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Yup'ik RavenMarshall Cultural Atlas

This collection of student work is from Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available for educational use only.

 

 

 

 

The King Crab
Paralithodes camtschatica
Yuale'rsaq

 

King crabs live the northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea near the United States, Japan and the Russia. They are also an important fishery in these areas.

King crabs aren't true crabs. Fleshy abdomens of king crabs are compressed under their bodies and are covered by a series of protective plates. The abdomen of the female crab is fan-shaped and functions as a brood chamber for fertilized eggs. The legs of a King crab are jointed to fold behind the body instead of being jointed forward like the legs of true crabs. The legs and carapace are spiny and provide protection from fish that prey on them. They may grow as large as twenty-four pounds in fifteen years. The commercially caught males are only about seven pounds and are eight or nine years old. They are usually three feet long with their legs extended.

King crabs display an annual migration pattern. In late winter they move from the outer continental shelf to water depths of less than 40 fathoms where females molt and are mated. These mating grounds may be along the shore or on submerged offshore banks. Crabs move to deeper water following mating and feed throughout the summer, fall and early winter months.

Major fisheries for these crabs are centered at lower Cook Inlet, Kodiak Island, Unimak Pass area, Adak and Atka islands and the eastern Bering sea north of the Alaska Peninsula. Minor fisheries are in Southeastern Alaska and the Shumagin Islands. The crabs are caught with baited pots which are six or seven feet square, three feet high and weigh 500- 700 pounds each. The pots are baited with chopped herring which is usually replaced every two or three days. The King crab fishery started in the early 1950's. The most king crab ever caught was in 1966 when the fisheries caught 159 million pounds.

 

Charlotte Alstrom

Yuale'rsaq

 

King Or Chinook salmon

- Lois Moore

Coho or Silver Salmon

- Jonathan Boots

The Chum Salmon

- Willie Paul Fitka

Pink or Humpback Salmon

- Tatiana Sergie

Sockeye or Red Salmon

- Jack George

Burbot

- Lois Moore

Northern Pike

- Mary June Tinker

The Sheefish in Alaska

- Tatiana Sergie

Whitefish

- Jackie Paul George

Pacific Herring

- Cheryl Hunter

The Arctic Grayling

- Rose Lynn Fitka

The Dungeness Crab

- Rose Lynn Fitka

Rainbow Trout

- Willie Paul Fitka

Dolly Varden

- Cheryl Hunter

The Arctic Char

- Charlotte Alstrom

Lake Trout

- Jonathan Boots

The King Crab

- Charlotte Alstrom

 

Fishy Research Student Whoppers Parent Whoppers Elder Whoppers
Staff Whoppers Adventures Under the Sea Global Warming The Crystal Ball--Imagining how it will be

 

Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000
Summer Time Tails 1992 Summertime Tails II 1993 Summertime Tails III
Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997
Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 Signs of the Times November 1996 Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations
Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out, the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 Yupik Gourmet - A Book of Recipes  
M&M Monthly    
Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 Happy Easter! March/April 1998 Merry Christmas December Edition 1997
Happy Valentine’s Day! February Edition 1998 Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997
Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon Bay Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981
The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska Poems of Hooper Bay Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students)
Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 People in Our Community
Buildings and Personalities of Marshall Marshall Village PROFILE Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A Glimpse of the Past’
Raven’s Stories Spring 1995 Bird Stories from Scammon Bay The Sea Around Us
Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the Weather Spring 1996 Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November, 1998 Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993
Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming and the future November, 1997 Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring, 1992

 

 
 

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