by #JuliaOMalley @grist:

"Some 330 people, most of them Indigenous, live in the village of St. Paul, about 800 miles west of Anchorage, where the local economy depends almost entirely on the commercial snow crab business. Over the last few years, 10 billion snow crabs have unexpectedly vanished from the Bering Sea. I was traveling there to find out what the villagers might do next."

https://grist.org/food/alaska-snow-crab-vanish-st-paul-island/

#Indigenous #StPaul #Alaska #food #SnowCrabs #sustainability #BeringSea #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #climate #GlobalWarming #environment #Grist

There are markets where Alaskan snow crabs are seen as an expensive luxury food item.

'As the world warms, extended spikes in ocean temperatures are triggering the collapse of key marine populations. For the Aleut community of St. Paul, Alaska, the loss of the snow crab fishery is having a profound economic impact and raising questions about the future.'

https://e360.yale.edu/features/snow-crabs-alaska-bering-sea-climate-change

#climate #climatechange #Alaska #snowcrabs #fishing #oceans