Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.
It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the ...
In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was ...
Smithsonian study finds juvenile crabs rely on shrinking shallow-water habitats to escape cannibalism by adults ...
By Katherine Hafner/WHRO Each summer for nearly four decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have tethered some baby blue crabs along a Chesapeake Bay tributary. Then they ...
Egg-eating worms living on Chesapeake Bay blue crabs may hold the key to smarter fishery management. Once thought to be a threat, these parasites actually serve as natural biomarkers that reveal when ...
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