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  dungness-crab.jpg - Dungeness crab taken from a Prince of Wales Island estuary. Chuck, a resident of POW, offered to take us with him to check his crab pots. We accepted his generous offer and had a good time seeing parts of POW we would never have been able to discover without him. Chuck must have checked more than half a dozen crab pots and each had a crab in it. We learned the Dungeness crab inhabits eel-grass beds and muddy to sandy bottoms in low intertidal areas to depths in excess of 600 ft and are found from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to south of San Francisco. The Dungeness crab has a broad, oval body covered by a hard shell, four pairs of walking legs and a pair of claws. This crab can be distinguished from other crabs, such as King, by its smaller and shorter legs and a lack of spines on the top side of its shell. Chuck had good harvest and, following the Tlingit Indian tradition, started making a mental list of who he was going to share his bounty with back in Coffman Cove.  
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Dungeness crab taken from a Prince of Wales Island estuary. Chuck, a resident of POW, offered to take us with him to check his crab pots. We accepted his generous offer and had a good time seeing parts of POW we would never have been able to discover without him. Chuck must have checked more than half a dozen crab pots and each had a crab in it. We learned the Dungeness crab inhabits eel-grass beds and muddy to sandy bottoms in low intertidal areas to depths in excess of 600 ft and are found from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to south of San Francisco. The Dungeness crab has a broad, oval body covered by a hard shell, four pairs of walking legs and a pair of claws. This crab can be distinguished from other crabs, such as King, by its smaller and shorter legs and a lack of spines on the top side of its shell. Chuck had good harvest and, following the Tlingit Indian tradition, started making a mental list of who he was going to share his bounty with back in Coffman Cove.
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