[ckilmer]

On the east coast the big restaurant food and the one you can buy at the supermarket —is the king crab.

Have they cancelled king crab fishing as well?

Is there a replacement available?

[from occupied ga]

While I like crab meat, it has been so expensive I stopped buying it years ago. I just looked up the price for a pound of lump crab meat in Baltimore (I have relatives there) $62.99/lb. I can get rib-eye for $10.99/lb even when it’s not on sale. So theoretically should I get 5 3/4 lb of rib-eye and grill it or 1 lb of crab meat ... hmmm such a difficult decision (300 milliSec later a decision is reached). Rib-eye it is.

[mmichaels1970]

The red king crab season was canceled for the second year in a row, making it a two-pronged disaster for Alaska’s economy and for those whose livelihoods rely on crab.

Kings have been cancelled according to this. Not sure about substitutes. But I’d venture to guess that the Russians aren’t going to cancel anything.

I remember offloading to the Japanese back then, but I’m not sure if they do any crab fishing or if they’re just buyers.