This report summarizes research activities on the red king crab in the Barents Sea the recent three years. It is a collection of extended abstracts/small articles on the different research activities carried out in the frames of a 3-year joint research program on the king crab, initiated by the Russian-Norwegian Fishery Commission in the period 2005-2007. The report was presented at the 37the Session of the Fishery Commission in Bergen, 13-17 October
2008.