Jonah crab and Atlantic rock crab in the United States are currently assessed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate change vulnerability assessments under the category Cancer crabs due to a dearth of species‐specific information across the attributes assessed. These species are frequently bycatch in the American lobster fishery and have low landed volume in comparison to larger Northeast US commercial fish...

Targeted fishing of Jonah crabs ( Cancer borealis ) has greatly intensified in recent decades as lobster populations have declined, forcing fishermen to shift their focus to Jonah and other crab species. Effective management of this developing fishery is limited, however, by a lack of information on their life history traits, abundance and distribution. The long‐term sustainability of the fishery depends upon near‐term efforts...