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Article: Changes in embryonic development and hatching in Chionoecetes opilio (snow crab) with variation in incubation temperature.
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- The Biological Bulletin
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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Introduction
Chionoecetes opilio (J. C. Fabricius, 1788) (Brachyura: Oregoniidae), commonly known as snow crab, is found in cold-water continental shelf environments at high latitudes throughout much of the northern hemisphere, with commercial fisheries occurring in the Northwest Atlantic, Sea of Japan, and eastern Bering Sea (EBS). Catch, catch per unit effort, and value of the eastern Bering Sea fishery peaked during the early and late 1990s, but declined dramatically in 2000 and have continued at low levels since (Rugolo et al., 2006). The EBS C. opilio population was listed as "overfished" under the Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act ...