Crab Links

• Research

• The Spatial Dynamics of Blue Crab in Chesapeake Bay (Maryland Sea Grant, 2000)
• Potential Products From Crab Shells (Maryland Sea Grant, 1996)
• Crab Research Reprints (Maryland Sea Grant)
• Blue Crab Advanced Research Consortium (Center of Marine Biotechnology, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute)
• Blue Crab Scientific and Technical Research Reports (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)

• Basic Facts (more lay oriented, less scientific)

• The Maryland Blue Crab (University of Maryland Eastern Shore)
• Blue Crabs (Chesapeake Bay Program)
• Blue Crab General Information (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)
• Blue Crab (National Aquarium)
• Maryland State Crustacean – Blue Crab (Maryland Sate Government)
• Blue Crab Archives

• Lesson Plans (grades 10-12)

• Blue Crab Education Page (Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Virginia Sea Grant)

• Crab Recipes

• Blue Crab Archives Recipes

• Management, Regulations and Policy

• Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Assessment 2005
• Fishery Management Plans (Maryland Department of Natural Resources)
• Virginia Commercial & Recreational Regulations (Virginia Institute of Marine Science)

• Chesapeake Bay Agreement

• Chesapeake 2000 (Chesapeake Bay Program)

• Maryland Sea Grant Extension Briefs

• Controlling Listeria in Crab Processing Plants

• Maryland Sea Grant Articles

Chesapeake Quarterly

• How are Crabs Doing, Really? (Volume 5, Number 4)

• Desperately Seeking Seafood: Increasing Demand, Declining Resources (April, 1994)
• The Blue Crab in Winter (February-March, 1994)
• The Battle over Blue Crabs: Capping the Last Great Fishery (February-March, 1994)
• Changes in Regulations: Recent and Proposed (February-March, 1994)
• Bay Commission Asks: Are Blue Crab Stocks Stressed? (Summer, 1995)
• Multispecies Management in the Chesapeake Bay – A Far Future? (September-October, 1995)
• Blue Crabs: The Biology of Abundance (May-June, 1996)
• Counting Crabs (May-June, 1996)
• The Summer of '96: Maryland Blue Crab Regulations (May-June, 1996)
• Banking on Blue Crabs (September-October, 1997)
• Treasure From Trash: Is There Profit In Crab Waste? (March-April, 1997)
• The Bottomline on Blue Crabs: Setting Thresholds for the Last Great Fishery (September-December 2000)
• The Fluctuating Blue Crab Fishery (September-December 2000)
• Arriving at a Threshold (September-December 2000)
• Tracking the Blue Crab Baywide (September-December 2000)
• The Role of the Recreational Crabber (September-December 2000)
• Sanctuary in the Lower Bay (September-December 2000)
• Blue Crab Information on the Web (September-December 2000)