Barents Sea models show potential of 25,000 to 75,000 tons of snow crab harvest within 10 years
date:Mar 21, 2014
ome as large as 7L, and that the extent of the resource is not well known.

Snow crab does well on a muddy bottom, while king crab prefers a hard bottom. There is a huge expanse of suitable bottom for snow crab in the Barents Sea, and if survey projections are born out, this could become a much bigger resource.

Writing in the Barents Observer, Dr. Carsten Hvingel, Head of the Research Group Benthic Resources and Processes at the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, said that model simulati

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