Fisherman Garrett Kavanaugh’s Alaska Dungeness crabbing season is off to a good start. But nothing is certain in Alaska’s warming waters, where the nearby snow crab population vanished virtually overnight, forcing the shocking cancellation of the season in the Bering Sea last year.

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