Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab, the largest and most lucrative of all the Bering Sea crab species, for the first time in two years. The news offers a slight reprieve to the beleaguered fishery beset by low numbers likely exacerbated by climate change. There was no such rebound for snow crab, however, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced Friday that fishery will remain closed amid population declines. Scientists think that population decline was a result of two years of low sea ice cover and abnormally warm ocean temperatures due to climate change may have altered the ecosystem in a way that snow crab couldn’t survive.
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day.FILE - A person walks across the dock at St. Paul Harbor, Thursday, June 22, 2023, in Kodiak, Alaska.
“Based on survey results from this year, those numbers have improved, some signs of modest optimism in terms of improving abundance in Bristol Bay red king crab overall and that has allowed for a small but still conservative fishery for 2023 as the total population size is still quite low,” he said.If you can’t beat them, eat them: Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer
More than 2.65 million pounds were caught in 2020. The fishery saw nearly 130 million pounds caught in 1980 before declining for the next three decades.
Deutschland Neuesten Nachrichten, Deutschland Schlagzeilen
Similar News:Sie können auch ähnliche Nachrichten wie diese lesen, die wir aus anderen Nachrichtenquellen gesammelt haben.
Bering Sea crab surveys show populations still low a year after marquee Alaska harvests closedWith snow crab and red king crab stocks still ailing, state officials are due to decide soon whether harvests will be allowed in the coming year
Weiterlesen »
Alaska fishermen will be allowed to harvest lucrative red king crab in the Bering SeaThe news offers a slight reprieve to the beleaguered fishery beset by low numbers likely exacerbated by climate change.
Weiterlesen »
Alaska Seaplanes to close Petersburg and Wrangell locationsAlaska Seaplanes is the only commuter airline service in competition with Alaska Airlines in Southeast Alaska.
Weiterlesen »
Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in AmericasThe evidence challenges the once-conventional wisdom that humans didn’t reach the Americas until a few thousand years before rising sea levels covered the Bering land bridge between Russia and Alaska.
Weiterlesen »
Footprints found at ancient lake in New Mexico challenge old belief of first humans in AmericasNew research finds that humans might have first entered the New World not over the Bering land bridge between Russia and Alaska, but thousands of years earlier.
Weiterlesen »
After 3 years, former Alaska lawmaker will face election-tampering trial in NovemberFormer Rep. Gabrielle LeDoux of Anchorage was indicted in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic and several subsequent delays have put off her trial until now.
Weiterlesen »