Guest Post January 12, 2012 Environment army corps of engineers , bering sea , causes , claws , climate and corps , crab populations , crab sagas , david armstrong , death assemblages , don bevan , dungeness crab , ecosystem , ghost shrimp , grays harbor , grays harbor estuaries , habitat , habitat destruction , myriad issues , natural factors , overfishing , pacific northwest , pacific oyster shell , predators , red king crab , soft shell mya , sustainability , sustainability meets reality , sustainable fisheries , tanya bevan , us crab fisheries , washington fishermen , washington state , willapa bay Decades of wild swings in crab populations – some natural, some human-caused – dramatize the myriad issues surrounding questions about sustainable fisheries and the ecosystems that support them.
So said David Armstrong , professor and director of aquatic and fishery sciences , in his Jan. 5 talk “Claws, causes, climate and corps: A cavalcade of true crab sagas.” (more…)
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