Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Survey Shows Strong Growth
by TBC Press on 05/08/19Governor Larry Hogan, chairman of the Chesapeake Executive Council, recently announced that the results of the 2019 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey showed that the Bay-wide blue crab population increased 60 percent from last year, to an estimated total population of 594 million crabs. The rise in adult abundance of blue crabs was higher than anticipated given a poor influx of juveniles in 2017 and 2018. This is a sign that... READ MORE
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