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58 bushels of green crabs (Carcinus maenus) trapped in three days in town effort to reduce crab population

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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.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Fisheries Collection

Display Date

1938 circa

Location

Massachusetts, Ipswich

Collection

Historic Fisheries