In the last decade, there was just one commercial red king crab fishery in Southeast Alaska. But that could change with a ...

The Tasmanian giant crab (Pseudocarcinus gigas ... Sometimes also called the red king crab, Alaskan king crabs are omnivorous scavengers, feeding on a variety of organisms including mollusks ...

Researchers recently found that the species should be split into six, maybe even seven, genetically distinct groups.

The red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) is an invasive species in the Barents Sea, introduced in the 1960s. Since then, it has established a significant population that supports both ...

This far less well publicised project was to relocate hoards of giant red king crabs (Paralithodes camtschaticus) from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the north Pacific to the Arctic Barents Sea off the ...

The most adorable, silly-looking baby king crab, accidentally collected by NOAA researchers in the Gulf of Mexico, has ...

However, the red king crab fishery collapsed in the 1980s. Since 1983, most populations have been depressed statewide and the Gulf of Alaska fishery remains closed.