Crab had been tagged by scientists
Crab traveled from Chesapeake Bay to gulf over several years
Fisherman working with scientists to return crab
It’s certainly not something Thomas Cochran with TJE Seafood expected to find while taking in his normal harvest from King's Bay.
"I was looking around like, is this a joke or is this something that's all over or is this one of a kind?” he explained.
He noticed the pink tag on the crab and called the number listed. Turns out the crab had been tagged by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the Chesapeake Bay, and over the course of several years made his way into the gulf and then into King's Bay.
A scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center told us this is the furthest a blue crab has traveled since they started tagging them.
"We've tagged a number of crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. Some of them get captured as far south as North Carolina," Robert Aguilar, a biologist at the center, said.
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Don't discount the power of USPS, UPS, FEDEX and remorseful tourists. ;]
A crab regularly sheds its shell, so I don't understand the tag. Did he get himself dressed after shedding each time and put his little tag back on?
Down near tampa/st. Pete area. WOW.
That is fake news.. I call bullcrap!
Blue Crabs loose their shells several times a year it's simply not possible!
Actually do some research....the story is true.....
Actually your statement isn’t correct....do some research know nothing warmer water....the Gulf of Mexico means they don’t shed their shells as often....do alittle research before you look dumb....
In this area during the warmer months the crap will shed on every moon until it is totally mature and has become an adult . When it is almost grown to absolute adult size it will not shed or will only shed it's shell very few times if any . The Gulf of Mexico has nothing to do with the amount of sheds, sheds are strictly related to water temperature the moon and the reaching of adult size.
It's fake.. deal with it..
You guys are on the Shore yet you still cant even get the basic biology of the blue crab right. More evidence of why you are so easily duped. Scientists along the coast have long been tagging ADULT crabs due to thier infrequent molts.
7:17 But we is smarter then them university edukated folks. That is why this area is so advandeced.
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