“Prepared for the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program.” Crabs molt every year. After they molt, their shells are soft and are not filled out with meat. It takes weeks for the crabs to fill out. The problem for fishery managers is that the timing of the crab molt varies from...
California, Oregon and Washington, in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission, have initiated a coastwide Dungeness Crab Management Program. The primary objective of the program is to develop economic and biological information essential in supporting management decisions leading toward better management of the...
In 1973, Oregon, Washington and California along with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission "entered into a cooperative State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program." As part of the process of setting up a coastwide management program, this 1977 report is intended to "inventory and evaluate the...
"Prepared for the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program. May 1974." "One of the initial objectives of the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program is to evaluate crab mortality caused by certain fishery practices. The areas of most concern include mortality caused by trawling, handling of softshell and sublegal crabs, lost pots...
The procedures presented are not THE BEST WAY or THE ONLY METHOD of crab meat extraction, since some plants may have different process requirements. By following this method, however, you will find that it is easier to remove the meat from a crab, and that you will be able to...
The California Current Ecosystem (CCE) is a dynamic marine ecosystem from which many socioeconomically important fisheries species are harvested. Here, a genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach was used to examine genomic variation in an early life stage (megalopae) of the Dungeness crab (Cancer magister), which constitutes the most valuable single-species commercial fishery...
PowerPoint slides and documents from a meeting between the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission, the Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and crab fishers at the Best Western, Agate Beach Inn on July 28-29, 2009. Topics covered included pot limits, derelict gear, vessel safety, crab logbooks, the Washington State buyback program,...
PowerPoint slides and documents from a meeting between the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission, the Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife and crab fishers at the Curry County Fairgrounds on July 30-31, 1997. Topics covered included buoy tags, logbooks, law enforcement, pot limits, the Washington State buyback program, derelict gear and...
Published July 1981. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the Sea Grant Catalog: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/publications
Published June 1983. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the Sea Grant Catalog: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/publications
This is an Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife exhibit for a meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. "This report reviews the status of Oregon's ocean commercial summer Dungeness crab fishery, discusses current issues and proposes a range of management options for Commission action... This report will highlight...
The power spectral density of the acoustic signature of
Dungeness crab was calculated by the use of digital computer.
The signal produced by the Dungeness crab was an analog signal.
Therefore a conversion of the signal from analog to digital was
necessary. This was done by sampling the acoustic signature...
Revised February 1982. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the Sea Grant Catalog: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/publications
This is a literature review summarizing what was known about the movements of Dungeness crabs on the West Coast. "Presented here is a summary of the available information dealing with Dungeness crab movements in waters off British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California." (from the Introduction) "Prepared for the State/Federal Dungeness...
The data in this document was presented to the Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission at a September 1, 2000 meeting. It summarizes the 1999/2000 Dungeness crab fishery in Oregon and gives an overview of issues of pot limits and preseason quality testing. Includes statistics.
"September, 2001, Updated October, 2002" - note from cover. "This report reviews the Oregon's ocean commercial Dungeness crab fishery. It provides both a present and historical evaluation of the fishery, its vessel effort, and gear use, but emphasizes more recent analysis and information relevant to a discussion of pot limits....
The following bibliography was first prepared in April 1974 for use as a working bibliography on the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program. The present collection combines the articles appearing in the 1974 report with those that have appeared through June 1976.
An earlier bibliography on the Dungeness crab (Butler, 1967)...
Dungeness crab is an important fishery on the Pacific Coast.
The processing subsystem of the fishery is hampered by a variety of
problems that have acted to impede technological innovations that
could improve efficiency and sanitation in seafood plants. This paper
provides background for problems encountered by the processors, discusses...
Dynamic marine environments can shape complex spatial and temporal patterns in the population connectivity of marine species, and this is often exemplified in species with long larval phases. Here, we used a genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) approach to examine fine-scale spatial and temporal genomic variation among Dungeness crab Cancer magister larval recruits...
Results of studies beginning in 1947 on the biology of the Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) in Oregon coastal waters are reported. A review is made of the history of the fishery with regard to trend of the catch by magnitude, area, and season; the development and conduct of the fishery...
This is an exhibit made by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on October 19, 2001. "This report reviews the status of Oregon's ocean commercial Dungeness crab fishery. An overview is presented for the entire 2000-01 ocean commercial crab fishery with a...
This document is an exhibit made by the Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on October 13, 2000. "This is an annual review of the status of Oregon's ocean commercial crab fishery, a review of preseason crab testing off Oregon south of Cascade...
This is an exhibit prepared by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for a meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on October 22, 1999. "This report reviews the status of Oregon's ocean commercial Dungeness crab fishery. Specific updates are presented that review the 1998-99 ocean commercial crab...
Discusses issues and objectives facing the Dungeness crab fishery in Oregon in the late 1970s. Issues included potential conflict between sport and commercial fishers over bay crabbing, natural swings in crab abundance, a need for uniform data from the West Coast states, lack of knowledge of how many crabs were...
This is an exhibit made by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on October 20, 1993. It is intended to establish rules "1) governing open and closed fishing areas in the event softshell crab results in a delayed season for ocean Dungeness...
A method for predicting the harvest of commercial Dungeness
crab (Cancer magister) one year in advance of the fishing season is
described. The technique is based on the hypothesis that the relative
abundance of sub-legal crabs one year is directly proportional to the
harvest of legal crabs the following year....
