United States Department of the Interior, Fred A. Seaton, Secretary- 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, Arnie J. Suomela, Commissioner 



OBSERVATIONS OF MOLTING FEMALE KING CRABS 

 (Paralithodes camtschatica ) 



by 



Henry M. Sakuda 

 Fishery Research Biologist 



Contribution No. k to research conducted with the 

 approval of the United States Section of the International 

 North Pacific Fisheries Commission. The Commission, es- 

 tablished in 1953 by the International Convention for the 

 High Seas Fisheries of the North Pacific Ocean, coordinates 

 the research of the member nations: Japan, Canada, and the 

 United States. The resulting investigations provide data 

 to the Commission for use in carrying out its duties in 

 connection with fishery conservation problems in the North 

 Pacific Ocean. Publication of this scientific report has 

 been approved by the United States Section of the Commission. 



Special Scientific Report— Fisheries No. 274 



Washington, D. C 

 December 1958 



