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)