Regulations issued this week, to be in effect starting in July, will limit commercial watermen to at most 15 bushels a day of male crabs in August and September.
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“We’re trying to take an approach that ensures our abundance remains at a sustainable level,” said Genine McClair, director of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources’ blue crab fishery management program. Scientists are scheduled to gather in the fall for a workshop organized by the federal Chesapeake Bay Program to discuss what environmental factors may be having the biggest impact on blue crab survival.
But harvest restrictions are the main tool the state natural resources agency can use to steward the blue crab population because its health depends largely on fluctuations in nature. Favorable weather and winds are needed to ensure crabs can successfully spawn, typically once or twice in mid- and late summer, and that the newest generations survive.
The hope is that the new restrictions will at least stop the downward trend in crab abundance, if not help the species rebound significantly. Commercial harvest of female crabs will be limited to between 9 and 17 bushels a day in July and August and 17 to 32 bushels in September and October, depending on the type of license a waterman holds. A bushel contains roughly five to seven dozen crabs, depending on their size.
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