Techniques used at Nags Head, N.C. Crab 

 fykes used to capture soft shells, separation 

 of crab stages, onshore concrete shedding 

 bins, and marketing soft-shell crabs. 



1968a. Crab pots borrow boat hulls' idea of 



sacrificial metals. Fish Boat, vol. 13, No. 6, p. 



79,87. 



Tests in the York River, Va., indicated that 

 the service life of blue crab pots can be 

 more than tripled when zinc anodes are 

 attached for corrosion protection. 



1968b. Machine picks the picked crab. North 



Carolina Commercial Fisheries Newsletter, 



vol. 4, No. 3, p. 4. 



The use of a new picking machine at 

 Southport, N.C, that picks parts of the 

 crab that previously were discarded. 



1969. Crab watch. North Carolina Tar Heel 



Coast, vol. 5, No. 3, p. 4. 



North Carolina biologists check for signs of 

 the "gray crab sickness." Causes changes in 

 the blood and external color and results in 

 death in about 4 days. Mass blue crab 

 mortalities have occurred irregularly in 

 Georgia and South Carolina since 1964 

 (crab production decreased 50 percent), 

 and these kills seem to be spreading north- 

 ward and southward. 



Anzulovic, J. V., and R. J. Reedy. 



1954. Pasteurization of crabmeat. Fishery 

 Market News, vol. 4, No. 1, p. 3-6. 

 1954. Pasteurization of crabmeat— II. Fishery 

 Market News, vol. 4, No. 2, p. 9-10. 



The two above publications give results of 

 studies on pasteurization of crabmeat; and 

 also specific methods of pasteurization. 



Arnold, Augusta Foote. 



1903. Genus Callinectes, p. 275-276. In 

 Augusta Foote Arnold, The sea-beach at 

 ebb-tide. The Century Co., New York. 



Distribution, taxonomic description, gen- 

 eral habits, and habitat. Second only to the 

 lobster as the most important commercial 

 crustacean. 



Ashbrook, Frank G. 



1965. The beautiful swimmer. Sea Frontiers, 



vol. 11, No. 6, p. 334-341. 



In 1860, William Stimpson, a taxonomist, 

 named a group of swimming crabs Callin- 



ectes, meaning beautiful swimmer. Popular 

 account of the fishery, industry, and 

 biology of the blue crab. Sport crabbers 

 catch huge quantities along the Atlantic 

 coast. 



Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. 

 1941-69. Annual reports to the U.S. Congress 

 and to the Governors of Atlantic Coast States. 

 Various reports contain information on the 

 blue crab industry and on research pro- 

 grams of Atlantic Coast States and the U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service. 



Atwater, W. O. 



1892. The chemical composition and nutritive 

 values of food-fishes and aquatic inverte- 

 brates. U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisher- 

 ies, Report for 1888, p. 679-868. 



Composition of edible portion of the blue 

 crab (protein, fat, carbohydrate, ash, and 

 water). 



Ayers, John C. 



1938. Relationship of habitat to oxygen 

 consumption by certain estuarine crabs. 

 Ecology, vol. 19, No. 4, p. 523-527. 



Rates of oxygen consumption of represen- 

 tative species of decapod crabs from 

 different habitats at Beaufort, N.C. The 

 consumption of 10 blue crabs (0.83-1.39 

 ml. O2 per g. per hour) averaged higher 

 than less active nonswimming aquatic crabs 

 investigated. 



Baley, A., and W. S. Hamill. 



1935. Crab resources, p. 47-50. In Conserva- 

 tion problems in Maryland. Maryland State 

 Planning Commission, Sub-committee on 

 Conservation. 



Crab migrations in Chesapeake Bay be- 

 tween Maryland and Virginia during the life 

 cycle, and how fishing practices in each 

 state affect the supply of crabs and crab 

 meat. 



Ballard, Buena Street. 



1968. Osmotic accommodation in Callinectes 

 sapidus Rath bun. Ph. D. thesis, State College, 

 Mississippi, 1967, 59, [20] p. Dissertation 

 Abstracts, vol. 28, No. 9, p. 3921B. 



Crabs passed through a series of salinities 



