King Crabs Menacing Biodiversity, Fjords of Norway | SLICE

[@Hash2009]

Oh jeez, what do we do with all these delicious predators?

[@olivercarter2528]

We've got to fight back. Fight back by eating as many as we can.

[@trifocit_co]

Cook them

[@laughthis138]

Another reality tv show about crabbing

[@wwpark]

Chinese can sort that out in a week.

[@sodonewithit.literally]

@@wwpark 3 Days, and that whole ecosystem is fucked

[@davidotness6199]

I fished king crab on the Bering Sea for many years, beginning in 1973. A lot of Norwegians came over to take part in the fishery's heyday. I know many in Norway who would love to do their part in "resolving" the problem. Especially as they were a part of wiping them out nearly to extinction on the Bering Sea back in the early 1980s. It could be done if the Norwegian government was actually serious about it.

[@jakebyrne2416]

Were they nearly wiped out or did they simply migrate to other waters to protect them selfs? Ive thought about this alot we don't know much about the habits of sea life or there intelligence

[@davidotness6199]

@@jakebyrne2416 --- They didn't go anywhere but onto dinner plates. They were fished hard for a decade and ultimately had their base knocked down. As it turns out, a decadal oscillation in water temps occurred along with attendant species shifts which made for better conditions for cod and other predators which eat mostly young and juvenile crab when available. The base crab population never recovered in all of this time.

[@hia5235]

A very valueable pest indeed. Tasty too.

[@hia5235]

@@harryviking6347 I do find it quite funny that people are complaining about an infestation of King Crab and Salmon: both are great eating. The rest of the world wishes its invasive species were that valueable or delicious.

[@maximedaunis8292]

Sounds like war

[@MAHGlie]

0:54 The biologists are taking it to their laboratory where they have plenty of butter.

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

And lemon

[@gabrielglass2224]

Very funny

[@88_TROUBLE_88]

Even funnier is: 3:50 This dude actually just said crabs eat "sea enema's" lmfao 😂

[@quartusbuys6831]

@@88_TROUBLE_88 And garlic.

[@PhongNguyen-nz9kz]

That’s funny

[@DJFlare84]

I am just sitting here thinking about how mad I am that no matter how overpopulated King Crabs get anywhere, the grocery store is not going to lower the price for them.

[@korvolga]

crazy, expensive af here!

[@BouncingTribbles]

They are restricted from fishing them in Norway too. So the fisherman are literally not allowed to deal with the problem

[@dixee6498]

True

[@indyrock8148]

Norway: We have a delicious high priced invasive crab destroying our seas ecosystem. Let's restrict fishing and spend years studying it.

[@boxhawk5070]

Even worse, they have an agreement with Russia protecting the species from fishing in the Barents sea.

[@orlandohoyaranda4600]

do what the asians do... setting up crabs processing factories...

[@indyrock8148]

@@orlandohoyaranda4600 China: hold my beer

[@MoiAussie1]

The researcher certainly filled me with the confidence of a “quick” conclusion. 😣.

[@LonersGuide]

It will pay off in the future. Starfish and sea urchins are not good eating for people.

[@bizzybee852]

No one in this documentary mentioned how the king crab got into the fjords of Norway. I assume they are not native to the area, or they would not be causing such devastation. I also did not appreciate how SLICE just gave us a slice of this documentary and then left us hanging as to what the scientists discovered when they abruptly ended it. Not to mention, they failed to answer the most basic questions about where the king crab came from, how they got there, that the government restricts the harvesting of king crabs, (I learned that by reading the comments), or what the govt plans to do about the problem, etc.,. All in all, this "slice" of a documentary, sort of sucked.

[@formulah113]

the Russians introduced them to their waters from the north pacific. they were trying to start their own fishing grounds.

[@leftifornian2066]

@@formulah113 those pesky russians

[@a64738]

Yes they was places in the area and do not naturally belong here...

[@scipioafricanus4328]

Yes, that dope smoking communist ‘vlad the inhaler’ introduced them, to distract Norway on biodiversity problems instead of the existential threat of Russian expansion

[@truedox]

Well, Slice is fitting name for partial documentaries.

