Part 2 of WTOP’s Claws and Effect series looks at the competition the Chesapeake Bay blue crab is facing under the water. This week, WTOP takes you from…
Read more Claws and Effect: Who’s to blame for the blue crabs’ disappearance? – WTOP NewsOregon has extended rules restricting the number of crab traps in the water and how deep they can drop in the late-season months when humpback whales are more…
Read more Oregon extends crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in trap ropesOregon has extended rules restricting the number of crab traps in the water and how deep they can drop in the late-season months when humpback whales are more…
Read more Oregon extends crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in trap ropesPORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital medicines…
Read more Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for foodPORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital medicines…
Read more Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for foodNORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. government is launching a new program to combat the scourge of abandoned crab and lobster traps, which can dilute harvests and kill other…
Read more New federal program targets abandoned crab, lobster trapsATCHAFALAYA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, La. — Stacks of valves, networks of pipes and hulking, two-story-tall tanks litter parts of the swampy landscape of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, rusting relics…
Read more State and US officials tout spending to plug ‘orphan wells’HOUSTON — Fourteen years after Hurricane Ike ripped through thousands of homes and businesses near Galveston, Texas — but mostly spared the region’s oil refineries and chemical plants…
Read more House advances giant Texas storm surge project in water bill
