Red king crab eggs hatch in Alaska research program
Red king crab eggs hatch in Alaska research program
Submitted by Doug Schneider
Phone: 907 474 7449
03/08/07
Seward, Alaska--On a recent Saturday morning, red king crab number 1008 opened a flap on her underside and disgorged several hundred tiny eggs, each only about the size of a sharpened pencil lead.
Within hours larvae inside the eggs began to hatch, and a new generation of Kodiak Island red king crab began swimming in the seawater-filled tanks of Seward’s Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery on the edge of town.