Unless their food supply can bounce back.
Reduced predation by the crabs should help some but if it is too warm for the critters the crab eat there won't be many snow crabs at all.
Perhaps some of the fish they eat headed north.

So little we don't know about the marine environment and how it functions.

They're cold-blooded, so warmer water means they need to eat more food than they typically would.

It doesn't sound like there's much hope long-term that they'll recover, at least in their current range.

Global warming is real. Wild sturgeon, salmon, and trout populations in the west are
declining too.

The fisherman have been dealing with the shutdowns over the last two seasons. I wonder if there will be another season of this show.

It's a transgender woke conspiracy of lesbian librarians funded by Soros, masterminded by Al Gore and led by Ru Paul to heat the water of the Bering Sea using orbiting space lasers, so that they can deprive me of my God-given right as a 'Murcan to eat all the crab legs I want for $7.99 at the Country Crock Buffet on Saturday nights.

To afford real crab legs for 20 years. No doubt the species was on the ropes for a long time. As long as those faux crab legs are still available, we can do our part to protect the real thing.

snow crab was on sale at Safeway for $6/lb last week. King crab is going well over $100 if it can even be found. I suspect mostly old frozen stock as AK shut fishery down 2 years ago (as mentioned in the story)

Totally different animals!