Snow Crab Collapse Due to Ecological Shift in the Bering Sea
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Arctic conditions that dominated in the preindustrial Bering Sea are expected to continue to decline over the next 1-2 decades.
  • Drusas
    2•3 months ago

    They found a decline in sea ice, and an increase in:

    • Pseudocalanus copepod abundance

    • Bitter crab disease in snow crab (thought to be fatal), i

    • Areas of spring open-water algal blooms

    • Pacific cod abundance (a snow crab predator)

    • Summer bottom temperatures

    I, for one, am ready to do my part and eat more cod.