The shrimps use cavitation to stun their prey - small crabs, fish and worms - or to communicate with other shrimps.

BBC: Shrimp, bubble and pop

Young turtles thrive in such areas, which provide protection from predators and ample food, including small crabs, snails and other creatures.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

If the catch was on the small side, we would opt for an equally delicious main course of garlic-baked blue crabs.

WSJ: Endless-Summer Baked Blue Crab

Harvey Brown grabs each mesh pot as the winch pulls it out of the water, and methodically packs in more bait, shakes out the crabs into a box on deck, sorts the males from the females, tosses those too small to keep back into the bay and then drops the pot for its journey back to the bottom.

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