Tagged Stories: "blue crabs"

Virginia will close its winter blue crab dredge fishery season for the fourth year in a row.

A new scientific assessment of the Bay blue crab population shows that more work needs to be done to rebuild the stock.

Waterman hauled up more than 10,000 derelict "ghost pots," lost fishing nets and other assorted metal from the Chesapeake Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population is at its second-highest level since 1997.

Peeler crabs are actually just hardshell blue crabs that are showing signs of molting.

A Chesapeake Bay Stock Assessment Committee (CBSAC) report notes that blue crabs appear to be making a comeback.

The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population has risen to an estimated 658 million, a 60 percent increase from last year.

Scientists estimate that a total of 400 million blue crabs overwintered in the Bay in 2008-2009.

Watermen in Maryland and Virginia caught fewer of the Bay's female blue crabs in 2008.

NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service has awarded Maryland $2.2 million in federal fishery disaster funding.