Until trap season reopens, blue crabs may be harvested with other gear, such as dip nets and fold-up traps. Blue crab ...

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

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission maintained existing regulations, which ban catching blue crabs during winter months.

We went deep with blue crabs—and the monsters came out to play! Watch as we battle some serious underwater beasts in this intense deep-water fishing session.

ORBETELLO, Italy (AP) — Italians are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs with an attitude borne of centuries of culinary making do: If you can’t beat them, eat them. Fishermen ...

During my weekly beachcombing surveys, I came across three large blue land crabs moving slowly near the water’s edge. These fascinating creatures are often mistaken for blue crabs, the kind many ...

The culprit, which now threatens millions of euros worth of annual profits in shellfish, is the Atlantic blue crab, first introduced in the bilge water of foreign merchant and cruise ships several ...

As the ocean temperature warms, more blue crabs are moving into the Gulf of Maine, according to researchers collecting data about the species.

1 dozen cleaned crabs 1 pound (50-count) shrimp, peeled and deveined 1 pound jumbo lump crabmeat 1 pound heavy smoked sausage, sliced 1 gallon water ¾ cup vegetable oil ¾ cup flour 1½ cups ...

Now, scientists are raising questions about whether an invasive and voracious predator in the water may be a factor in the crab crisis.

Then floods this spring in the Emilia-Romagna region, where Goro is, washed them into the lagoon, where the warm summer water increased the blue crabs’ metabolism and, free of natural predators ...

Blue crabs, quintessential to the Chesapeake Bay and Gulf Coast, have been known to show up now and then in northern lobster traps. But about three to four years ago, scientists started hearing ...