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Wiki: Crab Fisheries
Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or Fish farming . True crabs make up 20% of all caught and farmed worldwide, with about 1.4 million being consumed annually. The horse crab, Portunus trituberculatus, accounts for one quarter of that total. Other important species include flower crabs ( Portunus pelagicus), snow crabs ( Chionoecetes), blue crabs ( Callinectes sapidus), edible or brown crabs ( Cancer pagurus), Dungeness crab ( Metacarcinus magister), and mud crabs ( Scylla serrata), each of which provides more than 20,000 tonnes annually.
Commercial catch
- Crabs and sea-spiders are defined as including "Atlantic rock crab, black stone crab, blue crab, blue swimming crab, dana swimcrab, dungeness crab, edible crab, cazami crab, geryons nei, green crab, hair crab, harbour spidercrab, Indo-Pacific swamp crab, jonah crab, marine crabs nei, Mediterranean shore crab, Pacific rock crab, portunus swimcrabs nei, queen crab, red crab, spinous spider crab, swimcrabs nei, and tanner crabs nei".
The following table summarises crab production from 2000 to 2008, both caught wild and from aquaculture, in .
| Capture | 1,046,269 | 1,034,898 | 1,061,697 | 1,246,889 | 1,252,260 | 1,233,523 | 1,302,069 | 1,300,559 | 1,319,953 |
| Aquaculture | 125,501 | 145,130 | 171,979 | 167,533 | 178,838 | 195,995 | 198,258 | 231,065 | 240,781 |
| Total | 1,171,770 | 1,180,028 | 1,233,676 | 1,414,422 | 1,431,098 | 1,429,518 | 1,500,327 | 1,531,624 | 1,560,734 |
Commercially important crab species
See also
- Alaskan king crab fishing
- Crab trap
- List of harvested aquatic animals by weight
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