Dungeness Crab Tagging Appears to Show No Harm from Columbia Estuary Dredging
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Daily Astorian] By Katie Frankowicz - September 5, 2017
It takes six hands to tag a Dungeness crab.
One pair of hands preps and tests small cylindrical, acoustic tags. A second pair lifts a crab from a bucket and gently dries a spot on top of its shell. A third has been busy mixing up epoxy in paper cups and now dabs a bit along a convenient groove at the top of the shell. The second pair of hands pushes the tag gently down onto this puddle of epoxy.
The crab looks a bit like a coal miner ...
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