Snow crab gets MSC label
Norwegian snow crab is now MSC certified following an audit by Global Trust Certification to assess the fishery against MSC criteria relating to stock situation, ecosystem impact and management practices.…
The high survival rate demonstrates that snow crab are sufficiently resilient to cope with live storage. Images: Hanstholm Fiskeauktion
Live snow crab fetches promising prices at Danish auction
A first shipment of live snow crab, air-freighted from Greenland to Kastrup and trucked to Hanstholm, has fetched promising prices. ‘On arrival, we took them out of the boxes where…
Institute advises snow crab quota increase
Researchers Norway’s Institute of Marine Research have advised a hefty increase of 2500 tonnes to the snow crab quota, with quota advice of 10,300 tonnes. The quota for this year…
Norway’s Supreme Court has ruled that only Norwegian nationals and vessels have an entitlement to catch snow crab on the Norwegian continental shelf. Images: Odd-Børre Humborstad / Institute of Marine Research
Supreme court rules on Svalbard crab fishery
Norway’s supreme court has upheld a decision that denied a Latvian fishing company the right to fish for snow crab on the Svalbard continental shelf. Latvian fishing company SIA North…
Increased 2023 snow crab quota
Norway’s Ministry of Fisheries has set an 7790-tonne overall quota for snow crab on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2023. This is an increase of 1065 tonnes compared to the…
Climate conditions behind Alaska crab decline
The decline of populations of snow crab and Bristol Bay red king crab stocks in Alaska in 2022 have their origins in climatic events, with the red king crab closure…
Norwegian federation wants MSC blue tick for snow crab
Fishing vessel operators’ federation Fiskebåt is encouraging the Norwegian Seafood Council to initiate an MSC certification process for snow crab. According to Fiskebåt, this would provide a key selling point…
Gulf of St Lawrence snow crab quota increased
Canada’s Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Coast Guard Joyce Murray has announced that this year’s total allowable catch (TAC) for the snow crab fishery in the southern Gulf of…
Amending fish price-setting is priority for Newfoundland and Labrador
Seaward Enterprises Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (SEA-NL) states that an immediate priority for the 2022 inshore fishery is for the province to amend its fish price-setting system to address…
Image: Odd-Børre Humborstad / Institute of Marine Research
Advice for increased snow crab quota
Norway’s Institute of Marine Research has recommended a snow crab quota of 6725 tonnes for 2022, an increase on the 6500 tonne quota it advised for the current year. The…