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.

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.

Blue crabs are abundant all along the Jersey coast, and some of the best bets for finding crabs are in tidal creeks and ...

One bad crab season didn’t used to worry the fleet, not in an existential way. The Dungeness crab industry — or fishery — brings in more than $50 million in a good year and naturally cycles ...

Clark Pederson, deckhand aboard the F/V Northwestern, sorts crab on the vessel’s sorting table. Discovery Channel photo.

Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the ...