Snow Crabs: An Oncoming Storm?
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This snow crab specimen was found in 2011, caught at 78.07 N latitude and 27.05 E longitude, in an area called Olgastredet about 75 km from Edgeøya in eastern Svalbard. (Photo: Jan H. Sundet, Institute of Marine Research) -
Snow crabs are a profitable fishery elsewhere in the world, and Russia is conducting an exploratory fishery in snow crabs in the Barents Sea 2013. (Photo: Dmitry V. Prozorkevich, Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography) -
Map showing the snow crab population in the Barents Sea, steadily moving westward from the Russian to the Norwegian zone and heading toward Svalbard. (Image: Courtesy of PINRO) -
Jan Sundet, senior scientist and crab specialist at the Institute of Marine Research in Tromso. (Photo: Christi Turner) -
This snow crab specimen was found in 2011, caught at 7807 N latitude and 2705 E longitude, in an area called Olgastredet about 75 km from Edgeøya in eastern Svalbard. (Photo: Jan H. Sundet, Institute of Marine Research)
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