Internal Condition of a Diminishing Blue Crab Population (Callinectes sapidus)

Abundance of the blue crab,Callinectes sapidus, in Rhode Island estuaries has decreased during the last 30 years. A commercial fishery once existed in areas where the blue crab is no longer found.

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