Commercial Fishing Video Of The Day | Understanding The Bering Sea Crab Collaspe

Via YouTube: The Bering Sea snow crab season was canceled this year after billions of crabs disappeared – devastating a commercial fishing industry worth $200 million dollars and the livelihoods of those who depend on it. Now, fishermen and researchers are working to figure out what happened. On this Alaska Insight, host Lori Townsend is joined by Gabriel Prout, a crab fisherman and owner of the fishing vessel, Silver Spray, and Erin Fedewa, a fisheries biologist with the federal government, to discuss the impacts and potential causes of the crash.

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