• Nudding@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Seems like a pretty large domino, or am I wrong? Like how much biomass is that taken out of the food chain?

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      1 year ago

      One type of snow crab has adults reaching 1-4 lbs, or 0.45 to 1.81 kg, so the round numbers would perhaps be either 2 lbs or 1 kg. Sticking with metric for laziness that’s 5,999,800 tonnes of crab. It’s roughly about the same for imperial tons also.