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Dec 09, 2020 (newstodate): We do welcome the news of Qatar Airways Cargo's all-cargo flights from Evenes, but the service is hardly attractive for live crabs, says Bjorn Ronald Olsen, Cape Fish CEO.
   -It may serve as a complement to our existing air logistics that remain focused on Finnair's services to Asia from Helsinki Airport. But trucking live crabs to Evenes will still require some 14-15 hours trucking from our production sites in northernmost Norway.
   -Live crabs have a life-span limit of 35 hours from catch to delivery at the final market destinations, so adding a, say, six hours flight to Doha as well as hours in transit at the airport prior to final flights to Korea and Asia will not be an attractive solution for us.
   -On the other hand, opening new all-cargo flights at Evenes Airport may open the skies for other cargo operations from airports in Northern Norway, and that would of course be interesting for us, says Mr Olsen.
   The quotas for fishing king crabs have varied from some 1,400 tonnes in 2018 to only 8-900 tonnes in 2020, but expectations are that the quota will be raised again in 2021.