The Chesapeake Bay suffered a massive die-off of its underwater eel-grass beds this summer that could mean more bad news for the blue-crab. It’s had a negative impact on the blue-crab, but researchers haven’t determined the extent of it yet. The eel-grass is important to the blue-crab, because the blue-crab larvae from each season’s spawn hides from predators in eel-grass beds.

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