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=== Counterfeit Yangcheng Lake crabs ===
Counterfeit crabs are a problem in the hairy crab industry. Due to the high demand for hairy crabs specifically from Yangcheng Lake, many vendors sell hairy crabs from other lakes and claim they are authentic Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs. Although only 3,000 tons of Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs were harvested in 2012, more than 100,000 tons of supposed "Yangcheng" crabs were sold.<ref name="NPR.org"/><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Now, fake hairy crabs |url=http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-10/21/content_274117.htm |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=www.chinadaily.com.cn}}</ref>

"Bathing crabs" are hairy crabs sourced from elsewhere which are temporarily placed in Yangcheng Lake and then fraudulently sold as genuine Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs.<ref name=":Liu">{{Cite book |last=Liu |first=Lizhi |title=From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |year=2024 |isbn=9780691254104 |pages=70}}</ref>

Identifying counterfeit crabs is a hard task, as the Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs look exactly like other hairy crabs. Technology has been implemented to identify fake hairy crabs, such as laser tags, prints, and barcodes, but these are easily forged.<ref name=":2" /> Blockchain-based tracing has also been implemented, where caught crabs are entered into a blockchain.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chinese Search Giant Baidu Launches A Blockchain Applet To Tackle 'Counterfeit' Yangcheng Lake Hairy Crabs {{!}} NEWS.8BTC.COM |url=https://news.8btc.com/chinese-search-giant-baidu-launches-a-blockchain-applet-to-tackle-counterfeit-yangcheng-lake-hairy-crabs |access-date=2022-06-25 |language=en-US |archive-date=2021-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020013110/https://news.8btc.com/chinese-search-giant-baidu-launches-a-blockchain-applet-to-tackle-counterfeit-yangcheng-lake-hairy-crabs |url-status=dead }}</ref> Efforts to combat bathing crabs are ongoing.<ref>{{cite web |last=Yan |first=Alice |date=6 October 2012 |title=Trade in fake Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs rampant |url=https://www.scmp.com/comment/article/1054958/trade-fake-yangcheng-lake-hairy-crabs-rampant |access-date=25 June 2022 |website=[[South China Morning Post]]}}</ref>