Features of the fishery of red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815) at West Kamchatka in the modern period: a new fishing area in the Shelikhov Bay
https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2025-205-314-327
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Abstract
Current state of the red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus fishery at West Kamchatka is reviewed, with a focus on the northern part of the range — the Shelikhov Bay.
Dense aggregations of the crabs with commercial size were found in the southeastern Shelikhov Bay by the trap surveys conducted in 2019–2022, so an area north of 57о40′ N was opened for commercial landing of this species in 2023, on the background of declining catches in the traditional areas south of 56о20′ N. Despite the exceptional importance of the southeastern Shelikhov Bay for preservation of the entire population of red king crab at West Kamchatka, the fishery efforts in 2023 and 2024 were mainly concentrated here. Maintaining the areas prohibited for crab fishery is substantiated, the need to develop additional measures of fishery regulation for sustainable exploitation of the red king crab resource is concluded.
About the Author
P. Yu. Ivanov
Kamchatka branch of VNIRO (KamchatNIRO)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Pavel Yu. Ivanov, Ph.D., head of laboratory
18, Naberezhnaya Str., Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, 683000
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Ivanov P.Yu. Features of the fishery of red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus (Tilesius, 1815) at West Kamchatka in the modern period: a new fishing area in the Shelikhov Bay. Izvestiya TINRO. 2025;205(2):314-327. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26428/1606-9919-2025-205-314-327. EDN: AQFBUJ
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