The Chesapeake Bay blue crab population continues to grow, an encouraging sign for a species that has struggled to subsist for more than a decade.
Gov. Martin O'Malley held a news conference at the Fisherman's Inn in Kent Narrows this morning to announce a nearly 60 percent increase in the crab population.
He attributed the increase to harvest restrictions enacted in both Maryland and Virginia two years ago.
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