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Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death. (www.cnn.com)
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[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

One type of snow crab has adults reaching 1-4 lbs, or 0.45 to 1.81 kg, so the round numbers would perhaps be either 2 lbs or 1 kg. Sticking with metric for laziness that's 5,999,800 tonnes of crab. It's roughly about the same for imperial tons also.

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