Add blue crabs and stone crabs to the list of wildlife plummeting in the Indian River Lagoon region.
While crab harvests can vary widely year-to-year, the long-term trend has been a downward spiral.
According to a FLORIDA TODAY analysis of state data:
Brevard’s commercial blue crab catch in 2012 was less than one-tenth what it was 25 years ago and the lowest since Florida began collecting the data in 1986. Fishermen bring ashore less than half the pounds of crab each trip than they did 25 years ago.
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