{"id":217663,"date":"2025-07-11T22:02:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-parasitic-worm-may-help-rebuild-blue-crab-populations-in-the-chesapeake-bay"},"modified":"2025-07-11T22:02:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:02:59","slug":"a-parasitic-worm-may-help-rebuild-blue-crab-populations-in-the-chesapeake-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/a-parasitic-worm-may-help-rebuild-blue-crab-populations-in-the-chesapeake-bay","title":{"rendered":"A parasitic worm may help rebuild blue crab populations in the Chesapeake Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-parasitic-worm-may-help-rebuild-blue-crab-populations-in-the-chesapeake-bay.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they\u2019re simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, a new study <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.plos.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0326493\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>PLOS One<\/i> by researchers at William &amp; Mary\u2019s Batten School &amp; VIMS suggests these worms could serve as a valuable biomarker for managing the fishery.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesapeakebay.net\/what\/publications\/2025-chesapeake-bay-blue-crab-advisory-report\" target=\"_blank\">Winter Dredge Survey<\/a>, conducted by the Batten School of Coastal &amp; Marine Sciences &amp; VIMS in collaboration with Maryland\u2019s Department of Natural Resources, recorded historically low numbers of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/blue+crabs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blue crabs<\/a> in the Chesapeake Bay. The findings have sparked concern among the fishery\u2019s many stakeholders and highlight a need for new tools that can help balance economic and ecological priorities\u2014this study may help with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they\u2019re simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. Interestingly, a new study published in the journal PLOS One by researchers at William &amp; Mary\u2019s Batten School &amp; VIMS suggests these worms could serve as a valuable biomarker for managing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}