Abundance and Spatial Distribution of Brown Crab (Cancer pagurus) from Fishery-Independent Dredge and Trawl surveys in the North Sea

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the MSS staff who participated in the east coast dredge surveys and IBTS quarter 3 surveys for the data sampling work that has been used in this study. Thanks to Andrzej Jaworski for providing advice on the use of geostatistical methods. Finally, would also like to thank the editor and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. Funding This study was funded by the Marine Collaboration Research Forum (MarCRF), with Marine Scotland Science and the University of Aberdeen.