Invasive Snow Crab May Affect Alaska Crab Sales

KODIAK -- It's an invasive species problem that Alaska would love to have. Millions of snow crab are on the march in the Barents Sea, and no one knows how they got there or what to do with them -- yet.
The Barents Sea, which straddles Norway and Russia, is the same source of all of that jumbo king crab, much of it caught illegally, that wreaked havoc on Alaska's market for the past couple of years.
But unlike king crabs, which were purposely introduced by Russia into those waters in 1966, the opilio, or snow, crab is a true invasive species. Longtime market analyst Ken Talley reports that no one is sure how the snow crab reached the Barents. The first sightings appeared in the Russian zone in 1996.

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