RESULTS 



Escape From Standard Pots 



Percentages of escapement of undersize and legal-size 

 crab from the pots of veirious designs and configurations 

 are shown in Table 1. 



Percentage escapement of legal and undersize crab 

 from individual standard pots during various times up to 

 16 days is revealed in the combined data for 1974 and 

 1975 (Tables 2, 3). To describe the cumulative percent- 

 age escapement with time, the data were first trans- 

 formed to arcsine values and an average computed for 

 each duration of soaking time. Using the asymptotic 



Table 2. 



-Escapement of legal-size king crab from standard pots 

 (data from 1974 and 1975 combined). 



Table 3.— Escapement of undersize king crab from standard pots 

 (data from 1974 and 1975 experiments combined). 



10 



14 



15 



16 



28.09 



36.96 



37.32 



39.88 



46.22 



46.80 



59.24 



61.22 



56.12 



65.34 



56.51 



22.2 



36.2 



36.8 



41.1 



52.1 



53.1 



73.8 



76.8 



68.9 



82.6 



69.5 



10 



14 



15 



16 



32.62 



45.97 



54.34 



53.39 



64.06 



61.05 



71.30 



71.08 



72.23 



76.24 



69.98 



29.1 



51.7 



66.0 



64.4 



80.9 



76.6 



89.7 



89.5 



90.7 



94.4 



88.3 



'Average arcsine retransformed to percentage escapement. 



'Average arcsine retransformed to percentage escapement. 



