Chesapeake Bay Scientists Concerned by Low Numbers of Young Female Blue Crabs
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [WVTF] By Pamela D'Angelo- June 23, 2017
Those Chesapeake Bay blue crabs spread across your picnic table or served up as crab cakes are the result of a hard working waterman. What you may not know, it's also because of science. State fisheries managers closely monitor the population and adjust harvests throughout season.
Baby female blue crabs mean future crabs on your plate. That's why fisheries managers closely guard that population. So, while the number of adult female crabs increased this year by a whopping 31 percent, managers like Virginia's fisheries chief Rob O'Reilly, were troubled by...
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