Admiring the blue catfish's grey complexion you may wonder why anyone would encourage you to eat one. But there's a whole campaign behind it aimed at protecting Maryland's beloved blue crabs.

The number of adult female, male and juvenile crabs in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia raises concern for experts ...

From December through March, they tow a dredge along the bottom and record the size and sex of those crabs found buried there after ... Concern about the impact of blue catfish is so great in Maryland ...

and keeping blue crab on the menu... These crab cakes are making Maryland proud ... The crabs are measured and sorted by size and sex. Okay, it's a peeler. So, what does that mean.

Blue crab populations in the Chesapeake Bay took a sizable hit in 2025, marking a need for more cautious harvest regulations, ...

This summer Maryland will impose new restrictions on crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay — including the first-ever limits on how many bushels of male blue ... crabs, depending on their size.

Truth be told, not all of those crabs come from Maryland ... I can expect to haul in at least half a dozen blue claws of legal size. In Maryland’s coastal bays and tributaries where I do ...