Norwegian diving...

[Norseman]

<font color='#0000FF'>Hi all. Rather new to this forum but I thought I'd just throw myself in deep water right away.
Some pictures from Northern Norway in this thread.

Kyrre

Here's a Kamchatka king crab (the one without goggles):

[Norseman]

<font color='#0000FF'>And one of our seavolwes... or wolf-eel as it's also called. In Norway it's called a &quot;Rock-bite&quot; literally. This one weighs in at around 10kgs I guess. That's 20 lbs more or less.

[Norseman]

<font color='#0000FF'>A spider crab. Not very common, but I found a wall with a few of them just recently. Weird creature.

[peter k]

Nice piccies. I don't know if I'd be too happy with picking up that &quot;thing&quot; at the top. IIRC there was something in the news about them recently saying with global warming they are slowly migrating in this direction.
&nbsp;I seen one of the Wolf-fish/ Rock Salmon before and see quite a few of the Spider-Crabs. Nice wee things, bit delicate looking though.

Peter

[John Gulliver]

Hej Kyrre!
Where are you based and where did you take the pics? I live in Göteborg, have dived in the Kristiansund/Trondheim area several times but not further north. I tell UK divers to go to Norway – it's the best scenic diving in Europe, in my opinion.
Funny that you Norwegians  call the wolf fish stenbit. Stenbit is the Swedish name for quite a different fish, the male lumpsucker (Cyclopterus lumpus), the Swedish name for the female being kvabso. The common name for the species (i.e both males and females) is sjurygg (owing to the seven rows of bony projections). All very confusing! We call the wolf fish havskatt (literally sea cat), by the way.
I hope you catch and eat all those Kamtchatka crabs (trollkrabbor in Swedish) before they reach our waters. We don't want them killing all our edible crabs and lobsters.

[Norseman]

<font color='#0000FF'>Hey guys.
Thanks for the replies.
The Kingcrab pic was taken way up North near russia, in Vardø. I live in Harstad near Narvik at 69N and the two other pics were taken here.
When it comes to the Kingcrab it hasn't come down here yet. It's slowly migrating, yes, but apparently it's not too fond of warmer water. So unless the global warming actually diverts the Golf current there's a good chance the crab's gonna stay up there.
When it comes to killing it that is illegal for divers, and actually for most fishermen too. Because of an &quot;agreement&quot; with Russia we cannot take them all out.
BUT: If one of those crabs should attack us we have to kill them, right? And if they attack us in hoardes we need to kill a lot, right? And leaving all that meat down there will help their comrades live on, right?

Actually the crab's quite docile and easy to catch. Grab the hind legs and flip it round. Helpless. The rest cannot be spoken of &nbsp;especially with the many &quot;fish-huggers&quot; in the UK ready get me...

Any questions on Norwegian diving, especially in Northern Norway, I'd be happy to reply to.

Kyrre