Table 2. — Number of tagged adult male blue crabs recovered after release at different localities in the St. Johns River 



> Kilometers upstream from mouth of St. Johns River. 



2 Approximate areas of recovery corresponding to kilometers upstream are: 



216 km.— Astor; 195— Lake George; 170— Welaka; 135— Palatka; 96— Picolata; 

 70— Switzerland; 40— Jacksonville; 15— New Berlin; and — outside river. 



St. Johns River and the Nassau Eiver during all 

 seasons of the year and migrated to the waterway 

 south of the St. Johns River, to the Ft. George 

 River, and to the ocean (from Fernandina Beach 

 to Cocoa Beach) primarily during fall and early 

 winter. Females migrated into the ocean from 

 April through October. Most returns were from 

 the vicinity of the moutli of the river, but others 



ranged from Jekyll Island, Ga., to New Smyrna 

 Beach, Fla. Sixty-six females recaptured in inland 

 waters nortli of tlie St. Johns River were taken in 

 the Inti'acoastal Waterway, the Ft. George, Nas- 

 sau, St. Marys, and Crooked Rivers, and Kings 

 Bay. Eight returns were from the waterway south 

 of the St. Johns. Two of these crabs, which were 

 tagged during late fall 1962, were recaptured dur- 



NEW BES 

 JACKSONVILLE 



'-JEKYLI ISLAND 10- 



CROOKED RIVER l-ft 



KINGS BAY 2ir 

 SI MARYS RIVER I* I-ft 

 FERNANDINA BEACH 2«4J? 



NASSAU RIVER 8» 47 :> 



INIRACOASIAL W/ATERWAY 3» 2 6 

 EI GEORGE RIVER 9*13«- 

 OFF MOUTH OF SI JOHNS RIVER 

 PABLO CREEK 2. ■- '8«I04» 



lOLOMAIO RIVER lU 



^i\ SI AUGUSTINE BEACH I* 

 MATANZAS RIVER 5»3» 



EW SMYRNA 

 BEACH l»I<r 



TAGGING SITE ▼ 



MALE RECAPTURE » 



FEMALE RECAPTURE iS 



LAKE JESSUP 



NEW SMYRNA BEACH 1« 



COCOA BEACH 2* 



ALERNO 14 



TAGGING SITE T 



MALE RECAPTURE « 



FEMALE RECAPTURE « 



FiGUKE 3. — Localities of recapture of blue crabs tagged in the St. Johns River that were recovered outside the 



river. 



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