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Claws and Effect: Who’s to blame for the blue crabs’ disappearance? – WTOP News
[ad_1] Part 2 of WTOP’s Claws and Effect series looks at the competition the Chesapeake Bay blue crab is facing under the water. This…
Tag: Crabs
Finance
Oregon extends crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in trap ropes
[ad_1] Oregon has extended rules restricting the number of crab traps in the water and how deep they can drop in the late-season months…
Breaking News
Oregon extends crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in trap ropes
[ad_1] Oregon has extended rules restricting the number of crab traps in the water and how deep they can drop in the late-season months…
Finance
Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food
[ad_1] PORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for…
US News
Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food
[ad_1] PORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for…
Technology
New federal program targets abandoned crab, lobster traps
[ad_1] NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can…
Finance
State and US officials tout spending to plug ‘orphan wells’
[ad_1] ATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La. — Stacks of valves, networks of pipes and hulking, two-story-tall tanks litter parts of the swampy landscape of…
Finance
House advances giant Texas storm surge project in water bill
[ad_1] HOUSTON — Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas — but mostly spared the region’s…