Stuart Smith reports that a Pensacola fisherman has complained to him about the crabs in the area:
Our observation from the last two weeks is the number of these sick crabs has increased while the overall catch is down more than 70 percent since mid-April. As we have reported to the national marine fishery on our daily trip tickets, every crab we have sampled this year has come from a batch that, unfortunately, went to market. The copper-colored “stains†and holes and burns in the shell have just shown up in the last week. The stains are in the shell, so you can’t scrub them off.
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