Tagging of brown crabs leads to new discoveries
Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 06:30
in Biology & Nature
A study involving local fishermen has been shedding new light on the lives of brown crabs in the Orkney Islands. Researchers from Heriot-Watt's International Centre for Island Technology (ICIT) have been tagging brown crabs and have found that some females of the species travel more than 100 miles in their lives.