In New Jersey, horseshoe crabs are usually found on the shores of Delaware Bay in south Jersey. Horseshoe crabs receive their name from their exoskeletal structure, which resembles a horseshoe on the shell's underside. These crabs live in shallow saltwater environments, emerging from the saltwater ...
Blue Crab:Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Florida, Louisiana Stone Crab:North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Louisiana Timing While depending on the state you can often legally catch crabs year-round, there are definitely peak seasons. For example, prime blue-crab se...
In 1988 the Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguines, was found at Townsend inlet in southern New Jersey. This species is now the most abundant intertidal crab along much of the Middle Atlantic and New England coast of the USA. Our study focused on recent changes in the relative abundance of...
MONTEREY, Calif.– The voracious appetites of sea otters in the Elkhorn Slough has helped lower the amount of erosion in the estuary, according to a study published Wednesday. Located about 100 miles south of San Francisco, theElkhorn Sloughis a seven-mile, coastal wetland that is connected to...
Habitat loss and overharvesting have affected the 475-million-year-old species in the past, but the massive growth of the pharmaceutical industry seriously threatens the species. The five corporations operating in South Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia and Maryland reportedly drained the ...
The fertilized females were transported in a car, using a cooler with ice packs and wet towels, to the NOAA James J. Howard Sandy Hook lab, New Jersey. Alive females were then measured, examined (number of legs, shell condition), and randomly placed in the Female Husbandry and Hatching Co...