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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA — State lawmakers and South Carolina crabbers are close to agreeing how best to protect the state's plummeting blue crab population, but one section of the proposal is standing in the way.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Since 2014, the state’s Lost Fishing Gear Recovery Project, led by the North Carolina Coastal Federation in partnership with ...