PHOTO OF THE DAY June 27, 2005  

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Where Bay Ridge, Maryland
When 1992
Photographer Robert W. Madden

With the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in the background fishers set crab lines in North America's largest estuary. Overharvesting and environmental damage have led to a decrease in adult crab populations in the bay.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Chesapeake Bay: Hanging in the Balance," June 1993, National Geographic magazine)


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