Blue Crab Tagged in Maryland Turns Up in Florida Two Years Later
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [UPI News] By Ben Hooper - January 3, 2018
A Florida fisherman's catch surprised scientists when the blue crab was found to be bearing a tag from researchers in Maryland.
Thomas Cochran of TJE Seafood said he was shocked when he was emptying a crab trap in the Crystal River and discovered it contained a blue crab bearing a tag from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the Chesapeake Bay.
Cochran used a number listed on the tag to contact researchers, and ...
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