14. Relative growth (percent increase in carapace length at molting) 

 decreases with an increase in size. Sixty mm lobsters increased by 18% com- 

 pared to 6% for 120 mm lobsters. Frequency of molting was not defined. 



AUTHORSHIP 



Dr. Richard Cooper was largely responsible for designing and writing the 

 population djmamics sections of this study. Dr. William Herrnkind assumed 

 major responsibility for directing the field research after the TEKTITE 

 program was completed and wrote the behavioral sections of this report. 



ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 



We thank the surface support team of diver/scientists for the many hours of 

 diving, data collection and analysis which has made this study possible. They 

 are Messrs. Steven Serf ling, William Rainy, and Nickolas Hylton. 



We also wish to acknowledge the support given by the Office of Sea Grant 



to this project through a grant to College of the Virgin Islands, Ian Koblick 



principle investigator. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Clifton, H., C. Mahnken, J. VanDerwalker, and R. Waller. 1970. TEKTITE I, 



Man-In-The-Sea Project: Marine Science Program, Science, 168: 659-663. 



Cooper, R. A. 1970. Retention of marks and their effects on growth, behavior, 

 and migrations of the American lobster Homarus americanus . Trans, Amer. 

 Fish. Soc. 99: 409-417. 



Ricker, W. E. 1958. Handbook of computations for biological statistics of 

 fish populations. Bull. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada 119, 300 p. 



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