If buying frozen king crab, she suggests that buying bigger is better. “It’s a lot of work to cut through previously frozen shells so you want as much meat as possible as the reward for all ...

Jon Williams, a Westport fisherman, is working to make the Atlantic deep-sea red crab as popular as the West Coast's king, snow and Dungeness varieties. <br /><br /> Fifteen years after he started ...

According to one Reddit post, Costco sells 10-pound boxes of pre-cooked and frozen Coastal Seafoods Super Colossal Alaskan Red King Crab Leg Clusters for $549.99, averaging at $55 per pound.

Red king crab harvested in Alaska is seen in this undated photo. Red king crab are the largest of Alaska’s commercially harvested crab species, and their meat is prized as a delicacy.

The recent shutdown of Alaska’s red king crab fishery got me thinking about how often overlooked Maine crab is. This weekend, I made a crab dip for friends using local Maine crab and was ...

Red king crab brought nearly $11 a pound during the last opening in 2011. So, it’s not unheard of to bring in a hundred-dollar crab. The last fishery was worth nearly $1.9 million at the dock.

Scott Kent, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Nome, says he has no idea why the red king crab is blue, but suspects it's just a mutation.

The king crab, literally, is out of the water less than 24 hours by the time it shows up here at Red. "You can actually smell the Bering Sea on the crab when I opened the box this morning.

Alaska fishermen will be able to harvest red king crab, the largest and most lucrative of all the Bering Sea crab species, for the first time in two years. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File) ...

A red king crab harvest returns, but at much lower levels than the past The allowable harvest that opened on Sunday, as set by the state, is 2.15 million pounds, a little less than the 2.6 million ...