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Figure 12 



Northern lady crab distribution, from winter dredge, spring trawl, summer dredge, and fall trawl surveys. 



Northern lady crabs Northern lady crabs were dis- were concentrated on the inner shelf from the eastern 



tributed on the inner middle- Atlantic shelf and Georges tip of Long Island southward. Two other pockets of 



Bank, mostly in depths <27m (Figs. 5, 12a-d). They concentration in summer and fall were on the shoals 



