Report of the Study Group on the Biology and Life History of Crabs (SGCRAB)

The ICES Study Group on the Biology and Life History of Crabs (SGCRAB) worked by correspondence in 2006 to consider Terms of Reference covering the compilation of basic fisheries data for crab stocks, standardisation of methods for analysis of fisheries data, crab stock structure, environmental effects including disease on crabs, the interaction between net/dredge fisheries and other anthropogenic activities and crab stocks, the effects of fishing, and methods for estimating recruitment in crab stocks.