The Alaska Department of Fisheries and Game has canceled
crab season
for the first time in the state's history due to a drastic decline in the number of crabs.
The New York Times reports it.
Biologists have warned that in just three years, about 90 percent of these crustaceans have disappeared from 2018 to 2021.
Among the causes is the
warming of the waters of the Bering Sea
but also, more generally, that Alaska is the US state that is suffering most of all the consequences of climate change.
The Arctic spider crab fishing season was due to start today.