Blue crab education project funded by Virginia Sea Grant

From: Sea Technology | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

It's considered a delicacy around this part of the Eastern Seaboard at least. And blue crab fisheries tap into that multimillion-dollar market. Now a project to bring scientific information about the tasty critters to the public has started with two years of funding from the Virginia Sea Grant College Program.

A project to bring scientific information about blue crabs to the public has begun with two years of funding from the Virginia Sea Grant College Program. The project's main objective will be to inform educators, resource managers, commercial fishers, and the public about the blue ...

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