What is the difference between an alaskan crab and a king crab?!
What is the difference between an alaskan crab and a king crab?
Answers:
There are many types of "Alaskan" crab, while there is only one "king" crab (actually there are "red", "blue" and "golden" king crab, but same species). Of Alaskan crab, there is besides the king, the opilio or "snow" crab, among others. See source link for more detail.
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/alaskan_kin...
The size, Alaskan Crabs are huge
Size and price basically.
Alaskan crab and king crab are synonymous. You are probably thinking Alaskan king crab versus snow crab. Snow crab is smaller in, great abundance, and cheaper to buy than it's cousin the king crab who is much much larger, and very difficult and dangerous to fish.
They are called Alaskan King crabs,so no difference.Now ask me about blue crabs...yummy
They are all king crabs yet once they get to be really large people tend to call them Alaskan. This is due to Alaska having a lot of the larger ones there. But you can find king crabs all over the world. On the east north east coast of NE and Canada they re known as queen crabs as those are smaller than ones out west. They are also known as Russian or Japanese crab elsewhere.