The biggest crab in the world, the Japanese spider crab, is capable of achieving a leg span of more than 13 feet (4 meters) across. Read on to get better acquainted with the Japanese spider crab ...

They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone, external skeletons, and multiple-jointed appendages. In this crab’s case, those appendages are its 10 legs.

But the Trident Seafoods facility in St. Paul — which the company calls the “largest crab processing plant in the world” — isn’t taking any crab. Trident says the quotas are too small to ...