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Alaska fishers fear another bleak season as crab populations dwindle in warming waters
KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Gabriel Prout worked four seasons on his father's crab boat, the Silver Spray, before joining his two brothers in 2020 to buy a half-interest plus access rights for a snow crab fishery that's typically the largest and richest in the Bering Sea. Then in 2021, disaster: an...
If you can't beat them, eat them: Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer
ORBETELLO, Italy (AP) — Italians are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs with an attitude borne of centuries of culinary making do: If you can’t beat them, eat them. Fishermen, lobbying groups and environmentalists have sounded the alarm about the risks from a summer...
Editorial Roundup: New England
Barre-Montpelier Times-Argus. August 16, 2023. Editorial: Leading for the future On Tuesday, about 500 Vermonters came together for a discussion about tomorrow. The summit, hosted by the Vermont Council on Rural Development, covered a lot of territory. ...
Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
Post and Courier. August 8, 2023. Editorial: SC should drop challenge to ban on Cape Romain horseshoe crab harvesting The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made the right decision to prohibit horseshoe crab harvesting in its Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, and we...
Harvest of horseshoe crabs, needed for blue blood, stopped during spawning season in national refuge
The federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a national wildlife refuge during the spawning season to try to give the animal a chance to reproduce. Fishermen harvest horseshoe crabs so the animals can be used as bait and so their blood...
Oregon extends crab fishing restrictions to protect whales from getting caught in trap ropes
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has extended rules restricting the state's lucrative Dungeness crab fishery in order to protect humpback whales from becoming entangled in ropes attached to crab traps, the state's fish and wildlife department has announced. Humpbacks, which migrate off...
Oregon crabbers and environmentalists are at odds as a commission votes on rules to protect whales
In the wheelhouse of a crab boat named Heidi Sue, Mike Pettis watched the gray whale surface and shoot water through its blowhole. Tangled around its tail was a polypropylene rope used to pull up crab traps. It took two men with serrated knives 40 minutes to free the whale, which...
Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is needed for medicine, but a declining bird relies on crabs to eat
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item for fishing bait and medical research. Its blue blood is harvested for medical...
