Alaskan king crab is not the cheapest option. Costco, for instance, has been known to sell wild-caught king crab legs for $43.99 per pound, but it's renowned for its sweet, buttery meat and ...

A king crab’s carapace, or shell, can be up to 10 inches wide, with legs growing up to 5 feet long. Because of their large size, they can weigh around 22 pounds.

Since 1956, the U.S. king-crab catch has grown from barely 9,000,000 lbs. to 150 million lbs.; it is expected to keep rising by 20% a year for the foreseeable future.

Last season’s golden king crab fishery was worth about $4.6 million at $12.80 a pound, which he said was “up a little bit from the past few years.” Registration for both commercial fisheries ...

Commercial landings last year of Alaska snow crab alone came to 44 million pounds and $219 million, according to NOAA data. The bad news didn’t end there.

Object Details Alternate Name Alaska King Crab Investigation Description In 1940, the Alaskan King Crab Expedition was commissioned by the Fish and Wildlife Service (Department of Interior) in order ...

Red king crab is a low-volume, high-value fishery. The crabs can bring in over $100 each. But the state’s red king crab stock estimations for the region have repeatedly fallen short of 200,000 ...

Object Details Abstract Color slides document the work of Waldo L. Schmitt during the Alaska King Crab Investigation (1940-1941). Slides are labeled with date, location, and brief description. Subject ...