| Title | Estuarine Crab Resource Monitoring and Assessment Project: Yaquina Bay and Alsea Bay, Oregon [poster] |
| Publication Type | Report |
| Year of Publication | 2009 |
| Authors | Vance, Mitch, Justin Ainsworth, and Oregon. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife. Marine Resources Program |
| Pagination | 1 p. |
| Date Published | [2009] |
| Institution | Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife |
| City | Newport, Or. |
| Call Number | Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | Alsea Bay, catch statistics, crustaceans, Dungeness crab = Metacarcinus magister (Cancer magister), growth, life history information, population biology, Red rock crab=Cancer productus, spatial distribution, Yaquina Bay |
| Notes | This is a poster-style presentation. Describes the beginning of a crab sampling program in 2008 and 2009. Sampling was done at 3 sites in Alsea Bay and 4 sites in Yaquina Bay. "Yaquina and Alsea bays are distinctly different estuarine ecosystems due to the differences in their size and drainage, their level of marine dominance, and anthropogenic alterations. Differences between the crab populations in these two estuaries may be related to the differences in the bays themselves. For example, the fact that we do not catch any red rock crab in Alsea Bay is probably due to the lack of rocky habitat that they prefer." (from the Discussion section) |
| URL | https://www.dfw.state.or.us//mrp/shellfish/docs/Vance_Ainsworth_Estuary_crab_monitoring.pdf |
