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Russians say Barents Sea king crab population hit record in 2017
| has also grown. Due to this, total catch of both species in the Barents Sea may reach 18,000 metric tons this year.
The population of the Kamchatka crab previously peaked in 2004, according Konstantin Sokolov, head of the Coastal Research Laboratory of the Polar Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO).
He also added that since 2004 the population has started to decline. However, it has grown in the last two years.
| In the meantime, the rising Russian crab biomass has already led producers there to start a new wave of pressure on the country's government to lift the existing ban on crab catch in the 12-mile coastal zone.
Producers have already said they will provide additional guarantees on the release of all the juvenile and females during their fishing, as required by Russian legislation. They also pointed to the need to use the experience of neighboring Norway,
| which does not have any bans on the crab catch within its nearshore coastal area.
n the meantime, the attempts of producers to lift the ban have generally been rejected by the Russian government on the basis of recommendations of PINRO scientists and other research institutions, who disagree with producers on crab mortality.
They claim that more than 90% of the nearshore traps have excessive bycatch of small and female crabs.
| They believe lifting the ban will result in a significant decline of Russia's crab biomass.
Russia's Rosrybolovstvo also believes in order to abolish the moratorium on the coastal fishing of the Kamchatka crab, additional results of juveniles and female bycatch observations in territorial waters are needed.
A spokesman of Rosrybolovstvo said it is necessary to determine those fishing areas and zones, where the total bycatch will be less than 25%,
| and confirm this by regular observations.
Panelists at the recent Global Seafood Market Conference predicted that more Russian supply will hit the market in 2018 – the country’s red king crab quota, split between the Barents Sea and Far East fisheries, is expected to reach around 26,000t in 2018, compared to over 21,000t in 2017.
https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/31/russians-say-barents-sea-king-crab-population-hit-record-in-2017/
| What the fuck, that's kinda back asswards.
| I see a connection between this and the homephobe russian conspiracy theories:
Crab people, crab people! Talk like human, taste like crab.
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| The population of Kamchatka crab in the Barents Sea reached a historical record in 2017 said Russia's fishing agency, Rybolovstvo.
This may result in an increase of the total allowable catch by the Russian government in 2018 and the abolishment of the existing ban on coastal crab production in Russia, which has long been lobbied for by some leading local crab producers.
In addition to Kamchatka crab, the population of opilio crab, according to the agency's scientists,