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“The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery for the prior two seasons were closed based on low abundance and particularly low abundance of mature-sized female crabs,” said Mark Stichert, the state department’s ground fish and shellfish management coordinator,

Most of the predatory ground fish that are more abundant to the south, like Pacific cod, don’t tolerate those temperatures.

There are more subarctic ground fish that can come into that area.

So one hypothesis is that warming waters allowed predatory ground fish into the snow crab range, and that there was a massive predation event.

“When I was a teenager, in summertimes I worked in a lobster boat that went long-lining for ground fish – cod, haddock, hake – that were dominant in the Gulf of Maine.”