Kamchatka crab

Art studio “Siniy Dirizhabl” designed a new package for red king crab from “Severnyie Promysly” fishing company (Murmansk, Russia). Apparently this incredibly expensive crab is becoming more and more popular as Russian fishing quotas are growing thus making the crab cheaper. The story of red king crab in the Barents Sea is very interesting.

Red king crab is known in Russia under the name Kamchatka crab (камчасткий краб). It is the biggest and one of the most expensive in the world. While the population of red king crab in the area of the Kamchatka peninsula started to decline rapidly some 35 years ago Soviet biologists tried to find a new home for it – the Barents Sea/ At first it was just an experiment but surprisingly red king crab found the Barents Sea a new paradise. Finding no foes and good food sources red king crab started multiplying like mad eating almost everything around the nothern Kola peninsula and nothern Norwegian coast.

Wikipedia writes, “Environmentalists and some local fishermen fear the crab because it eats everything it comes across and is spreading very rapidly (despite this threat, some fishing quotas on the crab are still in place). Other fishermen see the king crab as a blessing, as it is a high priced delicacy in some countries”.