Billions of Snow Crabs Have Vanished From Alaskan Waters



Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from Alaska water

Scientists are perplexed after billions of crabs and crustaceans mysteriously vanished.

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They disappeared mysteriously in the Bering Sea off the US state of Alaska in the last several years.

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CNN the snow crab population shrank from about 8 billion in 2018 to 1 billion in 2021.

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“Snow crab is by far the most abundant of all the Bering Sea crab species that is caught commercially

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Daly stated. "It is worth mentioning the shock and wonder of many billions of people being missing from the population."

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Billions of Snow Crabs Have Vanished From Alaskan Waters

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Environmental conditions are changing rapidly,” Daly told CBS News

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We’ve seen warm conditions in the Bering Sea the last couple of years

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