How many blue crabs are in our river? A whole bunch. And you can even find some on a "farm" in Oak Hill, where you can pick ...

ORBETELLO, Italy (AP) — Italians are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs with an attitude borne of centuries of culinary making do: If you can't beat them, eat them. Fishermen, lobbying ...

With Memorial Day now in the rearview mirror, it’s time to ponder the approach of summer and one of the Maryland’s most beloved traditions, the consumption of blue crabs. Whether seasoned, steamed and ...

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore asked for federal help on Thursday in an attempt to reel in the invasive blue catfish species for possibly depleting the state’s blue crab population. Moore wrote United States ...

One muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) ...

The 2025 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey estimates 238 million blue crabs, a decrease from 317 million in 2024 and the second lowest on record. The survey revealed distressing declines ...

ONE of our more exciting Farm House expeditions is a Blue Crab Hunt. Blue crabs are our largest, crab. The shells measure six to seven inches across their longest diameter. Horseshoe crabs don’t count ...