In “Rogue Captain”, Jake Anderson discovers that Norway has a huge deposit of red king crab, the exact type of crab that Hansen and Anderson had caught in Alaska. He finds a buyer in the United States and tries to convince Hansen that it would be wiser to continue fishing for the red king crab instead of the new troll crab, but Hansen is determined to become king of the troll crab. Anderson finds himself tempted to part ways with Hansen and start fishing for red king crab in Norway on his own, given the fortune he could make, stating in the episode, “Lenny has buyers right now who are ready to pay top dollar in the US for king crab.”
According to an article by The Guardian, the red king crab found its way to Norway after being introduced to Russian waters in the 1960s with the hope of establishing a lucrative fishing industry in the USSR, earning it the nickname ” Stalin’s Red Army”. The red king crab is considered a highly invasive species in Norway – since its appearance, other types of marine life on the ocean floor have begun to die out, with likely disastrous results moving up the food chain. For this reason, parts of Norway have increased their catch quotas in an effort to reduce the red king crab population and help other underwater populations. This means that if Anderson decides to go completely rogue and start fishing for red king crab on his own, he will make a huge amount of money.
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