A: Do you like to eat snow crabs, also known as matsuba crabs in Taiwan?
B: I sure do, but the news says the number of snow crabs has fallen by nearly 10 billion in recent years!
A: What’s the problem?
Photo: AP 照片：美聯社
B: Water temperatures keep rising, and this is unfavorable to cold-water species like snow crabs.
A: People should really pay greater attention to climate change, or we may never enjoy snow crabs again.
A: 你喜歡吃雪蟹，也就是台灣俗稱的松葉蟹嗎？
B: 我喜歡啊，但新聞說近年來雪蟹已大減近百億隻！
A: 怎麼會這樣？
B: 因為海水溫度越來越高，對冷水物種的生存不利。
A: 人類真的該重視氣候變遷，不然就吃不到雪蟹了。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張聖恩）
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