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| | Fishery Bulletin: Growth of juvenile red king crab in Bristol Bay elucidated from field sampling and analysis of ... |
 | | Sizes at 1, 2, and 3 years after settlement were estimated to be ~9 mm, 23 mm, and 47 mm CL in Bristol Bay compared with 16 mm, 38 mm, and 66 mm CL at Unalaska; at Kodiak, estimated sizes of 12 mm and 42 mm were obtained for age-1 and age-2 crabs, respectively. |
 | | Within the Bristol Bay trawl survey data, a total of 24 modes were identified for both males and females <~100 mm CL, which included the modal progression of two year classes that presumably settled in 1976 and 1990. |
 | | We compared the inferred growth rate for Bristol Bay with that determined from identical models fitted to Weber's (1967) data, and with two sets of length-frequency data available for the Kodiak region (Dew, 1990; Donaldson et al., 1992) to assess whether application of these growth rates to Bristol Bay crabs is appropriate. |
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