I served an internship with the National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Center (NWAFC), Resource
Assessment and Conservation Engineering (RACE) division in Seattle,
Washington from June, 1983 to December, 1983. This experience proved to
be very rewarding because of the techniques I learned, the job
experience I...
One of the most important fisheries of the Austral zone,
corresponding to the Magallanes area and the Magellan Strait,
is the king crab (Centolla), Lithodes antarctica. The basic objective of this project is to describe the fisheries of this resource from an economic-biological stand point.
The claw shuddering display of the shore crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis was explored with acoustic and behavioral observations. Male H.
oreqonensis stridulate during claw shuddering display. The stridulatory apparatus is present only on the males. The acoustic signal was of brief duration, showed a general pattern of sound bursts, but varied...
Oregon Fishermen in Ocean Observing Research (OrFIOOR) is a cooperative research program between ocean scientists and fishermen in the Pacific Northwest. Dungeness crab fishermen attach sensor packages (temperature and dissolved oxygen) to crab pots. The pots serve as platforms of opportunity for ocean observing. This study examines three principle questions...
A rapid gas liquid chromatographic method was adapted to processed
Dungeness crab for the determination of basic and neutral
volatiles. Methylamine, dimethylamine, and trimethylamine were
measured in processed Dungeness crab for the first time. Generally,
the range for trimethylamine was 42 ppm for frozen crab to 700 ppm
for iced...
The purpose of this study is to describe Dungeness crab marketing
from the ocean floor to the ultimate consumer; to identify
relations among the Oregon Dungeness crab industry, the Pacific
Coast Dungeness crab industry, and the Alaska King crab industry;
and to specify the relationships between fishermen's prices for
Dungeness...
Means of improving yield and quality of cooked meat from Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) were investigated. Processing factors of cooking time, cooking medium, and condensed phosphate treatment were evaluated. The effect of condensed phosphate treatment and its interrelationship with cooking time and medium on meat was determined.
Meat yield (wet...