Chesapeake Bay blue crab populations fell again, hitting the second-lowest number since Virginia and Maryland marine scientists began counting in 1990, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources said.
The annual winter sampling the department and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences conduct yielded an estimate that blue crab numbers in the bay fell to 238 million from last year’s 317 million.
That’s the lowest number since 2020. It marks the fifth year in a row that the crab population is below averages tallied since 1990.
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