Save The Shellfish

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Peyton Silver Section 61
Save The Shellfish!
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Problem 1
What Has Happened In The Past?
These are buckets of crabs that have already been
caught from the Chesapeake Bay. The buckets are
so full you can tell people over crab.

• People over crabbing.
• People polluting the bay from cars, oils trash,
  etc.
• No crab laws for the amount of crabs you could
  catch from the bay.
• No one did anything about making a law

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Too many crabs are going from the bay to being
cooked and eaten.

• Blue crab s declining
• Constant harvest pressure on species and the loss
  of S.A.V.
• Over crabbing
• SAV gets pulled for stuff, but crabs need it so
  the more pulled, the less homes for crabs
• Bass and people eat crabs
• Crabs reduced catches by commercial and
  recreational crabbers
• Algae dies, decomposition process uses oxygen in
  the water to a point where it cant reach aquatic
  life to survive

Problem 2
What Is Happening Now ?
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Data
This is a blue crab.

• Data shows how many pounds (in millions) of
  crabs from the Chesapeake Bay are harvested each
  year by Maryland, Potomac, and Virginia
• It shows that the number decreases because the
  more over crabbing the less crabs to catch

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Conclusions

• Blue crabs need help
• Over the past 30 years there has been a 26
  decrease in the of crabs
• Too many crabs and the things that crabs need
  are being taken out of the bay
• Harvest and pollution is killing lots of crabs

Blue Crab Abdomens
Catch less crabs!!
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Solutions / Recommendations

• We need to focus on the areas of
• Fishery management planning
• Reduced harvest pressure
• Bay grass restoration
• Reducing nutrient pollution to improve the
  levels of dissolved oxygen in the summer

More crabs need homes like these and we can help.
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Personal Action Plan

• When I order crabs I will only order the number
  of crabs I can eat
• Join a program to help crabs survive
• Adopt a crab and make sure that crab is healthy
  and happy
• Go on strike against the number of crabs being
  eaten

This is WAY too many crabs.
This looks MUCH better.
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Don't Be Crabby! Save The Crabs!
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Bibliograghy
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Crab, retrieved October 22, 2007 from the World
Wide Web http//www.chesapeakebay.net/blue_crab.
htm Blue Crab, retrieved October 22, 2007 from
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rabs26gbv3D226svnum3D1026um3D126hl3Den26r
ls3DHPIA,HPIA2006-34,HPIAen26sa3DX Blue
Crab, retrieved October 22, 2007 from the World
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491aqouZTAnTu Blue Crab, retrieved September
18, 2007 from the World Wide Web
http//www.chesapeakebay.net/baybio.htm Blue
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World Wide Web http//www.dnr.state.md.us/fisher
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