Altman, Philip L., and Dorothy S. Dittmer [ed.] 



1964. Biology data book. Federation of 

 American Societies for Experimental Biology, 

 Washington, D.C., 633 p. 



References to the blue crab include distri- 

 bution, data on propagation, life span (3 

 years), and heart rate (25-84 beats per 

 minute at 22-23° C). 



Amanieu, Michel, and Jean Le Dantec. 



1961. Sur la presence acciden telle de Callin- 

 ectes sapidus M. Rathbun a' l'embouchure de 

 la Gironde. Revue des Travaux de l'lnstitut 

 des Peches Maritimes, vol. 25, No. 3, p. 339- 

 343. Also in: Bulletin de la Station Biologique 

 d'Arcachon, No. 14 (1962). 



Distribution, culture, behavior, economic 

 value, and occurrence in Gironde River, 

 France. 



Amberson, W. R., H. S. Mayerson, and W. J. 

 Scott. 



1924. The influence of oxygen tension upon 

 metabolic rate in invertebrates. Journal of 

 General Physiology, vol. 7, No. 1, p. 171-176. 

 Oxygen consumption of the blue crab 

 depends on external oxygen pressures over 

 the whole range tested and therefore has no 

 critical pressure. 



Anderson, John D., and C. L. Prosser. 



1953. Osmoregulating capacity in populations 

 occurring in different salinities. Biological 

 Bulletin (Woods Hole), vol. 105, p. 369. 



Blue crabs and quahogs (Venus) from high 

 and low salinities were placed directly into 

 dilutions of sea water. Regulation failed in 

 high-salinity crabs at 0.1 N NaCl equivalent 

 and in low-salinity crabs at 0.04 N NaCl. 

 Blood was hypotonic in 100 percent sea 

 water. 



Anderson, William W., and Jack W. Gehringer. 



1965. Biological-statistical census of the 

 species entering fisheries in the Cape Canav- 

 eral area. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

 Special Scientific Report-Fisheries No. 514, 

 79 p. 



An account of the year-round commercial 

 fishery and the summer sport fishery for 

 blue crabs at Cape Canaveral. Brief account 



of the biology of the blue crab (Chesapeake 

 Bay). 



Andrews, Emmett. 



1947. Crab pot construction (Chesapeake Bay 



type). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery 



Leaflet No. 262,4 p. 



Materials and method of construction and 

 how fished. 



1948a. The "bob" method of picking blue 



crabs. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery 



Leaflet No. 276,6 p. 



Description and step by step pictures of the 

 "bob" method (so named because all the 

 legs are cut off before picking is begun), a 

 rapid way of separating the meat from the 

 shell. 



1948b. Trotline construction, operation, and 



maintenance (Chesapeake Bay type). U.S. 



Fish and Wildlife Service, Fishery Leaflet No. 



291, 5 p. 



A detailed account with good illustrations. 



Anonymous. 



1939. Blue crabs. Time, vol. 34, September 

 25, p. 61-62. 



A discovery by industry of a treatment for 

 blue-crab-meat that prevents discoloration 

 in the canning process and allows the indus- 

 try to compete with dungeness crab prod- 

 ucts and foreign imports of crab. 

 1940a. The occurrence and development of a 

 hyperparasite, Urosporidium crescens 

 (Sporozoa, Haplosporidia) which infests the 

 metacercariae of Spilotrema nicolli, parasitic 

 in Callinectes sapidus. Journal of the Tennes- 

 see Academy of Science, vol. 15, No. 4, p. 

 418-419. 



One third of the crabs examined in North 

 Carolina contained metacercariae, and the 

 host metacercarial tissue was often des- 

 troyed (masses of dark spores produce a 

 black spot, referred to as "pepper crab"). 

 Spots occur most commonly in fat bodies, 

 digestive gland, and muscles of the crab. 

 Invasion by Urosporidium probably occurs 

 before encystment of cercariae. 

 1940b. Packing crab meat. Fishing Gazette, 

 vol. 57, No. 1, p. 23. 



Procedures used by a New Orleans plant to 

 pack crab meat. 



