This study was conducted as part of the AKCRRAB Program (Alaska King Crab Research, Rehabilitation, and Biology) funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Aquaculture Program and the Alaska Sea Grant College Program.
In 2005, a group of industry, agency, scientists and community representatives formed an ad-hoc group, Alaska King Crab Research, Rehabilitation and Biology Program (AKCRRAB), to seek ways to enhance Alaska's depleted blue king crab stocks in the Pribilofs and red king crab stocks in the Gulf of Alaska.