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Description
58 bushels of green crabs (Carcinus maenus) trapped in three days in town effort to reduce crab population. These crabs were an invasive species andwere decimating local shell fisheries. (Image credit: NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection)
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection
Display Date
1938 circa
Location
Massachusetts, Ipswich
Collection
Historic Fisheries