[@variableknife4702]

I'm not trying to trivialize this - but seriously if you have an extra king crab problem, it's not rocket-science to fix it. As others have said boiling saltwater and, later some butter and the odd lemon wedge will help.

[@vondahe]

Don't forget dill - but the real kicker is making your own Thousand Island dressing. These beasts are extreemly yummy. In Switzerland, a grown up king crab easily sell at 200 CHF which is 209 USD at the current mid-rate.

[@donaldmiller1207]

Don't forget the 'Old Bay'. Can replace the chicken shortage...

[@LaVidaEnUnaGota]

They don't nothing todo, if you go to the fish market, you will pay them a lot.

[@starlight-tour777]

No Crackhead Mike Anthony Foster LEE's from Rockford, Illinois allowed 🤡

[@kur4325]

Russia won't allow us to fix the problem they created without also giving them the rights to overfish our seas in exchange

[@goodtoGoNow1956]

Somehow this does not seem like a problem to me. I have a feeling that there are a people out there who can easily decimate a crab population in one or two seasons

[@bullfrogger1208]

There's finally a reason to visit Norway and they are trying to get rid of it.

[@nobodysbaby5048]

...with butter!🤗

[@grangebateliere]

I'm in.

[@summercrane5289]

Guys I'll take on the responsibility of eating these crabs to save the world

[@DannyRobshaw]

I just bought the 5 gallon "Tub O' Butter" from Costco. Waiting for my Viking Crab to get on their Viking ship to float down the butter river into Valhalla in my tummy.

[@ginolorenzo4117]

Y'all act like it's a problem while everyone here knows what to do with those crabs

[@josephwilliams6711]

ILL BRING THE GARLIC BUTTER

[@SolsticioHardcore]

get a net, a stove, a pot and get a bag of lemmons and fix the problem

[@helpIthinkmylegsaregone]

there is a solution for the crab problem and mankind has known it for centuries

[@guppy719]

I mean it definitely is a problem it just also one of the most profitable animals to harvest.

[@chasehicks7465]

Lol yep

[@TheOnlyHatchet101]

In my study of the king crab, they should be less expensive at the local market, which might help alleviate your issues.

[@paulybeefs8588]

My refrigerator has a biodiversity problem too, it's basically stuffed top to bottom with butter, ready to melt. If someone can figure out any sort of way to solve both issues, I'd really love to hear some ideas!

[@Freekymoho]

I've an idea thats so crazy it might just work

[@glenntremblay5406]

LMAO....I got some butter candles!! All that's needed now is a wedge of lemon...

[@TheJHMAN1]

You would think expanding the Crab season would take care of this problem.

[@TheWolfsnack]

Hey....I have a similar problem...too much garlic....

[@TimothySlickback]

Crab boil anyone?

[@benjaminchristiansen9852]

I love how all it takes to make something seem "menacing" or "terrifying" is a deep voiced narrated documentary and a couple of loose facts haha... this is just like a shark week documentary

[@alexanderbrown4250]

Or a political ad about Hugo Chavez, socialism, Venezuela, and the southern border of the USA.

[@keithadams812]

Remember when leonard nimoy told us about the coming ice age in the seventies it was scary...

[@kongthemayor5481]

Norwegian authorities sees them as a danger of course but yet heavily restrict fishing of king crabs. How the hell are we gonna get rid of them if we're not even allowed to consume them

[@kommisar.]

Maybe that's why they are almost $30/lb. and almost exclusively from Alaska. Good question.

[@lhaviland8602]

Buy why?

[@bluefacebaby9334]

@@lhaviland8602 Vietnam rat problem, incentivizing catching these crabs has a greater chance of increasing their population than decreasing

[@andrewrodriguez647]

That's so stupid they restrict the fishing of king crab in Norway there should be traps every single mile people should be eating them for cheap over there

[@guppy719]

@@bluefacebaby9334 It might increase the range of the crabs if people seed them (IDK if there is a way to really slow or even stop that) but it will in no shape increase the population it will be the opposite its not like people can easily raise king crabs or they would already be doing it.

