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The male blue crab cradles his legs around the female and carries her aboutwith him for 2 or 3 days before and after mating

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The male blue crab cradles his legs around the female and carries her aboutwith him for 2 or 3 days before and after mating. At this time they are knownto watermen as doublers or buck and rider.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

Photographer

G. H. Rees BCF

Collection

Historic Fisheries