2000 - 2000 Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) 2000 Hastings Shingle Bank Crab Depletion Study

The feasibility of using catch depletion methodologies as a way of assessing edible crab ( Cancer pagurus ) stocks was investigated on the Hastings Shingle Bank commercial crabbing ground, situated in the eastern English Channel between 20 and 32 km offshore, centred around position 50 ... 48'N. 00 ... 38'E.