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Charybdis hellerii, the Indo-Pacific swimming crab or spiny hands is a species of crab from the swimming crab family, the Portunidae. Its native range covers the Indian and Pacific Oceans but it has been introduced to the western Atlantic and has invaded the Mediterranean. It is a commercially exploited species in south-east Asia.
Deadliest Catch is an American reality television series that premiered on the Discovery Channel on April 12, 2005. The show follows crab fishermen aboard fishing vessels in the Bering Sea during the Alaskan king crab and snow crab fishing seasons.
FV Big Valley was a 92-foot (28 m) crab fishing vessel. The vessel capsized and sank on January 15, 2005, in the Bering Sea in an area 70 miles (110 km) west of Saint Paul Island, Alaska . Only one member of the crew survived of the six people on board.
Cancer pagurus, the edible crab or brown crab, is a species found in the North Sea, North Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a robust crab of a reddish-brown colour, having an oval carapace with a characteristic "pie crust" edge and black tips to the claws. [11] Mature adults may have a carapace width of up to about 25 cm and weigh up to ...
F/V Pacesetter was a 127-foot (38.7 m), steel-hulled, Bering Sea crab-fishing boat launched in 1976 as Priscilla Ann.In 1979, she was renamed Coastal Glacier.The vessel eventually was acquired by Matt Pope and Dale Lindsay and renamed Pacesetter.
Captain Sig Hansen has the Northwestern on the crab, getting an average of 500–600 crab per pot, and wants to move west .75 miles (1.21 km) before resetting the pots to keep the fishing fresh and ahead of the crab, but the crew questions Captain Sig's decision not to set back on the same spot like previous seasons.
Much of this foreign crab is reportedly caught and imported illegally and has led to a steady decline in the price of crab from $3.55 per pound in 2003 to $3.21 in 2004, $2.74 in 2005 and $2.30 in 2007 for Aleutian golden king crab, and $5.15 per pound in 2003 to $4.70 in 2004 to $4.52 in 2005 and $4.24 in 2007 for Bristol Bay red king crab.
The purple shore crab (Hemigrapsus nudus or the naked shore crab [1]) is a common crab of the family Varunidae that is indigenous to the west coast of United States, Canada, and Mexico. H. nudus was first described in 1847 by Adam White , and in 1851, James Dwight Dana formally classified the species.