Abstract
organic material. This material may have been a mixture of sediment and semidigested tissue or detritus. The ingestion of sediment, detritus and associated bacteria has been demonstrated to be important to the nutrition of some crusta ceans (Fenchel & Jorgensen, 1977; Moriarty, 1976; Rieper, 1978). Marukawa (1933) suggests that the megalopa of king crab feed on detritus and bryozoans in the Bering Sea. In Cook Inlet, post-larval king crab ingest substantial quan tities of detritus and some bryozoans, but the crab are also capable of capturing ostracods and harpacticoid copepods. The ability of post-larval king crab to utilize detritus or bacteria as food needs to be investigated. Acknowledgements. ? This study was supported under contract # 03-5-022-56 between the University of Alaska and NOAA, Department of Commerce through the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program to which funds were provided by the Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior. This work is Contribution No. 392 from the Institute of Marine Science, University of Alaska. Specimens were collected by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Marine/Coastal Habitat Management Group.
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