The blue crab Callinectes sapidus has a broad latitudinal distribution from Nova Scotia to northern Argentina, including Bermuda and the Antilles (Balmorí-Ramírez et al. 2021). In the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, two stocks are considered to exist: an NE Gulf of Mexico stock along the Florida state coast up to Apalachee Bay and an NW Gulf of Mexico stock occurring from Apalachicola Bay, Florida to the west of the Gulf in the U.S., based on genetic and phylogenetic analysis (GDAR 2013). However, studies conducted by (Macedo 2017) and (Neigel et al. 2020) suggest no genetic structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico or even the North Atlantic. In Mexican waters, where the population structure is unclear, the fishery occurs in 5 states: Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan (DOF 2022). The resource is captured as part of a multispecies fishery with four other species of the genus Callinectes (DOF 2022). For the purpose of this profile, and considering that both assessment and management also consider it as the stock, the population is considered as the entire Mexico Gulf of Mexico ((DOF 2022)(Balmori-Ramírez et al. 2021).