Alaska's snow crab season canceled for the first time ever, officials perplexed by mysterious disappearance of 1 billion crabs



A mysterious disappearance of an estimated 1 billion snow crabs has forced Alaska to cancel the winter snow crab season – the first time in state history.

On Monday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) canceled the entire 2022-2023 snow crab season.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game declared, "The stock is estimated to be below the ADF&G regulatory threshold for opening a fishery. Therefore, Bering Sea snow crab will remain closed for the 2022/23 season."

For the second year in a row, ADF&G officials canceled the Bristol Bay red king crab harvest for the 2022-2023 season.

There has been a sudden and dramatic plunge in crab stocks in the region.

Miranda Westphal – an area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game – noted that the conservation organization had seen the "largest pulse of small crab we’d ever seen in the history of the fishery" in 2018.

However, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game told USA Today that there was a whopping 92% decrease in overall snow crab abundance from 2018 to 2021. Last year's snow crab harvest was 5.6 million pounds – the smallest in more than 40 years.

An estimated 1 billion snow crabs have mysteriously disappeared in two years, state officials told CBS News.

Westphal said the 2021 harvest was "the biggest crash we’ve ever seen in snow crab."

"That was really unexpected," she added. "I don’t think anyone saw this coming."

Scientists are bewildered by the sudden disappearance of snow crabs.

The Seattle Times reported, "Scientists are still researching the causes of the snow crab population collapse, which likely include increased predation as well as stresses from the warmer water that caused crabs’ metabolisms to increase and could have led to starvation."

Ben Daly – a researcher with ADF&G – said, "Disease is one possibility."

The cancelation of the snow crab season could cost the state's economy $200 million and could be career-ending for some.

Dean Gribble Sr. – a crab boat captain who has fished for snow crab since the late 1970s – told NBC News, "It's going to be life-changing, if not career-ending, for people. A lot of these guys with families and kids, there’s no option other than getting out. That’s where the hammer is going to fall – on the crew."

The ADF&G said going forward, "Management of Bering Sea snow crab must now focus on conservation and rebuilding, given the condition of the stock."

In 1983, there was a similar crash that wiped out a massive amount of the population of the Alaskan king crabs. At the time, scientists were perplexed by the mysterious disappearance of Alaskan king crab and blamed factors "ranging from parasitic disease to increasing losses to predatory fish species to warmer ocean currents to overfishing."

The canceled snow crab season will contribute to the ever-growing food shortages that have been felt worldwide.

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America's beef supply is expected to shrink as drought and rising production costs prevent ranchers from growing their herds



Beef prices are likely to continue rising as U.S. based cattle ranchers continue to shrink the size of their herds.

This move is expected to further constrain U.S. beef production in the coming months, the Wall Street Journal reported. Data from the federal government confirms that rising costs for feed and other expenses are encouraging ranchers to sell to sell calves into feedlots around the country at a faster rate which leaves fewer cattle available for slaughter. It is expected that this will become more pronounced later this year and into 2023.

Persistent drought conditions throughout the Western U.S. have decimated grazing pastures which causes cattle farmers to spend more money on supplemental feed which presents another major problem for the beef industry.

By 2023, beef production is expected to decline by 7% and cattle prices are expected to increase to record highs. These increased costs and shrinking supply pose serious problems for meatpackers like Tyson Foods Inc., JBS USA holdings Inc., Cargill Inc., and National Beef Packing Co. It is likely that the increased cost of beef production is already being passed onto consumers. The more expensive it is to raise and maintain cows, and as fewer cows are raised for slaughter, the more expensive beef products will eventually cost. Ground beef and chicken prices have already reached all-time highs.

Jeanie Alderson, a fourth-generation rancher in Birney, Montana, said that she sold about 75 aging mother cows from her heard of around 250 in recent months. Typically, Alderson would buy new cows in the spring to replace the ones she sold off but she said that it has been too expensive for her to take any more into her herd this year.

Alderson indicated that wildfires in the southeastern portion of Montana are burning up the pastures where her cattle typically feed and that some of her fellow Montana ranchers have had to spend more money on expensive livestock feeds. These additional expenses and hardships are causing ranchers to reduce the size of the herds.

Alderson said, “It’s really stressful. A lot of ranchers are in deep, deep debt and if they have to go more in debt, some people will go out of business in the next few years.”

Drought conditions and higher operating costs encouraged ranchers to rapidly cull beef cows in the first quarter of 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Iowa State University estimates that American cattle producers have lost money five of the past eight months.

