Various Methods
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plants operated in Olga and Moser
Bays from 1941 to 1944 depended
entirely upon pots.
Early pots were modifications
of Dungeness crab pots, with
larger tunnels and eyes. The
metal frames were covered with
a salmon trap wire and seine net
ting. Some pots were even con
structed with wooden frames.
Manila rope and pot warp were
employed for buoy lines (some
still is) and strings of seine corks
were used for buoys.
The pot has gradually evolved
to the point where the size is be
ing standarized, and stainless
steel wire is woven on the frames.
Mile and stainless steel rod is
used for tunnel eyes and triggers,
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and synthetic nbers are replac
ing manila for buoy lines, notably
nylon. Presently styrofoam and
inflated platic buoys are in com
mon use, making the pots and ac
cessories stronger and longer
lived.
Constant experimentation has
improved pot efficiency also. Tun
nel height, slope and eye size are
being changed today. The pot
that has more-or-less become the
standard for the Kodiak Area is
a round pot about 6M> feet in di
ameter, thirty inches high with two
tunnels. The fishermen have
found that this pot can be picked
in rough waters without breaking
up or snapping buoy lines, and it
fishes well. The square or rectan
gular pot is also used quite exten
sively.
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ery quite closely in that they de
veloped and grew in much the
same manner and at approximate
ly the same time.
COMMERCIAL KING CRAB
CATCH, KODIAK ISLAND
1951 . 196,000
1952 . 526,000
1953 . 817,000
1954 . 4,764,000
1955 . 2,395,000
1956 . 4,788,000
1957 .•. 5,178,000
1958 . 5,314,000
1959 . 10,646,000
1960 . 17,537,000
1961 . 29,077,000
Puppets Plan
Performances
A group of puppets have been
practicing away for days, perfect
ing their roles for a performance
they are presenting during the
King Crab Festival that will make
the real, live actors in the Milli
kens Show look to their laurels.
This is the word from the local
Girl Scouts sponsors, who are pre
senting Brownie Troupe No. 22 in
two half-hour performances on Sat
urday and Sunday each, at 2 and
4 . M.
The program is designed for
young and old and will be held
at the old Downtown School. Mem
bers of Brownie Troupe No. 22,
in the 9-year age group, created
the hand puppets themselves, and
also made the stage for the pre
sentation.
There’s no admission charge but
contributions will be sought to
help in Girl Scout work. Everyone
is welcome.
King Crabs Shed
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supply) neglected to molt, possib
ly indicating some relationship
between diet and molting. Crabs
suffering from injuries showed
signs of non-molting. The non
molting condition may be useful
as an index of food supply, popu
lation abundance, age, or general
health of an individual crab.
Molting and reproduction pri
marily occur in shallow water.
Both sexes grow at similar rates
until at sexual maturity (4 or 5
years of age) the female rate of
growth greatly slows. At approx
imately six years of age, male
crabs reach legal size (6.5 inches
in width of carapace).
As small immarures, both sexes
increase approximately 23% m
length with each molt. Crabs ma
ture at four years of age with a
carapace width of about 4.5 inch
es. After attaining sexual matur
ity, females increase at a rate of
approximately 1/4 to 1/5 of that
of male crabs.
Legal size crabs continue to in
crease at a rate of approximately
7/8 inch per molt.
The largest crab ever measured
was 10 7/8 inches In carapace
width.
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Coronation Ball
MOT BAND!
CROWNING OF THE QUEEN!
GRAND DRAWING!
Saturday, May 5, 1962
Tickets Now On Sale
$1 Gentlemen-Ladies Free
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Starting 9:30 P.M.
After Milliken Show