Live Blue King Crab

Live Blue King Crab is brown with royal blue highlights. they turn a bright orange-red when they are cooked.

They are the the largest king crab species and one of the largest crustaceans. It lives on soft bottom habitats throughout the Bering Sea.

aralithodes platypus, the blue king crab, is a species of North Pacific king crab which lives near St. Matthew Island, the Pribilof Islands, and the Diomede Islands, Alaska, with further populations along the coasts of Japan and Russia. Although blue king crabs are among the largest crabs in the world and reputedly may exceed 18 pounds (8.2 kg) in weight, they are generally smaller than red king crabs