Maryland to Reduce Catch Limits on Female Crabs by 20-40%
After a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) survey found the Chesapeake Bay crab population to be just 300 million, its lowest in over five years and a nearly two-thirds decline over the previous year, DNR announced that it will Reduce Catch Limits on Female Crabs by 20-40%. And Maryland’s nearly 5,200 licensed crabbers are not happy. This unpopular decision is necessary in order to ensure the crab population rebounds in 2014, given the poor reproduction in 2012 and with juvenile crabs plummeting 80 percent.
Maryland and Virginia took similar steps five years ago, when the crab population was in a similar decline.
“We all want a sustainable fishery,” said Gibby Dean, president of the Chesapeake Bay Commercial Fishermen’s Association. “It’s just very complicated.”
Crabbing limits are under consideration as well in Virginia and on the Potomac River.
“We need to turn this thing around,” added Bill Goldsborough, fisheries director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
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