2-1-12: Save the Males?

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Three years ago, Maryland and Virginia imposed restrictions on catching female blue crabs that succeeded in roughly doubling the population of the once-troubled icon of the Chesapeake Bay. But a side effect of this good news is that adult female crabs now outnumber males by about three to one, leading one researcher to question whether the imbalance could impede reproduction.