Media outlets report the 2016 Bay Blue Crab Advisory Report found the overall population of blue crabs in the bay has grown from 411 million in 2015 to 533 million this year.
With about 4,480 square miles of Bay and tribal tributaries, that means there are about 118,973 crabs per square mile of the Chesapeake Bay.
To put that in perspective, using a rough measurement of 5 dozen (60) crabs per bushel, that would be about 1,983 bushels per square mile, and 8.9 million bushels total.
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alot of females in that basket! keep that up, and numbers will decrease quickle!
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ReplyDelete5:02 That is how they do it at the pick houses. They buy the females cheap and cook them in huge batches like you see there.
ReplyDeleteIf you cut out the female crab catch it will bankrupt thousands of Maryland watermen over night. Virginia allows watermen to even keep females carrying eggs. Maryland will lose money and Virginia will get it.