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then it kind of paused in 2019 and then of course covid came along in 2020 and the bering sea survey which helps measure the crab and the health of the stocks was not able to be completed so we really missed a very important survey year, just due to the complications of covid and then when the survey was able to come back in 2021 we saw the devastating disappearance of the crab. what caused that, we are not really sure. possibly a little bit due to warm waters, there are several theories going on, but there was a 90% decline that year and then an additional 30% decline this year warranting the complete closure of the fishery. >> two of the main theories appear to be what regulators are attributing to overfishing and scientists are attributing to climate change and global warming. what do you attribute it to? >> yeah, i think we are very, very well-managed fishery, our state managed federally regulated so i don't think the cause right side due to
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used in the finest sushi restaurants, bluefin is pretty special, and to catch it they use an equally special system of nets known as tonnare. >> here we have the nets, the big line we call coda. its 1 kilometer. >> really? >> yeah. >> the coda blocks the path of the migrating tuna. as they swim around it, they're funneled into a sequence of netted chambers with gaps wide enough for smaller fish to escape. the largest tuna enter a final chamber where fishermen work together in a finely tuned drill to lift them out of the sea. >> those are all the chambers. >> it's the chambers, yeah. >> there's no collateral damage or whatever? >> no. no. its sustainable. >> to avoid overfishing, the fishermen here never take more than 8% of the migrating tuna, ensuring the atlantic bluefin population remains a very healthy size.
>> yeah. let me see your tattoo. >> its carloforte island. >> oh, i see, yeah. >> and the tuna! >> well, that's good, i like that. >> it's not surprising tuna is something of a local obsession. for two months a year, fishermen come together to catch the coveted bluefin tuna as it migrates here from the east atlantic. used in the finest sushi restaurants, bluefin is pretty special, and to catch it they use an equally special system of nets known as tonnare. >> here we have the nets, the big line we call coda. its 1 kilometer. >> really? >> yeah. >> the coda blocks the path of the migrating tuna. as they swim around it, they're funneled into a sequence of netted chambers with gaps wide enough for smaller fish to escape. the largest tuna enter a final chamber where fishermen work together in a finely tuned drill to lift them out of the sea. >> those are all the chambers. >> it's the chambers, yeah. >> there's no collateral damage or whatever? >> no. no. its sustainable. >> to avoid overfishing, the
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but that's the least of the problems. i mean, the problem is, where did they go, what's causing this? and obviously, it's going to affect lots of people's families and livelihoods. >> maybe you lose 100, but 1 billion? how does that happen? >> how do you misplace 1 billion? >> i know we talk about overfishing, and i know this is a really big thing, because people love the product, and of course when the demand outpaces the supply, you've got all sorts of problems, but the idea that there's 1000 gone, diving, 1 billion on this is mind- boggling. and you're right. at first, you read the headline, and you think why is this news to people? but you're so right. there are industries built around this. these are livelihoods. these are people who are working in this field. and it's going to have a big impact. i mean, look at this now. the formula crisis, the ideas about this, you're seeing other shortages across the country. this is real in the economy, and this is yet another example. >> and they're not sure if it's because of climate change and global warming, because the bering sea has warmed so much in the past few years that it's affecting the stock, or if the fish management council has
isn't so laura bad news for crowd lovers because the annual harvest of snow and king crab in alaska has been canceled. state officials say the population for both of the crab species have disappeared. i personally love king crab, it's delicious but that's the least of the problem. the problem is where did they go? what's causing this and obviously it's going to affect lots of people's families and livelihoods. >> maybe lose 100 but a billion. i know we talk about overfishing and this is a really real thing because people love the product. and when the demand outpaces the supply you have a big problem. but a billion gone is just mind
babcock ranch is that solar power community reworted on. i got so much feedback on that story. this is 2,000 homes that never lost power and was built with flooding in mind. and so, engineered, preserving the wetlands around them as a hurricane sponge. and their schools were shelters after ian for the other kids in surrounding communities who are still under water. so, it is vital in so many ways, but yeah, you don't think about, when you're looking at that hurricane map for days, that the knockoff effects will be lost workdays for mom and dad, lost schooldays for the kids. now we have remote learning after covid, but that comes with a cost, psychologically, so it is one more reason to think about these things in a new way. >> and let's get your insights into the story out of alaska which, as you know, is a state that is just hit hard by extreme weather and climate change. the snow and king crab harvest is canceled because of overfishing. for our viewers who don't know, how does overfishing impact the climate crisis, and how does the
have a crisis and, unfortunately, this is a man—made crisis. however, it can be solved. we have a broken relationship with nature and we cannot foster economic development at the expense of the natural world. environmental destruction and climate change. things like deforestation and conversion of habitats, mangoes, wetlands, unsustainable hunting and poaching, overfishing of the oceans, logging, mining, unsustainable infrastructure. there are multiple causes of the way we produce and consume in our economic model that we need to change because we depend on nature you know? this is notjust depend on nature you know? this is not just for the depend on nature you know? this is notjust for the sake of the beauty of it, because it is beautiful, but everything we have, food, water, the clothes we wear, we depend on nature. it is important to understand