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In 2025, Trawlers Suddenly Started Pulling Up Rare Hybrid Crabs in Record Numbers in The Bering Sea. Now We Know Why

A population of once-rare hybrid crabs has surged to record numbers, following a marine heatwave that hit the Bering Sea in 2018.

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A once‑rare hybrid crab population in the Bering Sea has surged to record numbers after a marine heatwave struck the region in 2018. Marine scientists, who had not accounted for this rise in their fishery management plans, have now identified the heatwave as the likely cause of the dramatic increase.

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