Alaska’s snow crabs suddenly vanished. Will history repeat itself as waters warm?
Alaska’s snow crabs suddenly vanished. Will history repeat itself as waters warm?
ABOARD THE FISHING VESSEL INSATIABLE – Garrett Kavanaugh grabs a fistful of freshly cooked crab and stuffs it into his mouth, a giant smile on his face, as his feet brace against the rolling sea beneath the deck of his boat.
“Oh yeah,” he says. “That’s what it’s all about.”
As the deck of his 58-foot-long boat rolls on the swells of the Gulf of Alaska, Kavanaugh, 24, cracks another crab leg between his tattooed fingers.
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