I’ve been around it all my life. Populations rise and fall. Fisherman choose to do a job that’s never guaranteed. They take a risk in many ways and one of those ways is hoping the next season will pay the bills. If there’s no population of catch to support a season it’s not the governments job to pay fisherman’s bill for a year or two or three. I’m so sick of this handout mentality.

[@justinbailey1756]

People treat the ocean like it's an infinite supply of resources. It's obscene.

[@MegaMike7]

Alaska has done a wonderful job responsibly managing the fishing industry. Asia has not, and does nothing to manage harvesting. The king salmon population is a good indicator of this.

[@derekj1532]

Finally someone said this

[@gvanys]

King crab was already like almost $50 a pound this won't affect allot people not that many families are spending $50 a pound on crab.

[@genesispuredeaf2390]

It affects every family that depends on the economy which it drives…. The long term impacts are devastating.

[@jrey6186]

100% ... rich person's problem, yawn

[@Shadow__133]

@@genesispuredeaf2390 Imagine depending on a renewable commodity you helped extinguish.

[@genesispuredeaf2390]

@@Shadow__133 like petroleum…or do you still think that it is dinosaur juice? I am quite familiar with the fisheries and the management that the US imposes to maintain their sustainability. I was surprised to see a back room “green” solution implemented in the NE where the ridiculous “solutions” priced out the individuals who had been caretaking over what fed them for over 40 years. The fisheries went bad and in a single round table meeting which included all appropriate stakeholders, the green solution (now known to be damaging) was reversed, bringing back profit to the communities, rebuilt economies that were crushed, and rebuild the fishery. This is all searchable and can be validated. Now about your suggested “wet dream”, wanna try and explain how that is gonna work? Will Russia and China also stop fishing as well….or do the crabs know to not cross an invisible line in the Bering seas. You guys crack me up with your feelings….bring some facts when you come back (or don’t bother).

[@Shadow__133]

@@genesispuredeaf2390 My feelings have little to do with the fact that, like petroleum, crabs are finite. Do you propose to hunt down to the very last crab just because in some remote location a Chinese fisherman may beat you to it? It's game over, the crab population is reduced below acceptable levels in Alaska. The good news is it may come back in a couple years and there are plenty of substitutes in other regions (it's a big ocean). Have you tried the Chilean Centolla? Pretty darn close.

[@andyreed553]

Why would I feel bad for these people? Stop over fishing. It's their own fault.

[@John-mm2yl]

I think the crabs deserve a break after becoming a meme

[@JerryGiesler09]

Interesting to see what the captains and crews of “The Deadliest Catch” have to say about this.

[@beermike2169]

They'll just go to norway like captain sig and wild bill did last season.

[@rogerhegemier8491]

For Myself i very seldom go out to eat and order Crab, i just can't see paying those prices !!! But so many people have a lot more money, so they eat all the Crab they want, well now no one is going to eat crab, Rich or not !!! We all will have to go without !!!! And no one wants to mention, that there are just too many people on this Planet !!! What's going to be next in our future !!!

[@ghhm2705]

@@my2cents809 No they’re not. They’re in Dutch Harbor now, bonehead. They’re working.

[@viasevenvai]

“I’ve been fishing and expanding my business for decades…” yeah, that’s the issue that’s showing itself. Imagine the cost of NOT letting crabs restabilize.

[@Joshua-mu6px]

Yeah it's part of the unstable whether we have here in Texas in the Gulf they had to raise a lot of the length limits, Because of the deep freeze we had a year back.

[@randomstuffwithnofluff7472]

Goverment: "Sorry we can't help the fishing industry, we're spending all of the money supporting illegal immigrants and entitlement programs".

[@mikemike9449]

It's not personal! It's about saving a species from over harvesting

[@richpaydirt]

The king crab season has been closed to American fishermen before. However, its much like the man-made climate change issue. Unless the rest of the world gets on board with it, things will continue to go downhill. Russia and China won’t be cancelling their crab season this year or any other.

[@Rink03]

'man-made' my foot, its the height of hubris to think humans going about their daily lives can affect the weather adversely.

[@johngage5391]

We can use Border Carbon Adjustments to motivate Russia and China to follow our lead on climate. But we need a price on carbon to use them. A cash-back carbon fee on fossil fuel production is a good way to do that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6DcmKiGadN_rJI

[@Rink03]

@A Z Yep

[@Shadow__133]

Chile is the name you are looking for...

[@xevious2501]

Exacty ! i see this as a good thing. We see how the fishing industry hammers species population each year each season non stop all with this insane notion that such fishing stock will never diminish, Well the fish have spoken, our greed has been put in check. Giving nature proper time to replenish itself is something that should always be top priority even if it means ending your practice for a decade or more. Those vessels may seem like less than a drop in a bucket in comparison to the vastness of the oceans, but when you look up in the sky, is it saturated with birds? no. not at all. so if you were harvesting birds the damage you could do could be immense in comparison to the logic of sighting a vast sky and how many birds should occupy it at any given time. More over the fishing industries must double down on those who are willing to break the laws simply to gain profit. China for instance has vastly overfished its waters and have routinely send vessels out into foreign water to take their stocks illegally. faced with being sunk by local boarder patrols. greed, we have to get a grip on greed.

[@mikeymill9120]

Crab are not fish 😂 The crab harvest has quotas, specific seasons, and is regulated. But thank you, your post is a fine example of an opinion devoid of fact. 👏

[@xevious2501]

@@mikeymill9120 Duh obviously i know this. And although crabs are not fish as in species they do fall under the rules of the fishing industry, does it not? And yes there are regulations in regard to what can be sought after, caught and kept aka harvested on a seasonal basis.. but another fact is that no one ever knows exactly how many of the species actually exist, as its all educated guestimates. No one actually knows defined numbers. But in this industry no one speaks in terms of their numbers being hurt, they only speak in terms of how many can be caught while the season is open. How big a pay day can be had. And in that mentality so we sit here now forced to close all fishing because they simply dont know where the crabs have gone off too. or by way of looking at past catch records what the numbers are telling them.

[@mikeweir3680]

Yupper you said it, greed...I have one more to go with that...Ego!! It's Greed & Ego that will bring an end to everything we now know as life...And if only people were a little more self-aware this crap could all be avoided...Einstien said it right "There are only 2 things as I see as infinite, 1 is the Universe, and 2 is Man's Stupidity...And I'm not sure about the Universe"...He had it figured out...sad LOL

[@xevious2501]

@@mikeweir3680 NICE!!

[@jbrudert]

Chinese r to blame

[@vbjoker]

The only problem I see is that snow crab/king crabs prices aren’t a necessity product. So it’s going to be hard sell to the rest of states saying we need to support them if only a small percentage of people purchase those items.

[@donaldkasper8346]

I cannot afford crab. 15 years ago in Seward I had crab and 20 years ago in San Francisco. Now, as a kid in San Francisco in the 60's, we got crab all the time at the fisherman's wharf. That was the last time it was affordable.

[@2011blueman]

Not only that, but since they privatized the fishery all the quota was bought up by the big boats so really the guy was talking about giving subsidies to extremely wealthy people because they destroyed the fishery. We can't be giving taxpayer funds to extremely wealthy people when they destroy public resources. That's insanity.