But at least one of the nonnative species is being bounced from the bay by a homegrown carnivore.
Blue crabs have developed a taste for green crabs, keeping their population down, according to a study by scientists from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater. Their results were published in the latest issue of the journal Ecology.
In one of a series of tests for the study, researchers put green and blue crabs in controlled...
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