In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was ...
By Katherine Hafner/WHRO Each summer for nearly four decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center ...
Smithsonian researchers discovered who eats the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay — it’s not people, or even fish, ...
Researchers have published a nearly 40-year study documenting just how prevalent cannibalism is in the Chesapeake Bay’s blue ...
Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, two populations are under threat: the iconic blue crab and the crabbers whose livelihoods have depended on this fishery for hundreds of years. This ...
Blue crab populations in the Chesapeake Bay have taken a sizable hit in 2025, marking a need for more cautious harvest regulations, some environmentalists say. Each winter, the Maryland Department of ...
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Rare intersex crab found with male and female traits, researchers say
A blue crab pulled from Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay waters in 2005 displayed something biologists almost never see: one claw ...
The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say that doesn't necessarily mean crabs will cost you more this summer. A survey by the ...
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