Surveys are projecting a solid harvest of around four million pounds for Delaware's most valuable fishery. DNREC's Rich Wong says that's based on the number of juvenile crabs coming into the bay's population — what biologists call recruitment.
"Typically it's been below average" in the past 10 to 15 years, Wong says. "This year is right at the long-term average — it's around a 40-year average — which is good, relatively speaking, for over the past 15 years or so."
He says the 2016 catch could be close to their best year recently, 2012, when Delaware Bay offered up 4.5 million pounds of blue crab.
But it doesn't necessarily indicate a trend:
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