Alaska Snow Crab Season 2024. 2024 alaska king crab season dael mickie, while the collective gross operating profit of atlantic city’s nine casinos fell 9.6% in the first three months of 2024 to $140.4 million. The alaska department of fish and game canceled the snow crab season earlier this week after a catastrophic population crash of the sizable crustaceans.

The snow crab crisis in alaska first began in early 2022, after biologists discovered an estimated 10 billion crabs disappeared — a 90% plunge in the population. From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern bering sea off the coast of alaska, with the population plummeting to record.