Shellfish
Red king crab
Paralithodes camtschaticus · Norwegian red king crab
Finnmark king crab, live or frozen clusters. Small quota, high value, and the tightest logistics of anything we handle.
Red king crab is taken in a quota-regulated fishery in eastern Finnmark and is among the highest-value products Norway exports per kilo. Live crab travels by air in oxygenated boxes with a survival window measured in hours, not days, and any delay in customs or ground handling is a total loss rather than a quality downgrade.
Frozen clusters are the practical choice for most buyers: cooked, brine-frozen and glazed, sold on cluster weight. Declared glaze percentage is where most disputes start, so we require net-of-glaze weight on every offer we pass on.
Season through the year
- January: Peak season
- February: Available
- March: Available
- April: Available
- May: Available
- June: Limited volume
- July: Limited volume
- August: Available
- September: Available
- October: Peak season
- November: Peak season
- December: Peak season
- Peak season
- Available
- Limited volume
- Out of season
Quota fishery with year-round landings; strongest supply in autumn and winter.
Where this product trades
Commercial specification
- Scientific name
- Paralithodes camtschaticus
- Production
- Wild-caught
- Condition
- Live · Frozen
- Size and weight class
- Clusters 0.5–0.8, 0.8–1.2, 1.2–1.8, 1.8+ kg. Live crab 1.5–5 kg.
- Packing
- Live in oxygenated 20–25 kg boxes. Frozen clusters in 10 kg cartons.
- Minimum volume
- Live from 100 kg by air. Frozen from one pallet.
- Product forms
- WR — Whole roundUngutted, as landed
- CLST — Clusters / sectionsCrab legs and shoulder
- Shelf life
- Live 24–48 hours in transit. Frozen 12–18 months at −18 °C.
- Temperature
- Live +2 to +5 °C. Frozen −18 °C or colder.
- Certifications available
- BRCGS Food Safety
- EU establishment approval number
- Health certificate
- Catch certificate (IUU)
- Incoterms 2020 normally quoted
- EXW · FCA · CPT · CIP · DAP · DDP
Send the specification and we return standardised offers from verified suppliers — same weight basis, same Incoterm, freight and fees separated out.