Yesterday Tara and I went out and collected crab pots out in Fritz Cove in Juneau, AK. We are gathering young molting tanner crabs to study their growth and take hemolymph samples aka "crab blood", to start studying bitter crab disease.
Small female dungeness crab
Large hermit crab
Tara pulling crab pots
Female king crab and her clutch of eggs
A young tanner crab
Measuring the carapace width of the tanner crab
Taking hemolymph samples using a syringe in the crab's leg. 
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