Their mission: to conduct the annual blue crab winter dredge survey, a critical effort to estimate the population of Maryland’s state crustacean in the Chesapeake ... into the life cycle and ...
The increase is harming the crabbing industry in the Chesapeake Bay, which produces about 50% of the total U.S. harvest for blue crabs ... The boom-and-bust cycle makes it more difficult for ...
Maryland's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is enlisting the help of charter boat captains and commercial watermen in a ...