Live King Crabs, all the way from Norway
The crabs today are coming from the Barents Sea, which is north of the Norway-Russian border. Didn’t know those two countries touched? Neither did I. The region is called ‘Finmark,’ and it’s north of actual Finland, but is part of Norway.
The Russians introduced King Crab into this body of water in the 1960s (Murmansk Fiord, if you want to get really precise, just to the east of Finmark in Russia), and it first appeared in Norway in 1977. The Russian and Norwegian governments currently share management of the fishery.
In that ecosystem, it is an invasive (ie non-native) species, eating pretty everything else up there. A portion of the Norwegian Barents Sea king crab fishery (west of 26○ E) is “managed” as an elimination fishery (i.e., no management – kill ‘em all). World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Norway agrees with this approach, as the crab shouldn’t be there. So morally, it’s a good crab to eat.
Red King Crab are considered the finest of the King crabs that we see (the other being the “Golden,” aka “Brown” crab).
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