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Red king crab larvae and juveniles |
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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 | Kodiak Island red king crab larvae in the zoea stage, shortly after emerging from eggs at the Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery in Seward as part of the Alaska King Crab Research and Rehabilitation Program. (Photo courtesy Celeste Leroux, Alaska Sea Grant.) | crab-zoea.jpg
(6.1 MB) (Right-click or control-click to save image.) |  | Only about the size of a pencil tip, Kodiak Island red king crab larvae in the zoea stage, shortly after emerging from eggs at the Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery in Seward as part of the Alaska King Crab Research and Rehabilitation Program. (Photo courtesy Celeste Leroux, Alaska Sea Grant.) | crab-zoea-in-dish.jpg
(3.5 MB) (Right-click or control-click to save image.) |  | 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.) |  | 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.) |  | 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
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