South Korean live crab facility / processing

[Hawkeye]

Shows the boats returning with live crab that is taken out of their tote/bushels and put back into a tote by hand and then kept in tanks for auction.

The species is Portunus trituberculatus

Question - anyone watching the video - if you look closely at the claws, they all appear misshappen.  Far too often to be natural.  Do you think the crabbers purposefully break the claws?

[Harford Crabber]

I'm guessing the processers require the claws be disabled.

[Redbone]

They got crab!

[flatfish4x4]

probably use them for claw meat or claw fingers so pull them to processing separate

[Wallco99]

Disgusting. They ruin crab there.

[Mikie]

The crabs that they unloaded from the boat definitely had the lower half of the pincers removed. I guess they do that because they dump them in a big pile when they sort them, otherwise they would have a huge ball of crabs holding on to each other! The crabs that they brought out of the freezer before they cut them up, had about 1/4 of both parts of the pincers cut off. I don't know how that worked, looks like they still could grab onto each other.