The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced that Alaska’s Bering Sea’s Snow Crab Season is canceled for 2022-23 in a notice on the 10th of October. Doug Vincent-Lang, the commissioner of the ADF&G, wrote how the department (ADF&G) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recently completed the analysis of the 2022 NMFS trawl survey for Bering Sea Snow Crab. The analysis suggests that the stock is estimated to be lesser than what it takes to open a fishery i.e. below the ADF&G regulatory threshold. Thus, the Bering Sea snow crab will be closed for the 2022-23 season.  Furthermore, … Continue reading Alaska’s Sea Snow Crab Season Canceled as Billions Die-Off