VaNews: Blue Crab Decline in the Chesapeake Bay

RADIO IQ | By Fred Echols

Published December 1, 2014 at 7:56 AM EST

As the blue crab harvest in the Chesapeake Bay continues to decline there's still uncertainty over the causes and disagreement about what should be done.

Those stories have been among the most read over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project's VaNews link.

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