Research Article

Evaluation of Morphological and Quality Parameters in Adult Male Red King Crabs (Paralithodes camtschaticus) Raised to Commercial Weight from Juveniles

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Plots illustrating the values (mean ± standard deviation, SD) of raw cluster yield (CYraw) (a), cooked cluster yield (CYcooked) (b), cooked leg meat moisture (c), whiteness index (WI) (d), instrumental hardness (e), and chewiness (f) in red king crabs obtained from wild specimens (control) and specimens kept for 23 months in live holding (LH) at ambient seawater temperature (AST) and elevated seawater temperature (AST-E) either without (NS) or with (WS) accessibility to sand. Long horizontal lines with error bars indicate group (wild/AST/AST-E) means and SD, whereas short dotted and dashed lines indicate, respectively, the NS and WS subgroup means within a LH temperature. Significantly () different mean values between the groups wild/AST/AST-E are indicated with different lowercase letters.
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