Too hot to handle: China's hairy crab farmers struggle after brutal summer

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Xie Dandan and her family have farmed hairy crabs, one of China' most sought-after culinary delicacies, in Yangcheng Lake for over a decade. The past three years have been their most difficult due to extreme weather.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Let's take a look at the flower.

00:05The flower is very good.

00:07It's very good.

00:09It's good.

00:10Let's go.

00:30Let's go.

00:50Let's see.

00:52It's still in the summer.

00:54It's still up to 40 degrees.

00:5640 度以上的高温

00:57但是它就是秋天的时候

00:58没有降温下来

01:00所以说这一段时间稍微有一点影响

01:02会导致大闸蟹它的

01:04生长周期变长

01:07成熟得比较晚一点

01:09比以前

01:10做农业的都是听天有命

01:12已经有了这种心态

01:14任何一个就是

01:16不管种庄稼也好

01:17还是去做其他的

01:18养殖业也好

01:20都是这样听天有命

01:22我们都是期望一年风调雨顺

01:24然后每一年

01:25我们苏州附近会有很多庙

01:28然后都会去

01:29这边养蟹的人

01:30然后还有附近的居民

01:32都是很就是在乎这方面的

01:34然后大家都可以

01:35都会去祈祷

01:36一年风调雨顺呀

01:38以后只能是说

01:39看大闸蟹它自己的一个

01:41怎么说呢

01:42它能不能适应了

01:43如果实在是不能适应了

01:45那以后可能这个行业

01:46都要淘汰掉了

01:47那没有办法的

01:49这个或者是以后

01:51有一些科技呀

01:53来解决这种事情

01:55比如说采取一些其他的措施

01:57什么之类的

01:58但是这个都是以后的事情

01:59现在是没有

02:01climate change

02:02not just about warming

02:05but also like

02:07irregular windfall pattern

02:09heavy windfall

02:10and even have a typhoon

02:13hurricane

02:13So it's a combination of extreme weather event.

02:18When we have this such kind of event, it will have catastrophic impact to the ecosystem.

02:27For instance, when you have heavy raining plus the warming,

02:31then the heavy raining will bring down all kinds of nutrients and pollutants through the surface one-off.

02:38That will lead to eutrophication and also hyperseic event in the lake,

02:44leading to massive mortality of those animals.

03:08To be continued...

03:15To be continued...

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