The blue crabs are considered a big topic to be dealt with in the Chesapeake Bay on the East Coast. Blue crabs are considered a great deal in the Chesapeake Bay for food or produce near Maryland and Virginia, so when scientists discovered that the blue crab numbers have dropped significantly to the point where they can’t sustain themselves anymore, there are works in progress to help bring back the blue crabs before they go extinct. Some people and authors have written debates and arguments about how they feel about the blue crabs and what people should do to preserve them. One example in this specific argument is for people to do a moratorium, or a temporary ban on catching crabs. The argument that people should stop crabbing the Chesapeake
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This reason is relevant to the claim because if the people look over the problems in the Chesapeake Bay, they will realize that their negative contributions to the bay are hurting the crabs. By putting a moratorium, crabs can repopulate while the watermen help clean the bay for the crabs. According to “all kinds of reasons have been floated in different years for the problems with Chesapeake crabs: pollution, algae blooms, depleted bay grasses, the loss of oyster reefs, severe-winter die-offs, over harvesting, growing numbers of ravenous rockfish and red drum that eat baby crabs. The harsh winter of 2013 through 2014 gets some of the blame”, the listed evidence shows the many ways why the blue crabs are dying off and aren’t coming back.The evidence is valid because the reason that crab numbers are significantly going down is because of the many negative situations in the bay, like the pollution. This shows that a moratorium and Chesapeake Bay aid is needed, to stop eating crabs and letting them repopulate while the watermen contribute to the aid of the environment of crabs. However, the author doesn’t have any sources listed with credible evidence. Although the evidence has good points that may contribute to a declining crab population, there are no cited sources with scientific facts and
This reason is relevant to the claim because if the people look over the problems in the Chesapeake Bay, they will realize that their negative contributions to the bay are hurting the crabs. By putting a moratorium, crabs can repopulate while the watermen help clean the bay for the crabs. According to “all kinds of reasons have been floated in different years for the problems with Chesapeake crabs: pollution, algae blooms, depleted bay grasses, the loss of oyster reefs, severe-winter die-offs, over harvesting, growing numbers of ravenous rockfish and red drum that eat baby crabs. The harsh winter of 2013 through 2014 gets some of the blame”, the listed evidence shows the many ways why the blue crabs are dying off and aren’t coming back.The evidence is valid because the reason that crab numbers are significantly going down is because of the many negative situations in the bay, like the pollution. This shows that a moratorium and Chesapeake Bay aid is needed, to stop eating crabs and letting them repopulate while the watermen contribute to the aid of the environment of crabs. However, the author doesn’t have any sources listed with credible evidence. Although the evidence has good points that may contribute to a declining crab population, there are no cited sources with scientific facts and