Good News on Crabs

Shortly before DNR's Jim Uphoff came to present to our Resources class this past spring, the results of the crab population survey came out showing a big increase in the past year. Restrictions on harvesting females and eliminating winter harvesting were successful in helping the crabs bounce back from some dangerously low levels, including a record low in 2007.

Now it turns out that the high population estimate has produced a high harvest. Hooray! An abundance of crabs. Here is a picture of my niece, who with her family visited Maryland from my hometown Reno, Nevada this past August. You can see her contribution to this year's impressive harvest.