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Sponge crab. A female blue crab with a mass of eggs attached beneath herabdomen, where she carries them until they hatch. The so-called sponge maycontain up to 2 million eggs.
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection
Photographer
G. B. Talbot BCF
Collection
Historic Fisheries