The vast majority of the items the researchers saw the hermit crabs using in the photographs were made of plastic Hermit crabs all over the world, which scavenge shells as armour for their bodies, are ...

Hello folks! Today we're on the saltwaters of Buzzard's Bay, jigging and drifting for black sea bass. We're rigged up with our favourite jig, the Flexi-Jig, baited with plastic artificial twister ...

A new alternative bait product that will help reduce the number of horseshoe crabs harvested from the Delaware Bay was introduced on May 29. For years, commercial eel and whelk fishers have dealt with ...

About this time two years ago, we looked at the efforts of Miles Lightwood and the Thingiverse community to 3D print shells for hermit crabs, but Tokyo-born artist Aki Inomata has been creating ...

Sand crabs, a key species in beach ecosystems, were found to have increased adult mortality and decreased reproductive success when exposed to plastic microfibers, according to a new study. Sand crabs ...

Offshore wind power and wave energy foundations can increase local abundances of fish and crabs. The reef-like constructions also favor blue mussels and barnacles. What's more, it is possible to ...

Q My kids like catching those little gray, bug-like things in the sand where the waves break on the beach. Sometimes we find them and sometimes we don't. We've heard them called sand fleas. Can you ...