i&igust- C, 1941 
l&V Bogor W* Harrison 
Fish and Fildlif© Service 
2725 liijatiak© Boulevard 
Seattle, Washington 
Dear Imogen 
You arc dead right is wanting to distinguish between the 
meastwemente of the tangle netted crabs from Omm Bay and those taken 
with the otter trawl* I believe you om readily ascertain this from 
the fora sheets by means of our station auabtre and dates, either or 
both of will oh are at the top of all sheets* 
Chi Sep tester 16, 1940, late afternoon* Ueleexi put over about 
SCO yard® of tangle sets in Canoe Bay* Half of this (one shackle) was 
hauled between 5*00 and 5*00 the neat afternoon, the 17th, and contained 
272 1 ovig* ? jiaraligtody* fat and 1 measured all or most of then 
that earn ©v©r3Sc7fE~!muliag of this half of tins net ms given Sta* 
So# 13-40, Sept* 17, 1940* fh© net ms set in about 30 fathoms, and 
only half ma lifted this day because the water got pretty rough* 
Thirty-five of those crabs bbm mrnmrnd the nest day, the 16th. * 
Th® second half of the tangle set ms not lifted until the 
forenoon of the 19th* Tbit operation ms given our aoreallcd Sta* 
Ho* 16*40, Sept* 19, 1040. Fifty-seven crabs were taken in this 
shackle, 68d 2 ovig# 7* These were all measured by Mid-afternoon# 
This me the day th© Dorothy arrived at about 4*00 p.ra* and when she 
promptly went aipwuaC*'* was not freed until the same time the next 
day. Sept* 20# 
She Dorothy did not do any fishing until the afternoon of 
Sept* 21, tewing" Spearfe the forenoon rigging gear* It ms this Morning 
that we canned aost of tins crabs of the 19th which had passed out over 
night in the oooklag or steaming tanks where Seism had been trying to 
hold them alive with an occasional whangs of water* 
On Sept* 22 we measured the first of the Dorothy's otter 
trawled crabs 6f the day before, Sta, So* 23*40, Sep%V f 1 , T 940 , while 
the Dorothy got an other 125 orabs the same afternoon. Spot* 22. 
