Museum, vol. 124, No. 3645, p. 1-26. 



Assessed the status and interrelationships 

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 within the genera Portunus, Callinectes, 

 and Arenaeus. Results indicated that Callin- 

 ectes merited generic status. 



Stevenson, Charles H. 



1899. The preservation of fishery products 

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Contains one section on shipping live hard- 

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Stimpson, William. 



1860. Notes on North American Crustacea, in 

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Original reference for the generic name 



Callinectes. 



Stolting, W. H., M. J. Garfield, and D. R. 

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1955. Fish and shellfish preferences of house- 

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Results of a nationwide survey (1951) of 

 household consumers' preferences for fish 

 and shellfish. Data presented by regions of 

 the United States. The percentages of 

 consumers (all regions) who usually served 

 crab meat in preference to six other cate- 

 gories of shellfish were 9.0 percent for 

 frozen products, 13.2 percent for fresh, 

 and 30.4 percent for canned. 



Sturges, Lena E. 



1956. Canning and freezing oysters, crab, 

 shrimp and fish. Florida Agricultural Exten- 

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Preparation of crabs for home freezing. 



Sullivan, Walter E. 



1909. Notes on the crabs found in Narragan- 

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Sumner, Francis B., Raymond C. Osburn, and 

 Leon J. Cole. 



1913. A biological survey of the waters of 



Woods Hole and vicinity. Section III. A 



catalogue of the marine fauna of Woods Hole 



and vicinity. Bulletin of the U. S. Bureau of 



Fisheries for 1911, vol. 31, Pt. 2, p. 549-794. 



Brief account (p. 672) of the common 



occurrence of C. sapidus along muddy 



shores and bottoms, and among eelgrass, 



particularly in brackish water. 



Sundstrom, Gustaf T. 



1957. Commercial fishing vessels and gear. 

 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Circular No. 

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Includes gear and the type vessel used to 



catch blue crabs. 



Sykes, James E., and John H. Finucane. 



1966. Occurrence in Tampa Bay, Florida, of 

 immature species dominant in Gulf of Mexico 

 commercial fisheries. U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service, Fishery Bulletin, vol. 65, No. 2, p. 

 369-379. 



Western Florida and Gulf catches of blue 

 crab (1958-60). Size by season of blue 

 crabs in monthly collections in Tampa Bay. 

 Most abundant in winter. The blue crab 

 was the dominant portunid in collections 

 of metamorphosed specimens; larval forms 

 could not be identified to species. Data 

 indicated that Tampa Bay serves as a 

 nursery area for blue crabs. 



Szabo, Lorain Z. 



1955a. Standards for crab meat. Proceedings 

 of the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute, 

 7th Annual Session, 1954, p. 14-18. 



An account of food poisoning caused by 



crab meat in 1953 and its effect upon sales. 



Sanitary code for crab meat standards and 



bacteriological quality. 



1955b. Quality standards for crabmeat. 



Southern Fisherman, 1955 Yearbook, vol. 15, 



No. 10, p. 86,221. 



The part played by the National Fisheries 

 Institute Technical Committee in solving 

 the quality standards problems that arose 

 in 1953 due to some cases of food poison- 

 ing attributed to crab meat. Also the 

 development of the voluntary industry 

 code set up by the Blue-Crab Committee. 



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