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

I hear no one talking about how they might increase the biodiversity. It looks like the biodiversity is already low in the region. Probably from loss of keystone species either from humans or other reasons. These crabs are like the wolves re-introduced into Yellowstone park. They are like a apex predator. Keeping the urchin population low will allow dense kelp forests to come back which will in turn provide enormous safe havens and hiding for a wealth of species which the crabs likely won't be able to hunt very well.

[@mrdude88]

Obviously from other reasons. Humans are trying to do what we can to help them.

[@Will80085]

@@mrdude88 🤣

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

@indiapale someone is ignorant of the yellowstone wolf project

[@bingrasm]

The guy who discovers what to do with those crabs must be given the Nobel prize...

[@mrdude88]

Everyone who’s at the drawing board when he figure out the solution, “That idea is so crazy, it might just work!”

[@vondahe]

Have the Nobel Committee PM me. They're extremely tasty so allow unrestricted fishing of this invasive species. You're welcome.

[@HexaDecimus]

Easy, let's just take Norway and push it somewhere else.

[@TS-mo6pn]

Or at least a free dinner at Red Lobster.

[@bdanielcal4608]

After Obama got the nobal prize it is pointless

[@JacqualynTin]

"Their claws are long and agile"...and meaty delicious. Looks delicious! I know I'm not the only one salivating.

[@krausersama9153]

Were overfishing the oceans while an army of delicious crabs are wrecking the ecosystem.. why arent these in every supermarket right now!!

[@samscreed]

King crabs invade Norway: we must study and learn about this invasive species to come up with an effective strategy to fight back and restore biodiversity to our waters King crabs invade America: hippity hoppity your legs are my property

[@Voss2120]

Wait this species is invasive and over populated? SEND THEM TO ME!

[@kaynef6637]

There is a huge market for them , listen to these little baby’s cry .

[@a64738]

Sadly we are not allowed to fish more then a few of them and only a selected few fishermen is allowed to catch them... But some of my friends have free dived and hunted them for cooking ourselves, they can be found at 1m depth and deeper and is easy to catch.

[@clonefan9472]

Not sure how this popped up for me today, but my first thought was how menacing it would be for those crabs if we already had a thriving industry that knew how to overfish them.

[@kananeesh7900]

The day after the release of this information Norway sees a fleet of Chinese fishing vessels along the coast, claiming the Chinese owned these waters in ancient times.

[@ibec69]

They’re already building islands with reclaimed land in the Northern Sea.

[@johncopenhaver4477]

Lol Xinny the Poo is going to kill us all either on purpose or through sheer disregard of our lives during his conquest. Wait why do I think this is funny

[@MrKezzerdrix]

@@johncopenhaver4477 Fear laughter.

[@rickgotner7596]

I live Alaska, where commercial fishermen keep the populations well under control, often too under control. Last year the commercial fishery was closed completely numbers were so low. There's also considerable commercial value to these crabs if harvested. Oh, and they are very delicious.

[@skippybrand]

At 30 to 55 dollars per pound, Norway ought to apply a capitalistic approach to the problem.

[@sapperssgkelley]

That puts money in the hands of entrepreneurs, not government funded/employed researchers, so that won't work.

[@skippybrand]

@@sapperssgkelley But I love crab! An increase in the supply would mean I might be able to afford a crab dinner, but I don't think it would offset the cost of flying from America to Norway. There might be an export market though. :) But seriously, there are places in the world where crab fishing has to be regulated to preserve their numbers. If you were to promote the crab fishery in the Fjords it could take care of the problem and you could use your funding for other studies.

[@sidneyvandykeii3169]

@@sapperssgkelley Its called Taxation. The Govt always get its money.

[@skippybrand]

I guess this a case where Socialism is promoting a ecological problem the Capitalism could solve.

[@charlescurran1289]

Fortunately, there exists an even more formidable predator which comes armed with butter.

[@shonshonshon8658]

If it wasn't for the images of a vibrant red colored shell and pearl white meat soaked in warm golden butter than these things would look terrifying! Thank you food.

[@Mrbfgray]

They are like massive ugly hairy spiders.

[@F15ElectricEagle]

I have several large volume boiling vats and an industrial-size high capacity freezer next to the kitchen in my home. With that said, I will gladly volunteer with helping to reduce this biodiversity problem.