The Baby Formula Shortage Is Just Another Crisis Biden Ignored Until It Was Too Late

President Joe Biden has become skilled at ignoring crises, and the nationwide infant formula shortage is no exception.
We're facing the world's WORST FOOD CRISIS since WW2

We're facing the world's WORST FOOD CRISIS since WW2

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Supply chain crisis: 'Shocking' national baby formula shortage forces rationing at major retail chain



There is a national shortage of baby formula, which has forced a large retail chain to impose rationing on the important product for infants.

The supply chain crisis has prompted Walgreens – the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS – to limit the amount of baby formula that customers can purchase. A spokesperson for the national drugstore chain told CBS MoneyWatch that customers may only buy three infant and toddler formula products per transaction. Walgreens – which operates approximately 9,021 drugstores in all 50 states – said the reason for rationing is because of "increased demand and various supplier issues." The restrictions are already in effect at stores.

CVS is also experiencing baby formula shortages. A CVC Health spokesperson told CBS News that "product supply challenges are currently impacting most of the retail industry." The largest pharmacy store chain said it is working with "national brand baby formula vendors to address this issue and we regret any inconvenience that our customers may be experiencing."

As of the week of March 13, an analysis by Datasembly found that 29% of the top-selling baby formula products were out of stock at more than 11,000 stores. A steep increase from 11% in November.

Datasembly noted that 30% of baby formula was out of stock as of mid-March in 24 U.S. states. Shortages of at least 40% were reported in Connecticut, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, North and South Dakota, Rhode Island, and Texas. Parents in Minnesota are struggling to secure baby formula since stores are seeing 54% shortages, according to the retail analysis company that provides real-time product information from thousands of stores. In the first seven months of 2021, there were shortages of baby formula between 2% and 8%.

"This is a shocking number that you don't see for other categories," said Ben Reich – CEO of Datasembly. "We've been tracking it over time and it's going up dramatically. We see this category is being affected by economic conditions more dramatically than others."

A shortage of baby formula is concerning since 75% of babies receive at least some formula by the age of 6 months.

Memphis mom Samantha Modely told WREG-TV, "I would normally buy four to six cans at times to get us through the month and I would have to limit that to two. My friend is about to have a baby in August, and I can't imagine being worried about whether you’d be able to go to the local grocery store and grab what you needed it."

San Francisco mother Irene Anhoeck told CBS News, "We've noticed it being difficult to find maybe a couple months ago — two, three months ago — and then just recently we can't find it. We've tried all the local Targets. We checked Costco, Costco online, Walgreens, Long's. Can't find it anywhere."

Enfamil – a leading baby formula brand – said in January that they were dealing with an unprecedented 18% surge in demand for baby formula.

"We have taken steps to ramp up production and are currently shipping 50% more product, to address issues as fast as possible," a spokesperson for Reckitt – maker of Enfamil – said in January.

The Infant Nutrition Council of America assured parents that manufacturers are increasing production to counter the lack of product. The organization also urged parents not to hoard baby formula, and to only keep a supply for 10-to-14 days.

Biden Admin Prioritizes Climate Fantasies While Famine Threatens The World

President Joe Biden would seemingly rather virtue signal about climate change than act on the near-term implications of a potential global famine.

HUNGER GAMES: How to prepare for the ‘new world order’



The things Glenn has warned about are coming true. Elites at the “World Government Summit” asked if we were ready for a "new world order," and Biden recently told CEOs, “There’s going to be a new world order… and we’ve got to lead it.”

Fact-checkers seized on the story to make sure we all understood the president was just describing “international changes from the Russia-Ukraine conflict, not confirming a world domination conspiracy theory.” But Glenn Beck argues it can be both.

We need to know what to look for as things begin to spiral out of control AND how to prepare. Inflation continues to spike at record numbers, not only here at home, but in other economic powers like Germany. A recession is all but guaranteed to happen, and we’ve always found a way through it. But we’ve never been faced with what we’re now seeing. The labor market and supply chain are still rocked by the pandemic, while war rages in an area that supplies a vast amount of fossil fuels, precious metals, and food.

A recession can easily become a DEPRESSION. But the Biden administration is trying to propagandize us into accepting lower living standards. Officials want us to rely on them rather than on ourselves, but self-sufficiency is the way out of this. Our grandparents dealt with this during the Great Depression, and we must now learn from their example. Glenn shows Americans what every household must do before it is too late. Nobody will be laughing at preppers any more.

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