{"id":1653,"date":"2023-11-28T12:52:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2023-11-28T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T12:52:57","slug":"the-crabs-are-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"The Crabs Are Disappearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By: Clay Lorigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disappearance of animals in everyday life is not out of the ordinary. However, when over 10 billion of them vanish, someone could assume there would be more attention brought to it. This was not the case for the Alaskan snow crab. Many people do not know that from 2018-2022, there was a major decrease in the number of crabs in the Bering Sea. Scientists are still trying to figure out what could have caused this sudden crash, and many believe it\u2019s due to warmer waters and the lack of sea ice. This ice is a very important part of these crabs\u2019 lives, and with it gone starvation and disease can arise. Because of this decrease in the crab population, Alaska canceled its entire snow crab harvest for the 2022 season. Due to this cancellation, it is said that the fishery lost over $287 million dollars. \u00a0<br>Scientists are still trying to figure out what caused this disappearance and most believe it\u2019s due to global warming and warmer seas. Another theory on what happened is that when the sea warmed up, there was a sudden increase in disease that killed off many of them. They also investigated the idea that they may have just moved from the southeast to the north of the sea. However, when they did look, they found that none of them had moved there.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<br>When <strong>Brenna Spencer<\/strong> (ADT) was asked if she had heard of this disappearance. She said, \u201cNo, I had no idea.\u201d She was then asked if she had any idea of what could have happened, she replied, \u201cThey probably just moved into colder waters since they\u2019re artic animals.\u201d Like Brenna, <strong>Noah Wysocki <\/strong>(ADT), <strong>Syndee Petruzzi <\/strong>(BioMed), and <strong>Max Delp-Gray <\/strong>(ADT) all said they have not heard of the crabs going missing. Although, they all had different opinions on what could have happened to them. Noah said,\u201d I think they probably died.\u201d In the same boat, Syndee said, \u201cThey might have eaten plastic and died.\u201d Contrasting to all of these, Max brings up a different point. He said, \u201cIf I had to guess, it could be due to overfishing during COVID.\u201d \u00a0<br>There are many theories as to what happened. Either way, it was starting a phenomenon.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/ebd9e565-53b6-462c-b7b5-e3cfd451e7da\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Clay Lorigan The disappearance of animals in everyday life is not out of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1656,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}