[@grittykitty8005]

There's only one solution to this problem : We must eat them !

[@CMZneu]

6:04 They have soft flesh? dude have you ever touched a starfish! they not at all soft, btw everything is easy to catch in there.

[@passionburn16]

Sell it cheaper than 50$ and I bet you extinction

[@kurtispalmer8168]

From what my grandmother has told me the size of kings has decreased by an amount i almost cant describe.. she was a canner and told me the average king leg was about the thickness of a full grown persons arm.

[@josephpk4878]

Seems to me that they'd benefit from harvesting the hell out of them. King Crab tastes great and is way too expensive to be just crawling around eating stuff.

[@ClubXXXPoison]

They do. It’s a thriving fishing industry. Like gold from the sea floor.

[@MoiAussie1]

As opposed to crown of thorns starfish that’s apparently decimating the Great Barrier Reef. Wonder if there’s a marketthere in another country?

[@sudkhetlehmann857]

Its a great video. My opinion is that they are looking at only 1 side of the whole story. The question should be, how come there are so many Kingcrabs in the first place. Always get to the root cause of the problem and not trying to solve the symptoms. Good luck.

[@rogerharvey1698]

My question is, who’s the Inuit or primitive Norseman who first pulled one of these creatures out of 600feet of below freezing water, and said “hey, I don’t know what this thing is, but let’s eat it.”

[@bender0428]

They’re not native to “Norseman” they’re from the Bering sea/near Alaska lmao. That’s the whole point of the video, but the real question is why they act like this is some sort of problem when they basically just got delivered one of the most sought after delicacies to their doorstep.

[@Freekymoho]

@@bender0428 the damage they can do before theyre eaten

[@Khajitxi]

@@Freekymoho there’s also the problem of how nowadays we’re really bad at eating stuff to extinction on purpose. We’d immediately get some assholes farming/breeding them instead.

[@Beezlie727]

@@Khajitxi How can they be in danger of being fished/eaten to extinction in the region & be INVASIVE at the same time!? Kind of an oxymoron, dontcha think? If they're invasive, being 100% rid of them should be the goal, right?

[@Khajitxi]

@@Beezlie727 you missed the point that people profiting off of selling said crabs (financially or otherwise) wouldn’t want them to go extinct because they’d no longer have the benefits of being able to harvest them. A large scale attempt to incentivize killing the crabs paradoxically incentivizes the exact opposite result in the long term. Eg British colonials paying bounties on rats eventually found massive rat farms made by the natives and had to scrap the program after it ended up making the rat population explode more,

[@barlow5891]

Why the fuck is king crab so expensive when there’s loads of them?

[@boarbot7829]

If they’re such a problem why aren’t they cheaper?

[@randmayfield5695]

Chinese and Japanese markets keep the supp,y down causing higher cost here in the US. Most of the king crab comes from Russian waters. Now that there's an embargo on Russian seafood, the fish and shellfish are being sent to China for processing, then it's being redistributed throughout the world.

[@BillHalliwell]

G'day, because so many 'silly' countries that have a serious King Crab infestation also don't allow King Crab fishing... go figure. These delicious creatures are artificially inflated in price. I happen to know that large organisations can afford to serve up King Crabs whenever they want, like... The US Navy! As I said above, Helt latterlig!!

[@davidcasner8873]

At above 15$ a pound Norway are fools for not to opening the fishery. Let the US fleet do it.

[@jackroth5110]

People who can'\t figure out how to decreasze the numbers of delicious animals haven't thought out their problem very well.

[@wtang1121]

the solution to this biodiversity problem is hardly rocket science

[@percussion44]

Yawn, government horsepoo again. If they were truly concerned, give king crab license to whomever wants one. No season, no catch limit, subsidize price in restaurants so even the poor can feast on them. Gone in 2 years or so I wager.

[@kylegoodman5196]

They can't not because they don't want to but because the Barents Sea is governed by a treaty between Norway and Russia.

[@Deeznutz002]

@@kylegoodman5196 What does Iceland say?

[@billhosko7723]

@@kylegoodman5196 READ: "In the Porsanger Fjord (Norway)" in this propaganda piece.

