Rare hybrid crabs flood the Bering Sea catch, and regulators adjust…

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIn twenty twenty-five, trawlers in the Bering Sea started pulling up rare hybrid crabs in record numbers, thirteen point four times the historical average.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNearly half of the snow crabs available to catch were hybrids, when they never used to top ten percent.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the snow crab population went from about eight billion in twenty eighteen to about one billion by twenty twenty-one. So the crabs didn't vanish.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThey got a new look and applied again.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorResearcher Fedewa says the loss of sea ice during a marine heatwave drove the collapse. It's a very sad story with a hopeful hybrid ending.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRegulators raised the catch limit from eight point three million pounds to nine point three million so boats could go after the hybrids.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBut managers have no authority to set a separate limit for hybrids.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the plan for too few snow crabs is to count a different crab as a snow crab.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's how I do my taxes with my cousin's dog.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorCrab accounting.