Blue Crab Tags (IMAGE)

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Blue Crab Tags

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To estimate recreational versus commercial crabbing, biologists outfitted crabs with these pink tags, offering a reward to crabbers who found them and reported the catch.

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Kim Richie, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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