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Thursday, February 05, 2015

Maryland's female blue crab population 'dangerously' low, Chesapeake Bay report shows

There is good news and bad news contained within the pages of a new report about the health status of the Chesapeake Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay program, a regional partnership managed by the EPA, recently released its Bay Barometer for 2013 and 2014.

The good news -- the bay is less polluted.

The bad news -- the female blue crab population is dangerously low.

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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2015 at 4:56 PM

    Its time to pay crabbers like we do farmers to not crab for a couple of seasons.

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  2. ginnFebruary 5, 2015 at 5:16 PM

    What it's time for is to stop eating sooks.
    I was taught a long, long time ago to let them go. But, just like everything else, the GD dollar bill has become destructive of even the blue crab population.

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  3. Ron DushFebruary 5, 2015 at 5:18 PM

    CBF can take a long walk, how can you believe anything a lobbying arm of the democrats say? CBF, mpt and DPR should be kicked off the tax nipple for good. BTW,did you see the daily times article? DPR the voice of our community, HA!!! The voice of stalinist mother russky more like

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2015 at 5:52 PM

    all the automated crab picking machines use sooks because they are very uniform in size....ban the sale of sooks and the crab population will soar...

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  5. SteveFebruary 5, 2015 at 7:35 PM

    Good Lord! The CBF is just lobbying for their own interests, not ours. The money you give them goes to their own paychecks, and they offer no solutuons that work because if the ever did, they would cease to exist!

    Think about that for not only a moment, but for the next year!

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  6. SteveFebruary 5, 2015 at 7:41 PM

    To add,the top half of the Bay has all the seagrass buried under the sediment overflow from the Conowingo Dam, whose settling pond has been full and overflowing for several years, so there are no crabs to harvest from the north half of the Bay.

    Ask the CBF exactly how this was allowed to happen under their watch, not how "They" hope to fix it, because they obviously have no plan or solution.

    But just keep giving them money because of their name and their "supposed" goals.

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2015 at 8:04 PM

    SOS SAVE OUR SOOKS !!!

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2015 at 4:32 AM

    Take the watermen out of Nanticoke Harbor , mission accomplished.

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2015 at 7:43 AM

    First of all,Steve at 7:41 is right.The majority of the bays problems flow downstream from elsewhere.
    Second,if they would allow for more striped bass to be harvested,the crab population would stabilize.

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  10. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2015 at 9:34 AM

    "The Chesapeake Bay program, a regional partnership managed by the EPA..."

    That's where I stopped reading. Anything the EPA touches is poison. Same goes for the USDA. No thanks.

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  11. AnonymousFebruary 6, 2015 at 11:42 AM

    Just a thought, decades ago all we heard was bring back the rockfish. There are more rock in the bay than I have ever seen, big ones and they eat crabs for a living don't they?

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