I remember when the king crab came to Norway well. It was considered an invasive spiecies, a pest, which harmed and drove out our native crab species. The ugly spider like crab was killing our friendly normal nostalgic crab. It was called an invasion from russia. 30 years later the russian invasion was a blessing. Interpret it how you want. Or not. Its just a crab. 😂
It can still threaten other local wildlife potentially. Perhaps deliberate over-fishing in certain areas could help to regulate it if the other species they threaten are considered more valuable to us.
@@wnosethey have always been very abundant deep on the subarctic cold ocean floor, but the most difficult part is extraction. Crab fishing boats have to pay workers insanely high wages or no one is willing to work under such harsh conditions. Also they need to be transported under refrigeration
Yes, probably. Oil and especially gas prices became sky high and we supply 40-50% of Europe with gas. The same with electricity - we have 17 cables connected to other countries in Europe so they buy Norwegian hydropower at a good price. But - We are also, with our 5.5 million inhabitants, the one who has given the most to Ukraine. We have and will give them close to $12 billion
@@titlingur2009 It is totally irrelevant. Norway has not asked for any war - that you sell your products and make money is precisely what buying and selling is all about. Norway owes nothing to anyone. We also don't live in luxury for what we earn - we leave it for the next generation.
It's interesting how war could turn a creature like the king crab into big business in Norway. From an invasive species, the king crab has now become a significant source of income.
@@wlee9888Asia. You sell to the market. They still make money selling at $30 per crab yet charge us 10x that here because we can afford it. Real fair.
How much would they pay me for these crickets I got if I soak them in salt water first? I do not understand why people will treat something that used to be reserved for prisoners and the homeless as a luxury. It's fishy sea bugs.
Norwegian here, I can't believe how lucky we are. Oil? Found it. Minerals? Got it. Fisheries? Doing it. Climate change? Lets do agriculture in the Arctic. Ukraine war? Let's sell oil, gas and fucking king crabs. We're a nation making fun of the rest of the world, by sheer luck.
It is only regulated east of north cape in cooperation with Russia. There are no quotas west of north cape, as the authorities wants to prevent it to spread further south.
Well much like the Dutch and the Danes, England has been a long time major trading partner and those have been global export and transport driven economies, so English language instruction starts early in school, so that helps a lot. Plus Norwegian, Danish, and Dutch are linguistically related to English so it isn't as foreign a language to them and between tourism and international business the local people use their English enough to stay proficient in it.
Its actually hard to do because those ae very cold waters to go check out how is everything down there, you can only get estimaes based around what the fishermen are caughting
It eats EVERYTHING on the bottom and used to be cursed by fishermen, and created a lot of fear propaganda on the news, until they started fishing it and saw the profit. I think a healthy quota system is the key to keep the whole ocean going normal for our children and grandchildren.
It has its natural range in the northern Pacific Ocean, but was released in the Murmansk Fjord on the Kola Peninsula in the 1960s by Russian scientists to build up a new industry in the area. In 1977, the first individuals appeared in Norwegian waters
It ms amazing that this article never mentions that when the king crab invaded Norway, Russia FORBADE Norway to fish these things even after they made their way down to Bergen.
Congratulations, Norway! Not only are you lucky, but you're also wise in how you manage your resources. My only suggestion is perhaps to be a little less frugal and enjoy yourselves more. You could also consider hiring people from abroad without necessarily granting them citizenship.
We do that, even if we're not in the EU we're still part of EFTA, which means anyone from the EU can come and work here. We have many people from Sweden and Poland coming here to work as an example.
They are trying. Obviously, in Asia it is heavily consumed, but in the US it is relatively new to the dinner table, so turning it into a commercially viable species is difficult. It will take a while to nurture a market for it. I think it's major drawback is its bones. Americans are used to filleted fish that is plated individually and aren't used to a fish being served whole on a plate family style where you use your chopsticks or a fork to pick the flesh out from between the bones. I think too that Asian Carp suffers from an image that it is a trash fish and not something you would want to eat. Though like many fish, someone just needs to come up with the right trendy recipe (Blackened Redfish for example) or market it under a different name (Patagonian Toothfish became Chilean Sea Bass just as Chinese Gooseberry became Kiwi Fruit) and sales sometimes take off. Maybe if they started calling it Freedom Fish, sales would increase. :)
It's funny and easy to see why historically such a massive number of Norwegians came to the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. As far as fishing and many other things, the land is like a copy of Norway.
Well it is a bit like the upper midwest in the US had many Swedes, Finns, Norwegians, and Danes settle there in the late 19th and early 20th century as cold winters didn't bother them. Cold seas wouldn't be an issue either.
I know this is a random question but does anyone in these comments know where to get King Crab in France? This Canadian is going through withdrawl. Absolutely impossible to find in the South West of France where I live.
I think I've seen some canned king crab a couple times. I suspect most people probably aren't too familiar with it and prefer tourteau from Brittany / Normandy and a few other varieties traditionally used in some regional recipes.
