Yes, please, I want all of those pins. 
Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time in history after discovering a 90% drop in population
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I just sent this to our daughter and said I feel some t-shirts are about to be made.
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My daughter has a t-shirt that rattles a bunch of those off from top to bottom. Except the last one is just “Listen to scientists.”
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Hoping to find some internet friendly summaries of the annual trawl sampling. No such luck. Where is the powerpoint when you need one?
Pretty much the only thing I could find re this closure:
And perhaps relevant - an overview:
My take is that snow crab was in trouble since the early 80’s. That said the methodology seems to have changed at least twice. Too complicated for me to understand completely.
Just gotta point out that the closure is generally a regulatory response to practical science data. If ADFG is anything like Canada’s DFO, then lots of non-science stuff gets added into regulatory decisions.
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