Support buoys crab research.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: Inside Alaska Business

Biologists in Juneau working to raise hatchery king crab landed $460,000 in federal funds and Alaska industry support. Researchers at the Alaska King Crab Research, Rehabilitation and Biology program will use the funds to study how juvenile king crab cope with predators, find food and interact with other marine organisms, including other crab. Their work could eventually help rebuild collapsed king crab stocks in parts of Alaska. The group consists of university and federal scientists, fishermen, seafood businesses, coastal communities and Alaska Native groups. These parties united in 2006 to find ways to help Kodiak Island red king crab and blue king crab in the Pribilof Islands recover. AKCRRAB scientists working at the Alutiiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery in Seward have...