New England’s rarest local seafood? For every 10,000lbs of lobster landed, lobstermen in some parts of the Gulf of Maine might catch one or two of these Norway King Crabs (lithodes maja). They’ve also been called Queen Crabs, trollkrabbes or northern stone crabs, but most GoM lobstermen just call them Spider Crabs. This pair was caught at 45 fathoms less than 10 miles from southern Maine. Their range is impressive–from the Arctic in Svalbard Norway all the way over & down to Baltimore Canyon, wh