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Mary Peltola: “We saw this crab crashed halibut abundance is very low.”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

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Ocean Strategies Interview with Rep. Mary Peltola

Published | Video Starts at 35:40

We're seeing a real shortage of abundance on the Kenai the last ten years, almost every river system. And then We saw this crab crashed halibut abundance is very low. We're seeing kind of this cascading issue of these downward spirals of abundance and health. And it's not just abundance, it's that so many are coming back very small across the board. (35:40–35:46)

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Asserts that crab populations have crashed and halibut abundance is very low.

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