In it’s Conservation Weekly Digest Bulletin, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently issued a reminder to harvesters to report tagged blue crabs.
DEC’s blue crab tagging program was initiated to investigate the migration patterns, habitat preferences, and life history traits of blue crab (“blue claw crab”) in New York’s waters.
During DEC field surveys, blue crabs are captured and tagged with a yellow wire carapace tag which has a specific number attributed to each crab.
Harvesters that catch a tagged crab are asked to record the 5-digit tag number found on the left side of the tag, the specific location of where the tagged crab was captured, and the date of capture.
Harvesters can visit DEC’s website to report the tag. For more information about crabbing in New York, visit DEC’s crabbing webpage.
source: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
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