It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the number one killer of the crustaceans that congregate in mid-salinity waters ...
Smithsonian researchers discovered who eats the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay — it’s not people, or even fish, ...
Researchers used 37 years of data to study predation on blue crabs in Chesapeake Bay. They discovered the animals are eating ...