“We lost billions of snow crab in a matter of months,” said Bob Foy of the AK Fisheries Science Center. “We don’t have a smoking gun, if you will. We don’t have one particular event that impacted the snow crab — except the heat wave.” (from AlaskaBeacon)
, which relies on the crab harvests for more than 90% of its tax revenue.There are limits to what the North Pacific Fishery Management Council can do to manage crab stocks. Crab harvests are managed by the state, even for stocks existing in federal waters, though the council and federal agencies provide support and scientific information to assist and cooperate in that management.
Warm temperatures may have wiped out much of the crab population, but that is not something that can be corrected immediately, said Jamie Goen, Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers’ executive director.
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