The Shrinking Catch
The harvest of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River has fallen significantly since the early 1990s, government records indicate. These numbers show the combined harvest, in pounds, in select years:
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1990:
105,820,074
2000:
51,360,415
2007:
44,179,695
Source: Maryland, Virginia state governments


