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Va., Md., in. spat over crabbing in Chesapeake

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Virginia Department of Environmental Quality awarded a $3.2 million grant to the Town of Tangier to keep fuel on the Island. Larry Chowning photo.

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Tangier Island awarded $2.3 million grant for fuel storage

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Blue crab. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Crabbing regulations bill sinks in S.C. Statehouse

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The Jaqueline Alice was built in 2002, and the boat that helped Jeremy Bonniville learned the craft of fiberglass boatbuilding. Bonniville works the boat in Virginia gillnet, crab pot, and oyster fisheries. Larry Chowning photo.

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Wooden deadrise tradition lives on in fiberglass

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Controlling illegal and unregulated fishing is a big part of the push to make seafood traceable from harvest to plate. Emydex has systems to track tuna through the international markets. Emydex photo.

Software enables tracing seafood from catch to sale

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SCDNR and state representatives work on a bill to sustain the blue crab population within South Carolina. Photo by Marco Lissoni on Shutterstock.

Efforts to save blue crabs underway in South Carolina

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Blue crabs for sale at the fish market. Callinectes sapidus or Atlantic blue crab or Chesapeake blue crab. Photo by Marco Lissoni on Shutterstock

S.C., a state lacking harvest limits, seeks to save blue crabs

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Photo by Gene Gallin on Unsplash

Uncertain future facing N.C. fishermen

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Blue crabs. Courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Invasive blue land crabs sighted in Georgia, state warns

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Virginia is going to study bringing back the state's crab dredge fishery that has been closed since 2008. Larry Chowning photo.

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Virginia reconsiders winter crab dredge fishery, closed since 2008

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Va. extends blue crab harvest season

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