Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs In a major blow to America's seafood industry, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has, for the first time in state history, canceled the winter snow crab season in the Bering Sea due to their falling numbers. While restaurant menus will suffer, scientists worry what the sudden population plunge means for the health of the Arctic ecosystem. An estimated one billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in two years, state officials said. It marks a 90% drop in their population.
Crab Covid? Some kind of disease could have plowed through them. Hopefully they just migrated though. I’m not sure the Bible has an end times sign related to crabs so we might be ok.
I was thinking the crab Rapture. The end times for crabs are upon us. The worthy crabs have ascended to crab heaven and the crab antichrist will reign.
I want to give you both a dislike and a fist bump at the same time... Also, this is my formal proposal for mods to retitle all threads that make no sense to "Your Momma"
To get the joke out of the way, to make you click, and to avoid a boring thread title. 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
Thread title update #3 is even worse. Sounds like a Mod announcement for a site wide ban on Alaskan crab. I like “It’s official, FSU is a more likely place to find crabs than Alaska”
I thought about titling it “Winston has been placed on IR until the 23 season due to crab shortages”, but I thought it might get moved before read.
Probably not this, what she wrote about was with the acidification of the ocean and more temperate zones, but this is the first thing I thought about
the AK marine biologists are slacking up there. How do two billion crabs disappear in one season? That they moved to cooler waters seems plausible. Someone has some 'splaining to do. A rapid complete population collapse seems less plausible. Are other associated marine species still present? Are other crab species still present in normal numbers?
