MORE SEA ICE THAN IN 20-YEARS.

Another bogus Global Warming report.


Sea ice that is encroaching on the central Bering Sea is threatening to shut down the snow crab fishery at the peak of the season, according to the Bering Sea Fishermen's Association.
The fishery was expected to net 80 million pounds this year, but now crabbing boats are retrieving their pots or sitting in Dutch Harbor in a development that could have a devastating effect on crabbers trying to make a living off the fishery, the Anchorage Daily News (http://bit.ly/A6P0U2 ) reported Thursday.
The problem is that earlier-than-expected ice is moving south over prime crabbing boats. Karen Gillis, the association's executive director, said there has not been a natural event like this in 20 years.
"We're talking about household incomes that are being severely impacted, households that don't have a lot of other income sources," she said.

Karen Gillis, the association's executive director, says there has not been a natural event like this in 20 years.

Crabbing boats are out retrieving their pots or sitting in Dutch Harbor rather than delivering their catch to the now iced-in Trident Seafoods processing plant on St. Paul, said Edward Poulson, an adviser for the Bering Sea Crabbers Association and longtime crabber.
"Every day the boat sits in town waiting to see if the weather is going to turn you're burning money," Poulson said.
Some 8,000 pots are in the water right now — putting a total of more than $8 million worth of gear potentially in the ice's path, said Heather Fitch, an area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Dutch Harbor.
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Information from: Anchorage Daily News, http://www.adn.com

Note the the average global temperature is at the freezing point on the above 800-thousand year graph above. This winter has been 20 degrees colder  than average here in Alaska.


I am amused by this report because I fished king crab 25-years. I had to deal with cook Inlet ice sheets that can move in over the top your gear and cut the buoys off. I lost lots of $500 pots due to sea ice, 


I have pictures of my buoys in the ice off Augustine Island. It's a very slow process getting your gear back when you have to wait for them to pop up between ice burgs. Then you grapple them fast before they disappear again. Its very cold work standing out on deck in the wind in minus temperatures.

Global average temperatures are falling not rising and we could be going into another Ice Age. If so you won;t have to worry about the government proposed population reduction because there won't be enough food.