I wonder if there's a strategy for when sanctions against Russia will be lifted and the prices drop. I don't think the sovereign wealth fund will help this particular village rolling then. Norway's always been forward thinking so I'm guessing it'll prepare for the day but I wonder how just to satisfy my own brain.
Now that the industry have been established it's not going to go away just because competition returns. Established trade partners may still prefer to keep buying from Norway, especially if the prices are comparable. And with Russia's negative reputation bound to linger for decades the demand for non-Russian alternatives are bound to remain as well.
@@ShadowTani Probably will depend on how big the price gap is. Pre-sanction Russian King Crab was about $10 less per pound than Alaskan caught where I live in the US. As a result you hardly saw Alaskan King Crab at the grocer. Now part of that might be that restaurants were willing to pay a premium for the Alaskan caught crab and pass on that markup more easily than a grocer could.
Even if you froze them there to ship by container ship they would still be expensive as remote places like that are never cheap to ship from be it the North Pacific off Russia, the US, and Japan or the Arctic off Norway.
Moral of the story short: People change their minds when money appears. Once a pest becomes a delicacy. And politicians always exploit what is there to exploit by using words like "extremely fine product" for an invasive species.
What else should we do? We didn't bring the king crab to the Barents Sea, the Russians did, and if we didn't fish them, they'd spread even more. We can't eradicate them because a large portion of the stock is in Russian waters.
That is a fish of the flyndre/flounder family and is called Kveite (in Norwegian), aka Halibut (in English), with a typical adult weight of around 180 kg. As I am aware of, the largest specimen caught in Norwegian waters weighed 314.5 kg, caught by fishing net in 2007. Kveite is considered a traditional delicacy in Norway since the Viking Age, and probably long before that era. Kveite is described in writing in the Egil Skallagrimsson's Saga, as a food and important trade commodity remembered from his early years in Hålogaland, North Norway, among other places. (The Viking chieftain Egil Skallagrimsson lived in the period 910-990, in Norway and Iceland).
All I can say is that price per Kg in grocery store in Norway is a ridiculous $90/kg ($41/lbs) last a checked a month ago. That’s what happen the there is no competition and I don’t like it. All this hoopla about sustainability is code word for it’s only for the rich and it’s disgusting.
@@wrobelda Market inside Russia was controlled by companies from Norway. All infrastructure belonged to Norway. And Russia invested a little into it's own "salmon industry" not Russian own salmon fishermen are booming.
strange things about the winner and loser in the distance war. Look at the diamond cutter in India, the sanction on Russian diamond makes them without any work. They have done nothing to deserve this.
We learn english because there are much more english movies, videos, websites, etc and thus there are much more (and better) english movies than norwegian ones. Also the fact that our languages are structurally the same. For example "Kan du gi meg det?" Is phrased the same as in english "Can you give me that?" Its just the words sounds different. The biggest problem when pronouncing english would probably be the "th" as in thought. Also a bit struggle in pronouncing "w" because we literally never use it and see it the same as a "v".
saying its the only place western countries get king crab is a lie...... i live in Pacific northwest, most of our king crab comes from alaska.... except summer 2023 lol
Leviticus 11:9-10 New Living Translation (NLT) You may eat anything from the water if it has both fins and scales, whether taken from salt water or from streams. But you must never eat animals from the sea or from rivers that do not have both fins and scales. They are detestable to you.
And it will within the next 10 years if not sooner. Temperatures of the waters are increasing in that area (well, globally as well), which will kill off / push the crabs out. It's a temporary boon for them, they should make the most of it for what little time they can, cus the good times are going to come to a brutal halt in the near future due to global warming.
Nobody is thanking Russia for bringing the king crab to the region, there is only bad rhetoric coming from the Norwegian end, and honestly I don't even they are concerned about Ukraine.
It seems old Europeans' warfares has been endless, the wound of fued re-openned every 5-10yrs ever since GB empire rising around 16 century. As to those historical warfares, either picking fight among Anglo-Saxon or west Europeans fighting against slavics. The only difference between warfares centuries ago in Europe and these in most recent fifty yrs is, the former was pulling strings by brits in its small islands far away from great continental Europe, the latter happening nowadays is US turn to pull the strings from the big new continent lol
@@DeBeard My point is that many of the wars fought in Europe had nothing to do with the Brits or the US. Like any of them caused the Mongol hordes or the Roman legions.
@@viggoholmsen7203 it seems to dunno how an empire run to make them be recognized as an empire, its like yo got no idea how many wars, proxy wars and coup d'etat operated by the us empire
It's not like these were opportunities that were taken at the expense of Ukraine, they just happened to be the sole alternative to many Russian products, practically pressured by Europe to increase production too. Rather they are big supporters of Ukraine, it's nonsensical trying to place blame on them.
Because any money that russia earns is money that goes to russia spilling Ukrainian blood in Ukraine. Stop russian money, and they won't have money to spill Ukrainian blood in Ukraine. Very simple.
It's very simple and not at all funny - russia earns money through international trade and evasion of sanctions, and immediately puts it into weapons that it then uses in Ukraine.
