Crab meat 800 years ago. Surimi is commonly used in Japan to make a type of fish ball or cake called kamaboko. In 1975, a method for processing imitation crabmeat from surimi was invented in Japan, and in 1983, American companies started production. Declawing of crabs is the process whereby one or both claws of a live crab are manually pulled off and the animal is then returned to the water. It occurs in several fisheries worldwide, such as in the Florida stone crab ("Menippe mercenaria") fishery, the north-east Atlantic deep-water red crab ("Chaceon affinis") fishery and in southern Iberia, where the
Coconut crab is classified in the family Coenobitidae, alongside one other genus, "Coenobita", which contains the terrestrial hermit crabs. Common names for the species include coconut crab, robber crab, and palm thief, which mirrors the animal's name in other European languages ("e.g." ). Coconut crab The coconut crab ("Birgus latro") is a species of terrestrial hermit crab, also known as the robber crab or palm thief. It is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper size limit for terrestrial animals with exoskeletons in recent times, with a weight up to . It can grow to up