Report a tag – Blue Crab Tagging Program

Your name (required)*

Your phone number (required)*

Your email

At the time you caught the tagged crab, were you crabbing or shrimping (commercially or recreationally)?

Commercial crabbing
Recreational crabbing
Commercial shrimping
Recreational shrimping

Tag number (located in center on front of tag- includes a letter followed by 5 numbers)

Date caught (mm/dd/yyyy)

Location where tagged crab was caught (please be as specific as possible: GPS coordinates or nearest landmarks, and include the state where the crab was caught)

Was the crab carrying an egg mass (berried, sponge crab)? If so, what was the color of the egg mass?

No eggs visible.
Eggs present- orange
Eggs present- brown
Eggs present- black

Other comments

After you report the tagged crab, you can either harvest the crab as you normally would or release the crab alive at the same location where it was caught.