1 june 2022

Russia

King crab returns to Primorye

More than 10,000 king crab juveniles were released into the water area of the Peter the Great Bay by employees of the Antey Group and scientists of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Juveniles were bred at the field experimental base ‘Vostok’. The weight of 10,000 individuals is only 40 grams, but in a few years one such a crab will gain a weight of 2-3 kilograms.

‘The development of technology for getting and  breeding viable young crabs took several years and it is aimed at restoring the stock of commercially valuable species of aquatic organisms,’ says Sergey Maslennikov, senior scientific officer of National Research Center for Marine Biology of FEB RAS.

Today, fishing king crab in the Primorsky subarea is officially prohibited as the resources have been depleted. In the nearest years, artificially grown juveniles will repopulate red king crab.

‘Our common goal is to repopulate the king crab, renew the ecosystem of the water area. Not only we, as owners of a fishing business, are interested in this, but also our population, we have a common interest, ‘ says Andrey Polomar, General Director of the Antey Group.