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- ... that the annual catch of Bering Sea tanner crab (pictured) was as much as 332,000,000 pounds (151,000,000 kg), before a population crash due to overfishing?
- ... that a Halloween hermit crab may attack a snail in order to take its shell?
- ... that killer shrimp have invaded Western Europe and could soon invade North America?
- ... that until 1962, a salt-water crab lived in the Texas Panhandle, 500 miles from the sea?