![]() ![]() The Blue Crabs play in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, MLB’s Premiere Partner League. We cannot wait to see the Blue Crabs back on the diamond in front of a packed crowd full of proud members of Crustacean Nation! As the shortstop, he logged 970 innings, turning 46 double plays and 293 assists, second most in the Atlantic League.īaca is now the sixth returning player from last year’s playoff team as the 15th-anniversary roster continues to add players. Last season with the Crabs, Baca won the job as the everyday shortstop for the first-half division championship-winning team. The shortstop would return to the Atlantic League in 2019 to play for the High Point Rockers before making his way to Southern Maryland in 2021. Baca has played in the Frontier League, the American Association, and the Canadian-American Association. The Lone-Star State native began his career in 2017 with the New Britain Bees, where he originally met Manager Stan Cliburn. The 30-year-old is entering his fifth season in professional baseball and will be his third in Southern Maryland. – On Friday, the Blue Crabs announced the signing of shortstop Michael Baca. Aguilar said they’ve tagged about 50,000 crabs over the last 15 years.WALDORF, Md. They’re long time crabbers too,” Cochran explained. “I talked to some colleagues in Crystal River yesterday evening showed them the crab and they were just as speechless as I was. ![]() It’s something Cochran said has been a once in a lifetime experience. Now the center is working with Cochran to get the crab sent back to them so they can do some tests to see why he traveled as far as his did. “Unlike the females, they don’t have a directed migration, and also males in theory should continue to molt, to continue to grow, so when they molt they shed their exoskeleton and in theory they will then shed any tag that is attached to the carapace.” Agular said it was also an unusual catch because it was a male crab. Some of them get captured as far south as North Carolina,” Robert Aguilar, a biologist at the center, said. “We’ve tagged a number of crabs in the Chesapeake Bay. Turns out the crab had been tagged by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in the Chesapeake Bay, and over the course of several years made his way into the gulf and then into King’s Bay.Ī scientist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center told us this is the furthest a blue crab has traveled since they started tagging them. He noticed the pink tag on the crab and called the number listed. “I was looking around like, is this a joke or is this something that’s all over or is this one of a kind?” he explained. It’s certainly not something Thomas Cochran with TJE Seafood expected to find while taking in his normal harvest from King’s Bay. Turns out one of his blue crabs had traveled to our area all the way from Maryland! Experts say that’s very unusual. I can’t wait to call the scientists next year to hear this crab story.Ī fisherman in Crystal River made quite the catch this week. Not to mention the fact that Florida is a long walk for any creature that spends most of its time walking sideways in the wrong direction. According to the tag info in the article below, the migration took several years, which is weird considering it was a male and they molt when they grow. Yes, a Maryland blue crab made it all the way to Florida from the Chesapeake Bay. ![]() Petersburg, FL, reported that one crab was found on the gulf side of Florida near the Crystal River in King’s Bay. Today though, Kim Leoffler of Bay News 9 in St. Some tagged crabs were reported as far south as North Carolina in the Core Sound. We learned a great deal especially about migration and movement. The interview was interesting and informative. We got in touch with the people doing the tagging for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) Animal Tracking Studies. Two years ago people were catching tagged blue claw crabs near us in the Chesapeake and its tributaries. ![]()
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