Robust Season For Stone Crabs As Supply Is Up And Prices Down

Stone crabs made a comeback in the seven-month season of claw harvest that ends Tuesday.

"From the first week of the season, there were a lot of crabs and a lot of them were big," said biologist Ryan Gandy, a crab specialist for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute.

"This year reversed a trend of low catches that we've been seeing for the past five or six years," Gandy said.

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