No. 1 male crabs are those that measure at least 6 1/2 inches from point to point. In Maryland, consumers will pay almost any price for No. 1s, so most of those caught in Louisiana's waters end up in ...

The Marine Fisheries Commission was expected to consider adopting more restrictions on the commercial harvest of blue crabs, a move the N.C. Carolina Coastal Counties Fisheries Coalition opposes, but ...

President Bush pulled nearly $4 million from a project to study blue crabs in Maryland. Program director Yonathan Zohar makes a bid for your attention. Imagine Maryland crabless. A research project in ...

This week, WTOP takes you from the bottom of the bay to the picnic table in our four-part series Claws and Effect: The murky future of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab. Listen on air and read it online.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- If you live in this state, chances are you know and adore these little guys. "All Marylanders love to eat big juicy fat blue crabs," said Dr. J. Sook Chung, a doctor at the ...

A crab feed is how you mark the summer season in Maryland. Baltimore-native David Lentz remembers it well, and for the last decade he’s revived the warm weather ritual once a year at his Hollywood ...

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Invasive blue land crabs native to warmer climes have been spotted along the Georgia coast recently, wildlife officials warned Wednesday. The blue land crabs, as their name implies, live much of their ...

It was earlier this year that the founder of a Newport News fishing wholesaling company was sentenced for passing off foreign crab meat as American blue crab from U.S. waters. James R. Casey, 75, of ...

GEORGIA, — Georgia wildlife officials are asking the public for more information after there's been several recent sightings of invasive blue land crabs in coastal Georgia, according to a Facebook ...