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Smaller crabs are eaten by a variety of groundfish, octopi, sea otters, and crabs, including other red king crabs.Larger crabs eat a much wider range of items including worms, clams, mussels, barnacles, crabs, fish, sea stars, sand dollars, and brittle stars.Smaller crabs eat algae, small worms, small clams, and other small animals.Red king crabs eat almost anything they can find and crush with their claws.After molting they are soft and vulnerable to predators until their new shell hardens.Red king crabs can only grow by molting (shedding their old shell and growing a new one).The larvae feed on phytoplankton and zooplankton for 2 to 3 months before metamorphosing into tiny crabs and settling on the ocean bottom.Larvae hatch from eggs looking like tiny shrimp.Female red king crabs reproduce once a year and release between 50,000 and 500,000 eggs.Males grow faster and larger than females. Red king crabs can grow to be very large, up to 24 pounds with a leg span of 5 feet.Fishing has been closed for red king crab in the Pribilof Islands and Western Aleutian Islands for many years.The Western Aleutian Islands stock is not subject to overfishing based on 2019 catch data, but data are insufficient to determine population status at this time (2017 stock assessment). Summary stock assessment information can be found on Stock SMART. The Norton Sound stock is not overfished (2020 stock assessment) and not subject to overfishing based on 2019 catch data. Summary stock assessment information can be found on Stock SMART. The Pribilof Islands stock is not overfished (2019 stock assessment) and not subject to overfishing based on 2019 catch data. Summary stock assessment information can be found on Stock SMART.
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The Bristol Bay stock is not overfished (2020 stock assessment) and not subject to overfishing based on 2019 catch data. Summary stock assessment information can be found on Stock SMART. There are four stocks of red king crab: Bristol Bay, Pribilof Islands, Norton Sound, and Western Aleutian Islands. According to the most recent stock assessments: Regulations are in place to minimize bycatch.