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How pea crabs affect farmed mussels

How pea crabs affect farmed mussels diagram

The effect of pea crab infection on mussel size. This image shows some of the key findings from Oliver Trottier’s large-scale study of pea crab infection on a mussel farm in Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.

Image of mussel measured by calliper courtesy of Elsevier, Copyright © 2012.
Impact of the parasitic pea crab Pinnotheres novaezelandiae on aquacultured New Zealand green-lipped mussels, Perna canaliculus. Trottier O, Walker D, Jeffs AG. Aquaculture 2012;344–346, 23–28.

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