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Influence of cooking, refrigeration, and freezing on size of blue swimmer crabs, Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sumpton, W. D. (2004) Influence of cooking, refrigeration, and freezing on size of blue swimmer crabs, Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, 1758). Crustaceana, 77 . pp. 1101-1105.

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Article URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20107417

Abstract

Shrinkage of crustaceans as a result of cooking and processing is an enforcement problem for fisheries management agencies throughout the world when size is regulated. Here we show that the carapace of blue swimmer crabs, Portunus pelagicus shrinks as a result of various cooking and processing practices, however, this shrinkage is marginal. There is only a 5% chance that a crab that was 15 cm (current minimum legal size) when first caught would decrease by more than 0.9 mm as a result of common cooking and processing practices. Fisheries compliance agencies should, therefore, build in a small degree of measurement tolerance (1 mm) in their enforcement of the size regulations for this species.

Item Type:Article
Business groups:Animal Science
Keywords:carapace length; rock lobster
Subjects:Aquaculture and Fisheries > Fisheries > Fishery processing
Aquaculture and Fisheries > Fisheries > Packing, transportation and storage
Aquaculture and Fisheries > Fisheries > Shellfish fisheries
Live Archive:29 Jan 2018 23:54
Last Modified:03 Sep 2021 16:51

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