Brown crab (Cancer pagurus) is one of the most recognizable shellfish in Europe thanks to the “pie-crust” edge to their shell, their distinctive brown coloring and large claws with black pincers.
Around 60,000 metric tons of brown crab are caught in European waters, making it the region’s most commercially important crab species. Thanks to their natural abundance in waters off the British Isles, the U.K. fleet takes close to half the European catch with the remainder shared mainly between …
