King Crab Photo Gallery, 2008
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Also see 2006–2007 king crab photo gallery
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Red king crab larvae hatch, 2008. (Photo courtesy Celeste Leroux, Alaska Sea Grant.) | red-king-crab-larvae.jpg (1.8 MB) (Right-click or control-click to save image.) |
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Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory agent Heidi Herter and Little Diomede Island resident Opik Akinga pull a crab pot up through the ice in April 2008, in an effort to capture female blue king crab with ripe eggs. (Photo by Deborah Mercy.) | blue-king-capture.jpg (464 KB) (Right-click or control-click to save image.) |
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King crabs spend their first several months in the plankton as larvae. This late stage larva is called a glaucothoe and is the last larval stage before the crab settles to the bottom and becomes a juvenile. (Photo by Celeste Leroux.) |
glaucothoe.jpg (620 KB) (Right-click or control-click to save image.) |
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This juvenile king crab was raised from hatching at the Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery and is approximately five months old. (Photo by Ben Daly.) |
red-king-juvenile-and-dime.jpg (692 KB) (Right-click or control-click to save image.) |
