The legal size for harvesting blue crabs varies by location, but generally, hard-shell blue crabs must be at least 4.5 to 5 ...

With stone crab season here, I wanted to answer a simple question: Which stone crab size is the best value? So I bought a pound of medium, large and colossal claws last weekend, stripped away the ...

Male fiddler crabs are lopsided, with one claw that seems about the right size and one very large claw. As you might expect, one function of the larger claw is to attract females. The males drum ...

Tiny crabs, the size of a pea, dwell inside the mantles of various bivalves, living off the particulate food filtered by the host. A new species of these curious crustaceans has recently been ...

The minimum-size increase for the male hard crab, plus new rules that ban the possession of egg-bearing females and set a 3 1/2 -inch limit on peelers and a 4-inch minimum on soft-shell crabs, may ...

Mud crabs are well-known in captivity for their high flesh content and quick development rate. A mature mud crab weigh around 1,200 grammes. On the global market, live mud crabs are in high demand.

Every October for the past 30 years, Bering Sea fishermen have raced to bring in the fishery-wide quota of king crab in what was popularly known as "the derby," a mad dash that made boat owners ...

Hairy crabs in farm ponds across the nation are about 20 percent smaller in size than in previous years, the traders said.