This is an exhibit prepared by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for an August 23, 1995 meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. The document "is a briefing on commercial crab fishery issues including the creation of a new ocean Dungeness crab fishery limited entry program by...
"Prepared for the State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program. June 1974." "Presented here is a summary of the existing data on Dungeness crab sport fishing in Washington, Oregon, and California excluding Puget Sound, Washington." (From the Introduction)
The California Current Ecosystem (CCE) is a dynamic marine ecosystem from which many socioeconomically important fisheries species are harvested. Here, a genotyping- by-sequencing (GBS) approach was used to examine genomic variation in an early life stage (megalopae) of the Dungeness crab (Cancer magister), which constitutes the most valuable single-species commercial...
This is an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife exhibit for an August 9, 2002 meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. "This report presents a proposal for a one-year pot limitation system for the ocean commercial crab fishery pot limit system for the 2002-03 season. It is a...
In 1974, large numbers of Dungeness crabs migrated into tide pools near the South Jetty of Yaquina Bay and went through their annual molt. The public discovered the abundance of crabs, and found that they were easy prey during low tides. The situation prompted an emergency closure of the area...
"Oregon's estuaries are focal points in an important recreational and commercial fishery for Dungeness crab. This report describes crabbing in Oregon's estuaries and includes brief notes on crab biology, catch statistics, major fishing areas, fishing regulations, problems, and proposed solutions." (Introduction) 13 pp. Internal discussion paper.
"The purpose of this report is to discuss the following topics: (1) a review of the Oregon crab fishery; (2) crab condition studies; (3) seasons and problems involved in setting seasons; (4) "backing" crabs prior to landing; (5) closures off river mouths; (6) pot versus ring fisheries in bays; (7)...
Published September 1975. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the OSU Extension Catalog: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/catalog
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...
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...
Much of this report is concerned with the perennial question of when crabs are in the soft-shell state, as opposed to when the commercial fishing season should be open. Other topics covered include molted crab shells, methods of measuring crab shells to determine if they meet size limits, early growth...
The Dungeness crab fishery is the largest and oldest known
shellfish fishery of the North Pacific coast of North America. The
stability and development of this fishery is seriously hampered by
increasing meat extraction costs and labor shortages.
Alternative solutions to offset the increasing costs and labor
shortages include: 1)...
Various buyout or retirement schemes are used, primarily to reduce fishing effort and capacity. Buyouts are used to provide economic aid in cases of natural disaster and to reduce the numbers of vessels, licenses, and gear in a fishery, i.e., capacity reduction. This paper is part of a larger internship...
"The sport/commercial interaction concerning Dungeness crab in our estuaries is heating up again. The shellfish staff has discussed this at length and agrees.that the interaction is an indication that our bay crab regulations need to be reviewed. There are currently two issues that need to be resolved: 1) The sport/commercial...
This document, an internal discussion paper for the Oregon Fish Commission, reviews the production levels and management of the Oregon Dungeness crab fishery. Topics covered include minimum size, the ban on taking female crabs, escape ports, crabbing seasons, inability to predict the recreational take, crab culture, and recommendations. The report...
This is an exhibit made by Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife staff for the October 16, 1991 meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. “In 1990, the Commission received a petition which called for prohibition of commercial crabbing within 1 1/2 miles of the mouth of Alsea Bay....
Oyster reefs provide an array of ecosystem services. Specifically, they provide structurally complex habitat for fish and invertebrate species such as the commercially important Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister. This ecosystem service, once provided by the native oyster Ostrea lurida, is now provided by the commercially cultured oyster Crassostrea gigas in...
"The 68th Oregon Legislative Assembly found the Oregon ocean Dungeness crab fishery to be overcapitalized and economically unstable due to excessive effort. In order to prevent further destabilization, the Legislature created a restricted participation, or limited entry system for the fishery in HB 3094. License limitation for the Oregon ocean...
This document is an exhibit prepared by the Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife for a meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. Topics covered include permit rules for vessels setting crab gear, coordinating season openings with California, new crab permit applications and the summer crab fishery. It includes...
This is an exhibit made by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for a rule-making hearing held by the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on October 21, 1992. The hearing concerned rules regulating the commercial Dungeness crab fishery including measures to adjust timing of the season, close crabbing areas...
In 1973 Oregon entered into a cooperative State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program with the states of Washington and California, the National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission. A study team consisting of two economists and a biologist was hired to review the Dungeness crab fishery and management...
"For State/Federal Dungeness Crab Management Program" (title page) "Surplus yield models, mark-recapture data, and length-frequency data have been used to determine how the annual catch of Dungeness crab in Washington, Oregon, northern California, and central California will react as fishing effort varies. Yield curves were estimated for Washington and Oregon...
This is an Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife exhibit made before the October 7, 2005 meeting of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission. The exhibit contains a briefing on the status of management of the crab fishery, and a proposal for a limited-entry Dungeness crab fishery from 3 to...
It is possible that the large fluctuations In annual Dungeness crab landings are caused by displacement of crab larvae by currents. We studied the effects of various environmental factors on crab larvae survival and behavior. Tests were conducted on cultured zoeae and megalopae and on wild megalopae.
Our studies showed...