[@percussion44]

@@billhosko7723 And here we are 3 years later and King Crab is the most valuable fishery in Norway. With govt catch limits blah blah blah. Who could have predicted? Oh wait...

[@fordtimelord8673]

Send this video to the Costco seafood buyer.

[@kevsh4997]

Given that they are dangerous if left to grow in population, it should be sold lower than their current price😂😂. 1 king crab is more than 100 USD depends on it's size but it's big enough to weigh more than 2 kilos. It is so expensive.

[@sirnoname6943]

But their dangerous to catch the lower the price the higher demand till its nothing but demand

[@kylegoodman5196]

That's because in the US the crab is a native species and we overfished the crab in the Bering Sea. Norway has a problem because Russia dumped a whole bunch in the Barents Sea.

[@BigZoe99]

@@kylegoodman5196 why would Russia do.that and not sell them lol?

[@kylegoodman5196]

@@BigZoe99 Because they don't have the industrial capacity .

[@kommisar.]

Last time I checked Costco's sold them at around $28/lb.

[@iamthemoss]

"the scientists are taking this adult crab to the lab to study its predatory habits" and to see how well it goes with melted butter.

[@christopherbrandt1895]

If they are that invasive in Norway why aren’t they catching them and shipping them to the U.S. and make the prices drop so they aren’t so expensive

[@kur4325]

because Russia refuses to let us clean up after them

[@7ElevenTruther]

@@kur4325 Well times have changed. Now russia that has shit the bed and ensured that the baltic will soon be a NATO lake, maybe Norway should be thinking about exploiting them untapped resources. The world's fish markets could always use more king crab.

[@rickiex]

in america, just give us one thanksgiving, and we'll "take care" of those pesky king crabs lol

[@Sometimes_Always]

Those things are delicious.. Just let us "Americans in.. It'll be bacon wrapped crab.. crab double burgers.. crab burritos, deep fried crab... Endangered list guaranteed

[@percussion44]

Agreed, non issue, eat the f in things. Better yet hand the chinese fishing fleet a blank cheque. Your waters will be sterile in a week.

[@ShellymanStudios]

LMAOOO!

[@yourdadsotherfamily3530]

*Florida man seen squaring up’ with a hoard of king crab*

[@vincentsaysno1510]

fried crab meat is great!

[@alimohammed4709]

Ahahaha

[@oracleofottawa]

At $30.00 a pound they cant be that common.....

[@Sharkdog11b]

This is why people against hunting and fishing need to understand why ethical means of harvest isn’t just in our human nature but an absolute necessity. It is up to us to keep the ecosystem in check.

[@None-zc5vg]

It used to keep itself in check at one time.

[@floydzoglman703]

Where are the crab boats. Don't tell me that the government has outlawed crabbing.

[@loganrobson8624]

FINALLY, A VIDEO ABOUT A KING CRAB THAT ISN’T ABOUT EATING IT!!!

[@AdjutantGOAT]

Yeah!

[@FeniXMinerva]

I still want to eat ‘em.

[@wwpark]

Best served on a plate.

[@robbieevans6536]

It seems we need to eat them.

[@regn7786]

A problem made worse by not eating enough of them

[@robote7679]

Amazing to see these creatures in "their" habitat exhibiting their ferocity so close up. Thanks for this most interesting video.

[@nahor88]

Yeah I get that... but it's pretty dumb that there isn't a culinary angle to the video. Crab is one of the most sought after seafoods in the world, and here these scientists are wasting their time bitching about how they're destroying the ecosystem. Get those fuckers out of your stupid ass labs idiots and into a KITCHEN.

[@paulkelly4731]

Have you seen the price of king crabs in the store? oh brother, we get zebra muscles and adian carp.... you get king crabs. Life's not fair!

[@asianseaanimals]

The footage is very clear, what kind of camera use

[@e11ttchgameplays55]

the part where the younger crab catches a jellyfish reminds me of that spongebob episode jellyfish hunter

[@justsomeguy7436]

Oh jeez. What do we do with all these delicious predictions? 😋

[@craigb2279]

confused on this, are they not edible? Anywhere humans and edible crabs are near each other I would think overhunting would be the issue not overpopulation of crabs.

