Europe, Boring Until it's Not

[Montegriffo]

Fact is, snow crab is delicious.

Sounds like Norway might need help eradicating an invasive species.
With hot butter and a wedge of lemon.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's pretty good.

[TheReal_ND]

What the problem is?

[Speaker to Animals]

We need to eat all the British snow crab legs to save the environment..

[Montegriffo]

We need to eat all the British snow crab legs to save the environment..

Norwegian snow crabs.

[Otern]

It's not really about the snow crab at all, but since they're walking on the bottom of the sea, unlike fish, they fall under the same regulations as oil. That's why the EU so desperately want to fish for crab, because it would also give them the right to our oil in the future.

[Speaker to Animals]

Export all the crab to America for the sake of the oil reserves. I think we can manage $5 all you can eat snow crab legs for a while.

[Otern]

Export all the crab to America for the sake of the oil reserves. I think we can manage $5 all you can eat snow crab legs for a while.

As long as we get to fish it, I don't care who gets to eat it.

[Speaker to Animals]

Export all the crab to America for the sake of the oil reserves. I think we can manage $5 all you can eat snow crab legs for a while.

As long as we get to fish it, I don't care who gets to eat it.

Just fish it really fast so that there is a huge surplus and prices plummet.

To really get rid of them, you have to completely deplete them in 1-3 seasons. You are doing it for the oil. Don't worry about the prices.

[Hastur]

There will be troubled waters around Norway now:
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/life- ... orway-over

Also, when the Brits leave, we can't fish in their waters anymore, so we need to fully control our own waters, or there will be shitloads of unemployment. Can't fault the Brits for shutting us out of their waters though. But I'm glad at least the Norwegian justice system came to the conclusion that the snow crab is our property, since it also means the oil in that area will remain Norwegian too.

The EU is not going to let this one go though. They'll throw sanctions our way, bribe some treasonous politicians, give "team players", good jobs, and otherwise keep on doing their federalist shenanigans.

The article says the snow crabs are a new species in the Barent Sea.
Where did they come from and when? Are they causing problems to indigenous species?

The Soviet leadership really liked eating snow crabs so they set them out around Murmansk in order to have access to freshly caught ones. They moved them in from Kamchatka. Since then the crabs have moved steadily around the north cape and down the Norwegian coast. It's an invasive species but very delicious.