“ they have about a year’s worth of reserves that will allow them to survive with the municipal services relatively intact, but, after that, it’s anybody’s guess how they’ll actually pay for really basic things.” “It was all snow crab all the time,” she said at the time. Paul, said in February that the city’s tax revenues went from about US $2.5-million two years ago to approximately $200,000 this year. Heather McCarty, of the Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Association, which manages community fisheries allocations for St. Paul, but the facility generates millions for the city through a “landing tax” imposed on commercial fishing boats, a tax on crab sales, and fees for fuel, supplies, and support services for the snow crab fleet. Most of Trident’s 400 or so workers are seasonal and come from outside St. Paul, whose economy relies almost entirely on snow crab, thanks to Trident, whose plant there is the largest crab processing facility in North America. No Bering Sea community was hit harder than St. In early October 2022, for the first time ever, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game canceled the Bering Sea season for snow crab (also known as opilio crab) after an annual survey revealed an almost total population collapse. “But it translates into the real-world cuts we’re experiencing now.” From “an environmental aesthetic point of view,” Zavadil admitted, the quiet was nice. Paul, a mostly Aleut community of just under 500, was silent. Paul’s city manager, Phil Zavadil, said in February from his office in city hall. “Those sounds are a reminder that money is coming in,” St. At the Trident Seafood crab processing plant, the diesel engines of commercial crab boats would be gurgling, and lifts would be running nonstop, transferring thousands of kilograms of snow crab into the plant. Paul, an island in the Bering Sea some 480 kilometers off the coast of Alaska, the community would be humming with activity. This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
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