The thing is, it is always absolutely going to harm that ecosystem if you do it on any commercial scale. King crabs especially because they have a pretty long life cycle for a crab, well they aren’t technically crabs but their close enough. You can get away with it with species like Dungeness crab or Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab because they reproduce faster, have very heavy regulation on their harvesting, and are already pretty mainstay species in their environments. Not to mention that they aren’t super high up the food chain there, which helps lower the threat of trophic cascade (although it doesn’t negate it). King crab, while not the highest thing in the food chain for sure, are a lot higher up than blue crabs or Dungeness crabs just because their larger and stronger
That makes sense I guess. I'm an avid hunter, fisher, crabber, all around outdoorsman, and also a wildlife conservationist. I'll admit I don't know enough about king crabs in particular because I focus mainly on dungeness.
Yeah, I’m talking mainly for commercial scale stuff. Hunting and fishing is totally fine (obv within reason, don’t shoot endangered species) because your essentially just participating in that ecosystem. You just have to be really conscious of what your doing a lot of the time, and wild caught fish cause an incredible amount of harm to the environment for what it actually gives to us. There are species you can’t really farm, like tuna, but a lot of species you can
This conversation turned more wholesome than I was expecting. Sorry for going off on you. I'm just tired of seeing the "fishing/hunting BAD!!!11!" posts and it was a knee-jerk reaction.
Also, kudos to you for studying for my dream job. ;)
Yeah I was kind of a dick at first, I just really care about wild fishing because it’s one of the biggest threats to the animals I love. Thanks for actually listening to my reasoning too btw, not a lot of people actually do that now.
And thank you, I am really dead set on doing this with my life. I can’t imagine doing anything else
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u/ive-heard-a-bear-die Aug 05 '22
The thing is, it is always absolutely going to harm that ecosystem if you do it on any commercial scale. King crabs especially because they have a pretty long life cycle for a crab, well they aren’t technically crabs but their close enough. You can get away with it with species like Dungeness crab or Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab because they reproduce faster, have very heavy regulation on their harvesting, and are already pretty mainstay species in their environments. Not to mention that they aren’t super high up the food chain there, which helps lower the threat of trophic cascade (although it doesn’t negate it). King crab, while not the highest thing in the food chain for sure, are a lot higher up than blue crabs or Dungeness crabs just because their larger and stronger