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Tuesday, February 9, 2021

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Rare Find: Local Fishermen Pull Up Albino Crab

Posted By Kimberly Wear @kimberly_wear on Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:51 PM

Some local fishermen pulled in a rare find: what appears to be an albino Dungeness crab.

According to a Facebook post, Comet Fisheries based over at Woodley Island brought up the unusual crustacean, which a crab expert says looks like the real thing based on the photographs.

The crab has been donated to HSU's Marine Lab, which notes it is not currently open to the public due to COVID-19.

" We will keep the crab until we are able to display it to the general public," a Facebook post by the lab on the Comet Fisheries' site states.

1 in a million! This crab will not be sold it will either be donated or released. We will be selling crab tomorrow and if we still have it you can check it out! It’s been offered to HSU Marine Lab.

Posted by Comet Fisheries on Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Scott Groth, a shellfish biologist with Oregon’s Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW),  described them as rare, according to an announcement from the Oregon Coast Aquarium when it had one on exhibit, possibly as rare as one in a million.

“In Oregon, we harvest between 15-20 million pounds of Dungeness a year,” Groth told the aquarium. “Each adult crab averages about two pounds. That’s something like 8 million crabs annually. We receive reports of these anomalous individuals maybe two or three times a year, so the odds of finding them are quite low.”

Tags: albino crab, Comet Fisheries, Dungeness, rarity, HSU Marine Lab, Woodley Island, Image

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