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Environment
Published
06/01/08
CRISFIELD, Md. - Quick ecology quiz: What does a hulking scraper dragging grass strands out of a river near the Chesapeake Bay have to do with reviving blue crabs? 
Kristen Wyatt — Associated Press
Warren Teets,a tugboat operator, hired by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, uses an underwater harvester to collect eelgrass clippings from the Little Annemessex River in Crisfield, Md., on May 28. The boat operates like an underwater lawn mower and takes off about a foot from eelgrass plants while leaving the roots intact. Find Us On Facebook
It could mean the difference between a restored population of the bay's hallmark seafood and the decline of the region's best-loved critter.
Maryland and Virginia fishery managers are dragging the bottoms of the Chesapeake and Atlantic coastal bays in search of seeds from eelgrass, a type of underwater vegetation crucial to blue crabs. The submerged grass is in serious trouble from water pollution and warmer, saltier water creeping up the Chesapeake...
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