A crab became a snack for a sea predator with “stinging tentacles” on an Oregon shoreline, a photo shows. The crustacean was snagged by a carnivorous g iant green anemone at the Seal Rock ...

Alaska’s snow crab show resilience to ocean acidification, which is underway in the Bering Sea. Study a possible bright spot for species hammered by a warmth-triggered crash.

The 2022-23 Bering Sea snow crab harvest was canceled because of low ... a National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries biologist who is one of the leaders of the council’s team that ...

The study also showed that during their evolution, crabs appear to have adapted to a more terrestrial lifestyle as many as 17 times, either by shifting from the ocean to the intertidal zone or ...

In 2018, about 3 billion mature snow crabs (Chionoecetes opilio) inhabited the Bering Sea along with roughly five billion immature crabs, the Seattle Times reported.But by late 2021, those numbers ...

[Alaska cancels Bering Sea king and snow crab seasons over worries of population collapse] But consecutive years of extreme warmth in the Bering Sea, conditions that precluded much ice formation ...

Crabs have a habit of evolving to live away from the ocean. The crustaceans have clambered out of the sea and made homes in land-based habitats between seven and 17 different times since they ...

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 ...

For Bering Sea snow crab, which in 2021 dwindled to the lowest abundance of adults observed in the 50-year record, the crash took multiple steps.. The low abundance in 2021 followed what was a ...