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What are the eating habits of king crabs?

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Where do red king crabs live? Red king crabs are found around the Pacific Rim from eastern Korea to northern British Columbia and throughout the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Gulf of Alaska, Sea of Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka shelf to depths up to 250 m. What do red king crabs eat? read more

I’m going to assume that you are talking about Paralithodes camtschaticus (aka Red King Crab) since it is the main commercial species of king crab. They eat pretty much anything they encounter - worms, bivalves, echinoderms, algae, carrion, etc. read more

An examination of the stomach contents of 809 king crabs Paralithodes camtschatica (Tilesius) from near Kodiak Island, Alaska, also revealed that mollusca (mainly the bivalves Nuculana spp., Nucula tenuis and Macoma spp.) and Crustacea (mainly barnacles), followed by fishes, were the dominant food groups in terms of percentage wet weight and frequency of occurrence (Jewett and Feder, 1982). read more

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Spiny King Crab (Paralithodes rathbuni): Color, Shape ...
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