[@a64738]

They are edible and actually they taste extremely good, they give you a high price if you sell them but only a selected few is allowed to fish them and only in limited amounts...

[@Mrbfgray]

@@a64738 WHY?

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

"What did you discover after studying the crabs in the laboratory?" "That we need to collect more and we did not have enough butter."

[@a.l.michael6240]

Can you imagine how terrifying these things would be if they were terrestrial and 20x bigger

[@None-zc5vg]

Who needs giant sci-fi crabs when we've got the Russians rampaging around ?

[@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep]

@@None-zc5vg Do you even know the brutality the Ukrainians were doing prior to Russia invading? Just look up mainstream news prior to the invasion.

[@HandsOfSweed]

Starship Troopers

[@imanartistwhogaveupatdrawi3827]

That can solve the world hunger honestly

[@100GTAGUY]

I'll pass on giant land crabs thank you, the coconut crab is already sketchy enough.

[@MortgageEasy]

Why in heck are they not catching them for food? Especially now that Alaska’s crab season has been cancelled.

[@ibec69]

Somebody eventually needs to tell these guys that those crabs in fact taste very good and people spend a lot of money to eat them.

[@a64738]

We KNOW they taste extremely good but only a selected few is allowed to catch them and only in limited amounts... Normally you hunt invasive species to extinction but in here in the moronic country called Norway they protect it...

[@ibec69]

@@a64738 it makes no sense to protect invasive species wreaking havoc on the ecosystem. Steamed king crab should be the Norwegian national dish.

[@ThatZenoGuy]

@@ibec69 >it makes no sense to protect invasive species It makes perfect sense, can you think on why they would protect such a species?

[@henrydrummond2257]

They are naive socialists, they probably think it has feelings 😂

[@perryoberlander1069]

Let crab fishermen drop crab pots (traps) everywhere they can in the area. Red King Crab meat is one of the worlds top seafood delicacies and sells for a fortune. Anywhere else, the fishing of these crabs have to be limited to prevent overfishing and extinction. Just eat them!

[@teng029]

1:07 I disagree. The next step is to steam and then dip in lemon butter..

[@koushiroutokugawa2368]

People: Oh! King Crab is so dangerous to the environment what do we do now?? Me: it's very fukin simple more crab means more food and i love food

[@Belleherbe]

SIMPLE 😂😂😂😂😂

[@floydblack7115]

Sell them nationwide on a low price scale they get so expensive on restaurants why people dont consume them more often open your eyes

[@abrahamkim1078]

…and yet they’re still one of the most expensive sea specimen there is. Market price vs possible takeover of this apex sea bottom predator is the issue.

[@AliGoode]

I thought we were eating enough of them to control things. Great news! We need to eat more king crab, y'all!

[@tile_guy]

As someone with pretty bad arachnophobia, I hate crabs to, thanks for the nightmares

[@tile_guy]

@Devamps I never thought I was afraid of crabs lmao

[@kommisar.]

@@tile_guy Gordon Ramsay's video where he catches one and eats it may help your phobia.

[@tile_guy]

@@kommisar. nice try buddy ive seen it before

[@chrish2685]

Next step is to fish for them,sell them to restaurants and eat them. Payback for ruining the Ecosystem!

[@santoryuu6807]

Imagine getting reincarnated as a crab and seeing a heavily equipped skuba diver heading towards you

[@cradiculous]

Imagine getting reincarnated as a starfish and getting grabbed by a giant land monster that chucks you into a tank full of king crabs

[@j-sant-animations8105]

@@scoobertdooperson2695 they’re here to play the jaws theme for your death

[@Levi-em6ym]

Are they kidding. King crab is a million dollar industry most countries would love to have.

[@Blakearmin]

This has some ridiculously high-quality animation!

[@grip2617]

These crab simulators are fantastic.

[@knessing7681]

this so called menace is a great food source, and should be taken advantage of.

[@mrwick4127]

so more or less what im hearing is that king crabs need to be farmed hardcore till the numbers come down

[@yeshuasbeloved549]

That's what I heard too. Me: sitting at table with clarified butter, lemons, sweet tea, nutcracker, Joe's Crabshack shell opener and bib. Also me: I'd like mine cooked in the garlic butter seasoning, please.

