Article body copyThe first thing to know about the green crab is that it isn’t necessarily green. In 2015, Roy swapped his eel license for a green crab one, after realizing his eel traps were coming up full of the crustaceans. But it’s not the only use for which the green crab could be commercially fished. The next step will be scaling up that process to assess whether and how they can produce larger quantities of chitosan from green crab shells. Instead, the aim is to keep green crab populations at a level that allows other species to thrive.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 13, 2021 06:56 UTC