Posted by John in La on July 22, 2017 at 14:57:07 from (96.33.130.162):
In Reply to: Re: Pickers Needed posted by Texasmark1 on July 22, 2017 at 12:23:08:
"commercial crabbers kept females. To us it was like shooting doe deer"
That may be fixing to change. They are looking for ways to stop over fishing. We had our first ever fishing ban on blue crabs this year. More research is needed to find what works best.
But if you understand the life cycle of a blue crab they do have limits. A female crab reaches maturity and mates one time. From this one mating she can have up to 6 or 7 broods in one year; 18 or so over her life time. The state limits crab taken by commercial fishermen to at least 5 inches. By the time the female reaches 5 inches she has most likely reached maturity and had several broods.
Then you have to consider the dance the WL&F plays with parasites. Female blue crabs get a worm that feeds on her egg sack and lives in her gills when she does not have a egg sack. The Chesapeake bay area is over whelmed with this worm. One of the reasons for their reduced crab population.
So by letting the female to reach maturity she spawns replacing the stock. They do this with the 5 inch minimum size. But also taking mature females they keep the parasite worm in check.
So it is not like shooting a doe deer when you know the whole story.
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