[@crispbacon641]

“More than likely they are responsible for this carnage” solid factual science nomenclature right there 😂

[@stockvaluedotcom]

Given king crabs cost 40 bucks or more wholesale you'd think there would be an easy solution for this.

[@flyrog07]

You wouldn’t want the price to go down to $15 would ya?🤔

[@stockvaluedotcom]

@@flyrog07 ???

[@7ElevenTruther]

@@flyrog07 Yeah I guess alaskan king crab fishermen would be kinda pissed if another plentiful source of their particular catch opened up across the pond and cut into their profits by driving the price down.

[@lifeongps]

Pound of Butter for that big guy!

[@atomicskull6405]

Interesting fact. Around the UK there is a related species of deep sea crab called the giant spider crab, it's just as tasty and there are millions of them but brits won't eat it because they don't like how it looks. What I'm getting at here is that "just eat the damn crabs" might not be such an obvious solution to everyone.

[@charlesbartlett2569]

Then export them to people who do eat them.

[@mensrea1251]

I don’t particularly like the way cows look either…

[@nobodysbaby5048]

Get the nutcrackers. Won't take but a taste. These things are amazing.

[@kilianhufgard1035]

sounds great where do I get the butter to eat them

[@noone5581]

I swear if i were the diver aside from grabbing 1 for research, i'm going to grab another 1 to boil. 😂😂

[@SammyGDude]

New title: "Gold bars washing on shore might damage seaweed; Country in chaos."

[@jacobdavis5518]

10x more respect to Mr. Krabs!

[@EnronnSierra]

Was the crab also the narrator of this documentary?

[@Chris.Davies]

Catch the crabs, and live-export them to Japan, where they are worth hundreds of dollars each. Problem solved.

[@andywei3092]

The next step is to open a king crab hotpot franchise

[@RootDragon04]

Intresting stuff

[@ronaldwatson1951]

Very interesting and gives scientists not only to see what effects on the habitat but control over fishing as well hopefully. Good video

[@kevincastrillon6675]

No wonder they taste so good. I just wonder if they are so many, why haven't we started selling them as a food source.

[@LightGecko]

The male king crab: “noooooooooooooo don’t take me to the lab I have kids”

[@trblcleft]

Send some my way.......I love crab

[@yasinansari7395]

Human: we’re taking the king crab to study it. Human: study is over bring out the butter. Crab: wait what.

[@christopherbellore3511]

LOOKS like we have a 'SUSTAINABLE,' source of FOOD for everyone who is hungry! 🦀

[@jonathanc.gillespie4897]

Let me add on a serious note: I think the Norwegians are taking a pragmatic view. They don’t want a fishery to develop for these because they don’t want to cement these as being economically necessary. And King Crab fishermen elsewhere probably don’t want the market flooded with cheap Norwegian King Crab.

[@tonyha3827]

Sounds like a blessing in disguise, knowing how popular the king crab is around the world

[@erickamekonapeper4007]

Time to call the Boys in! Full pots everywhere!😮❤🇺🇸🖖🏼

[@RAESCA.]

omg seeing this I was like I want one but they be so expensive

[@Shapeshifters07]

Many other commenters mention that if we were to fish for them, then people would actually increase their population intentionally to continue making a profit. Except that's kind of what's happening anyways... I think if they really wanted to get rid of them it'd be totally legal to catch them, but illegal to try to farm them, or even throw them back after catching. Either way, I'm sure people are catching them and seeding illegally. The whole reason they are there in the first place was to be farmed and sold. Probably by the select few allowed to farm them in limited quantities, who then trickle them into the market for a higher value. That's just my cynical theory anyway.

[@dairydregone7146]

Animal Control: "Hold my beer. We must catch them as much as we can to save the ocean and to sell them and make tons of money."

[@Jorg05111980]

They should really build a processing plant that completely get's all the meat from them automatically. I know that most will say it's impossible, but for shrimps they are / they have machines in the Netherlands doing it

[@Mack8053]

we will eat them then, problem solved