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Federal Funds Cut for Chesapeake Bay Crab Study
   posted 9:32 am Mon January 07, 2008 - Baltimore
The omnibus spending bill recently signed into law by President Bush eliminates funding for a research project in Baltimore hoping to boost the blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay.

The Center of Marine Biotechnology at the Inner Harbor received nearly $4 million from Washington for the project last year, but that appropriation was cut to zero for the current year.

Center director Yonathan Zohar says he has enough money to continue the research until the end of this year and will seek other funding. The researchers have been looking at the life cycle of the blue crab and observing how young crabs migrate in the bay.

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