The FAO groups fishery catches using the ISSCAAP classification (International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants).[2] ISSCAAP has a group for crabs and sea-spiders, and another group for king crabs and squat lobsters.
Crabs and sea-spiders are defined as including "Atlantic rock crab, black stone crab, blue crab, blue swimming crab, dana swimcrab, dungeness crab, edible crab, cazami crab, geryons nei, green crab, hair crab, harbour spidercrab, Indo-Pacific swamp crab, jonah crab, marine crabs nei, Mediterranean shore crab, Pacific rock crab, portunus swimcrabs nei, queen crab, red crab, spinous spider crab, swimcrabs nei, and tanner crabs nei".[Note 1][3]
The following table summarises crab production from 2000 to 2008, both caught wild and from aquaculture, in tonnes.[1][4]
^"Nei" is an abbreviation for "not elsewhere included".
^Crabs are measured across the widest part of their back, excluding the legs. See, e.g., 2006-2007 Fishing in Washington Rule Pamphlet (pdf), p. 130.
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^"The current International Standard Statistical Classification of Aquatic Animals and Plants (ISSCAAP) in use from 2000" (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-05-19. Retrieved December 7, 2009.
^"Global Aquaculture Production 1950-2008". FAO. Archived from the original on January 29, 2023. Retrieved August 26, 2006.
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^FAO: Species Fact Sheets: Portunus pelagicus, Retrieved 26 November 2009.
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^FAO: Species Fact Sheets: Chionoecetes opilio, Retrieved 26 November 2009.
^FAO: Species Fact Sheets: Callinectes sapidus, Retrieved 26 November 2009.
^Neal, K.J.; E. Wilson (2005). "Edible crab, Cancer pagurus". Marine Life Information Network. Archived from the original on 2009-02-14. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
^"Edible crab (Cancer pagurus)". ARKive.org. Archived from the original on 2008-04-12. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
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^ a b"The Dungeness Crab". Dungeness community website. Retrieved August 28, 2006.
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^Andrea Cohen (2006-08-09). "Crab nabbed; circumstances fishy". MIT News Office.
^FAO: Species Fact Sheets: Scylla serrata, Retrieved 26 November 2009.
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