Information includes results of surveys, fishery data and results of biological research.
This data base serves research and modeling efforts concerning population dynamics, fishery management and ecology. A wider scope of users is anticipated when our data bases become available on internet. The EBS crab program resided in the Seattle Laboratory during the 1950's and was later transferred to the Auke Bay Laboratory. In 1972 the program was transferred to the Kodiak Laboratory. Data series standardized from 1975 onward and there are some computerized series that extend back to 1968.