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What’s with all the dead crabs floating in the Merrimack River estuary in Mass, USA?

There are lots of dead crabs floating in the Merrimack River estuary, near Plum Island and Newburyport, Massachusetts. It doesn’t look like the birds are eating them, even though they’re eating fish. I spotted all these dead crabs from a kayak at high tide.

Does anybody know what’s going on?