Billions of Alaska snow crabs likely vanished due to warm ocean, study says

The crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA

Warmer ocean temperatures have likely caused the sudden and shocking disappearance of billions of snow crabs in Alaska, which had previously baffled scientists and environmentalists, a new study has shown.

The eastern Bering Sea snow crabs, once thought to be overfished, actually starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs considerably", scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in the study.