The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery is off to a slow start compared to last year, ... the catch was 40.6 million pounds for the little opies that weigh about 1.3 pounds per animal.

Fishermen too are doing a better job at pointing out unusual animals, Kent said. It's certainly not the first recent sighting of a blue red king crab. Or lavender, depending on the eye of the ...

The red color of the king crab comes from carotenoids, pigments also found in other marine animals like shrimp. They inhabit cold, deep waters and are bottom-dwellers, scavenging for food along ...

Every winter, over 2,000 tons of red king crab are pulled from the icy waters of Alaska, generating up to $43 million. In this video, we take you behind the scenes to discover the dangerous and ...

Bering Sea crab harvests as recently as 2016 grossed $280 million, according to the Seattle Times. A fleet of about 60 vessels from Alaska, Washington and Oregon typically pursue the crab, and ...

The red king crab fishery was closed; the snow crab fishery cut to a tenth of the previous year’s take. After another bad survey last year, the red king crab fishery closed again and the snow ...

Snow crabs are cold-water animals, explained Litzow, ... State rules stipulate there have to be at least 8.4 million mature females for the red king crab season to go forward.

So far Big Red, an upper keys crab, has only been bred with upper keys female crabs. In general Caribbean king crabs in the Florida Keys are significantly smaller than their cousins farther south.

Red King Crab, Alaska: These are the crabs that those big, yummy, orange legs come from. Between the ages of 2 and 4, the juvenile crabs gather in pods of thousands, relying on their numbers for ...

In addition, crabs' sense of smell is so similar to that of other aquatic animals that there are obvious broader implications. ... (e.g. the Alaskan red king crab or Bering sea snow crab) ...