ABSTRACT
Ever since shing for king crabs began, there has been concern about the impacts of shing on crab populations and their ecological communities. Such impacts can include bycatch, either of other organisms during the king crab shery or of king crabs during other sheries, discarding of crabs and subsequent injury or mortality, unseen damage by trawls and capture by derelict traps or “ghost pots,” and damage to benthic communities that support king crabs.
