Between 100 and 300 adult crabs will take up residence in Sarasota, producing those 250,000 crabs annually to eventually graze algae on the reef. Spadaro said that’s really just a drop in the ...

Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium celebrated the official opening of its Florida Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery Research Center Monday as the first fully operational Caribbean king crab ...

‘Reef goats’: Seaweed-loving giant crabs could help save corals in the Florida Keys By Adriana Brasileiro. Updated December 14, 2020 6:07 PM.

For the Mesoamerican Reef in the Caribbean Basin – which spans almost 700 miles from the Yucatan Peninsula to Honduras – as many as 96 million crabs could be needed.

Over the next four years, scientists will plant 242,000 coral fragments and add 34,000 Caribbean king crabs on 10 reef sites – the seven targeted by NOAA and three others by Mote.

Mote's Caribbean king crab clutch will eventually be introduced onto Florida’s Coral Reef as part of the ongoing M:IR initiative led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ...

Crabs raised at new Mote facility could be living on the Florida Reef Tract by December or January Mote Coral Reef Restoration Crab Hatchery opens – here's why that matters Skip to main content ...

The crabs don’t affect heat tolerance directly — rather, they appear to remove the stress of injury by cleaning coral wounds.” The results also have implications for coral reef restoration ...

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission maintained existing regulations, which ban catching blue crabs during winter months.