Cracking the Blue Crab's Secrets; Baltimore Lab Raising Hopes for the Dwindling Symbol of the Chesapeake

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 27, 2001| Author: Anita Huslin | Copyright information

If there is a silver lining to the downward spiral of the blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay, it might very well be found in a subterranean laboratory in the heart of Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Here, in the basement of the Center of Marine Biotechnology, researchers from the University of Maryland's Biotechnology Institute and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center are raising a new generation of Callinectes sapidus, spawned by a single female blue crab captured last fall...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Drop in Florida Blue Crabs Confounds Experts.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News ; By Rich McKay, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 3--MOSQUITO LAGOON, Fla.--A sunburned and unshaven John J.B. Bollman speared ... OrlandoSentinel.com (c) 2003. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News.
'Inexhaustible' Chesapeake Bay blue crabs are on the decline. (Originated from Newport News Daily Press)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ; ABOARD FISH HAWK, ON THE YORK RIVER, Va. _ Three 20-something Virginia Institute of Marine Science workers stand around an elevated table and begin their somewhat unusual, slightly dangerous task: sort fish, count fish, measure fish, throw fish overboard. The danger comes from the pinching claws of
CRABS ON THE DECLINE: Juvenile populations of blue crab are in a down cycle.
Sun Herald (Biloxi, MS) ; ... seen the last few years due to erosion and hurricanes. The good news? The blue crab is an estuary animal and population numbers in ... Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.c
PROTECTION AHEAD? BAY BLUE CRABS IMPERILED THE NUMBER OF ADULT FEMALES HAVE DROPPED SHARPLY.(LOCAL)(Editorial)
The Virginian Pilot ; ... verge of acting to assure strong blue crab stocks. That's good news. The blue crab population ever fluctuates mysteriously. But the ... blue crab is imperiled. At an April 27 public hearing in Newport News, the commission will attempt to assess the severity of the peril ...
Blue crabs find green invaders delicious
Capital (Annapolis) ; The Chesapeake Bay has a long list of invaders that can't be turned back without significant human effort, including mute swans, snakeheads, nutria and phragmites. But at least one of the nonnative species is being bounced from the bay by a homegrown carnivore. Blue crabs have developed a taste for