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In Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, two populations are under threat: the iconic blue crab and the crabbers whose livelihoods ...
The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say this won't ...
Blue crabs are abundant all along the Jersey coast, and some of the best bets for finding crabs are in tidal creeks and ...
Clark Pederson, deckhand aboard the F/V Northwestern, sorts crab on the vessel’s sorting table. Discovery Channel photo.
Stone Crab Season Kicks Off on October 15 — Here's Where to Taste the Famous Claws. Here's what's special about the crab variety that's famous on Florida's Gulf Coast.
When stone crabs are pulled from the traps (usually every seven to 10 days during the season), only legal-sized claws are broken off, and the crabs are returned to the water.
As Florida’s stone crab season begins on Tuesday, Oct. 15, the double-whammy of back-to-back hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico may cause stone-crab prices to jump.