if crab fishing is so dangerous (think Deadliest Catch) why aren’t there crab farms like we have with fish?
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8th generation crab fishing here. Two reasons: space as they would eat each other and it takes to long to shed their shells to grow to get to a good size. When they shed their shell they come out like jelly but slightly bigger and they have to harden up again and that only tends to happen once a year maybe twice in colder water. In the late 90s my father caught a cock (male) brown crab that was one of the biggest caught in the channel. We named it Clarence and gave it to Plymouth aquarium where it sat in one of the tanks. It was over 20inches across the shell with claws the size of boxing gloves and they reckoned it was well over 30 years old. Be impossible to farm that.
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