<P> Alaskan king crab fishing is carried out during the fall months in the waters off the coast of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands . The commercial harvest is performed during a very short season, and the catch is shipped worldwide . Large numbers of king crab are also caught in Russian and international waters . </P> <P> In 1980, at the peak of the king crab industry, Alaskan fisheries produced up to 200,000,000 pounds (91,000,000 kg) of crab . However, by 1983, the total size of the catch had dropped by up to 90% in some places . Several theories for the precipitous drop in the crab population have been proposed, including overfishing, warmer waters, and increased fish predation . As a result the current season is very short and in the 2010 season only 24,000,000 pounds (11,000,000 kg) of red king crab were landed . </P>

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