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More than 10 billion snow crabs disappeared in 2022, devastating a commercial fishing industry worth $200 million the year before. Now researchers are working to figure out what happened. And they think warmer ocean water could be to blame.

Experts say what's happening to crab numbers in the Bering Sea may be a combination of factors, but climate change is first and foremost among those factors. Even so, this is a precipitous decline - suggesting some other factor, like a virulent disease, is compounding the effects of climate change.

More than 10 billion Bering Sea snow crabs disappeared in Alaska between the years 2018 and 2022, devastating a commercial fishing industry worth $200 million just last year. The population crash coincided with a marine heat wave that hit the Bering Sea.

As we have explained, king crab has a short harvesting season, which leads to limited availability. They also have a limited cold water habitat. Additionally, they have a lobster-like flavor. This makes king crab the more expensive of the two; snow crab legs are typically more affordable than king crab ones.

More than 10 billion snow crabs disappeared in 2022, devastating a commercial fishing industry worth $200 million the year before. Now researchers are working to figure out what happened. And they think warmer ocean water could be to blame.

Warmer temperatures can lead to starvation and higher rates of disease. At the Kodiak Fisheries Research Center, state and federal researchers are piecing together how all those factors contributed to the crabs' collapse. Tanks filled with seawater pumped in from the bay replicate conditions on the seafloor.

Experts widely agree that global warming likely played a major role in the crabs vanishment - but they are still trying to figure out the details of how. To get a sense of what may have caused this mysterious mass die-off and why the fishing and scientific communities had been taken by surprise, Slate spoke with Dr.

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Disease or rising water temperatures due to climate change has likely contributed to the 90% population drop, leaving an estimated one billion crabs missing over two years, according to CBS News.

Scientists from Newcastle, York, Hull and Durham universities had found last year that pyridine was highly toxic to crabs. The work, commissioned by the North East Fishing Collective after a crowdfunding appeal, suggests pyridine could have killed thousands of crabs in the region.