10 billion snow crabs have disappeared off the Alaskan coast. Here’s why

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• KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “It’s just yet another example of something we didn’t expect, but now we have to live with,” says Christopher Harley, a marine ecologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver

  This caught me off guard as such a sad statement both for now and for whatever else climate change will decide to do.

  There is no conceivable way to know the damage we are doing and yet the damage will be done and we will need to bear those consequences.

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  • Dangdoggo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unfortunately as this so well illustrates many of the effects are happening on a long enough timeline that we won't be able to see until we can look back on the data and that's also pretty alarming

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  • BestBouclettes@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What we know about climate change is already devastating, I can’t really imagine what we don’t know about it.

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On average, snow crabs bring in about $150 million of annual revenue for Alaskan fisheries

  Of course the article had to mention money. This is sad for a multitude of reasons, and this isn’t one of them.

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  • Dangdoggo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    But the comparison between 150 M in fishable crab and 24 M in fishable crab does help illustrate how heavy the effects have been. Believe me, I hate the need to illustrate things in dollar signs too but it is an effective tool when many peoples frames of reference are geared that way. I guess I'm just devils advocating

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• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Spoiler: humans

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• AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It was me! I ate them.

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• Lon3star@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a large number

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