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

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Chesapeake Bay's most popular crustacean is also a cannibal. Adult blue crabs frequently prey on juveniles, making meals of the young of their ...

NMFS is taking a second look at its determinations on blue swimming crab, and imports from four countries will remain legal ...

CRABBER IN ABERDEEN FOR HIS TAKE ON THIS ISSUE. NOBODY LIKES THE IDEA OF WINTER DREDGING, AND THAT INCLUDES THE STAFF OF THE COMMISSION LOOKING INTO IT. ONE IMPORTANT BUT HARD TO DETERMINE AT THIS ...

A strong incoming tide on a morning earlier this week pushed a surge of brackish water up a marsh-rimmed slough connected to Galveston Bay, the tidal flow bearing on its bosom some of the fortunes and ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...