Prior to the mid-1960s, Louisiana commercial crabbers used trotlines and dip nets to harvest blue crabs. By 1970, modern crab traps had entirely replaced the inefficient trotline method.

Prior to the mid-1960s, Louisiana commercial crabbers used trotlines and dip nets to harvest blue crabs. By 1970, modern crab traps had entirely replaced the inefficient trotline method.

The paper explained that blue crab canning has heretofore been impracticable because the crabs have unstable protein molecules, which, in the heat required for canning, release copper, cause blue ...

Hermit crabs have a curled tail with a hook that enables their bodies to fit inside these borrowed shells. Sometimes when a ...

Some important changes are coming to the world of crabbing this year, all with the goal of protecting and preserving South Carolina's blue crab population.“The ...

Harvesting blue crabs is still big business in Florida. Here's what you should know about the tasty crustacean.

CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — As of this week, local blue crabbers are adjusting to new regulations. Officials are now enforcing a state law passed last year to protect the blue crab ...

Blue land crabs (which are not always blue) dig and live in land burrows but migrate to the ocean during "spawning season." Are they safe to eat?

For centuries, surely not long after the arrival of Captain John Smith, the first Englishman to explore the Chesapeake Bay, Marylanders have developed a deep affection for blue crabs or ...

It was a crab-ulous find. Cavers encountered a massive blue crab in a cavern in India, marking the first time the at-risk species had been spotted in the region in 150 years, per a watershed study ...

August is a great time to catch blue claw crabs in New Jersey. The water is at some of its warmest temperatures in August and you are likely to catch some pretty big crabs. The month of August is ...

The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say that doesn't necessarily mean crabs will cost you more this summer.