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An important update regarding Alaska snow crabs

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by officelife, Oct 14, 2022.

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  1. Oct 14, 2022 #1
    officelife

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    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.
     
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  2. Oct 14, 2022 #2
    wgbgator

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    That's bad news, but I'm mostly trying to make sense of the thread title
     
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  3. Oct 14, 2022 #3
    ThePlayer

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    Apparently, your Momma doesn't have the crabs anymore. o_Oo_O
     
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  4. Oct 14, 2022 #4
    FutureGatorMom

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    Can we have some good news? I don't need phenomenal news, just good.
     
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  5. Oct 14, 2022 #5
    WESGATORS

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    Updated thread title

    Go GATORS!
    ,WESGATORS
     
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  6. Oct 14, 2022 #6
    wgbgator

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    Sorry but its even weirder and makes less sense now :)
     
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  7. Oct 14, 2022 #7
    citygator

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    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.
     
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  8. Oct 14, 2022 #8
    back2back2006

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    It should say "Yo momma.".
     
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  9. Oct 14, 2022 #9
    wgbgator

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    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.
     
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  10. Oct 14, 2022 #10
    jhenderson251

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    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"
     
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  11. Oct 14, 2022 #11
    Gator515151

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    Crab Lives Matter
     
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  12. Oct 14, 2022 #12
    RIP

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    That's a lot of missing crabs. Could it be from illegal fishing from foreign countries?
     
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  13. Oct 14, 2022 #13
    officelife

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    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.
     
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  14. Oct 14, 2022 #14
    citygator

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    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”
     
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  15. Oct 14, 2022 #15
    danmanne65

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    This was my first thought as well.
     
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  16. Oct 14, 2022 #16
    officelife

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    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.
     
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  17. Oct 14, 2022 #17
    tampagtr

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    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 6th.jpg
     
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  18. Oct 14, 2022 #18
    DesertGator

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    It's likely a "So long and thanks for all the fish" moment
     
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    antny1

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    Deadliest-catch.jpg

    Pretty much what we all feared...
     
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  20. Oct 14, 2022 #20
    14serenoa

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    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?
     
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