Sentence examples for crab harvest from inspiring English sources

But with the lowest crab harvest in almost 30 years, that industry is in trouble.

The plan calls for crab harvest levels to be regularly adjusted in response to data on red knot and horseshoe crab populations.

This spring Delaware and New Jersey officials agreed to cut the horseshoe crab harvest in half -- to 150,000 crabs per state.

Biologists say the state's 2007 crab harvest was 21.8 million pounds, well below the yearly average of 48 million pounds over a 60-year period beginning in 1945.

Since then, the king crab harvest has remained at 20 million pounds a year, or less, and the price has more than doubled.

Thirteen states have already taken steps at the commission's urging to limit the crab harvest in an attempt to protect the red knot, an imperiled shorebird that relies on the eggs of horseshoe crabs in places like Cape May and Delaware Bay to refuel during its migration from southern Argentina to breeding grounds in Arctic Canada each spring.

New Jersey has moved to protect both species, imposing a ban on horseshoe crab harvesting a few years ago, and in February, officially listing the red knot as endangered.

The Web site of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has a ton of local information on clamming and crab harvesting, how and where to do it.

The number of horseshoe crabs has stabilized in the Delaware Bay, but despite a moratorium imposed by New Jersey on crab harvesting by the bait industry, their population does not appear to be increasing.

Lawmakers are trying to ban horseshoe crab harvesting along New Jersey shores after biologists said the birds face extinction if they cannot find enough crab eggs on which to feed during their spring migration from Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America, to the Canadian Arctic.

California has now warned against crab harvesting because the warmer coastal waters stimulate the growth of toxin producing algae.