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Summer brings crab feasts--and concerns for Chesapeake blue crabs
![blue crab with the text photo gallery](/news/mmg/media/images/bluecrab_slide_f_f.jpg)
View scientists conducting blue crab research on Chesapeake Bay.
Credit: NSF
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![blue crab in person's hands](/news/mmg/media/images/Big Jimmy I_f.jpg)
Chesapeake Bay blue crabs are in decline: How much does disease play a part?
Credit: Dave Taylor, DFO Canada
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![salt marshes on the Eastern Shore of the Delmarva Peninsula.](/news/mmg/media/images/piers at watchapreague_f.jpg)
Domain of the Chesapeake blue crab: salt marshes on the Eastern Shore of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Credit: Jeff Shields, VIMS
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![researchers with crab samples in a boat at sea](/news/mmg/media/images/Goodwin1_f.jpg)
Juvenile blue crabs are collected in shallow seagrass beds, then sorted for transport to the lab.
Credit: Hamish Small, VIMS
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![Scientists Jeff Shields and Anna Coffey of VIMS pull a crab pot from the water](/news/mmg/media/images/huntley shield crab pot_10c3d9b5-22ff-44a5-806e-4e818cf729dc_f.jpg)
Scientists Jeff Shields and Anna Coffey of the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences pull a crab pot and sort crabs into coolers.
Credit: Dave Taylor, DFO Newfoundland
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![Two mature male blue crabs with the distinctive color of their claws and walking legs.](/news/mmg/media/images/blue crabs to be processed_f.jpg)
Two mature male blue crabs show the distinctive color of their claws and walking legs.
Credit: Jeff Shields, VIMS
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![researcher taking blood from the base of a walking leg of a blue crab using a syringe](/news/mmg/media/images/blood from a crab_f.jpg)
Hemolymph, or blood, is taken from the base of a walking leg of a blue crab.
Credit: Jeff Shields, VIMS
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