Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game has canceled the state’s winter snow crab season due to a dramatic plummet in the crustacean’s numbers. An estimated one billion crabs have mysteriously disappeared in two years, state officials said, marking a 90% drop in their population.
Scientists are investigating what caused the crabs to vanish, but climate change is a likely culprit.
The fate of the animals is "a canary in a coal mine for other species that need cold water," one researcher said.
LINK (Gizmodo)