Virginia state regulators removed an important protection for the blue crab Tuesday when they narrowly approved reopening the winter season after a 15-year closure, subjecting the vulnerable and ...

Louisiana's rich wetlands provide a bounty of delicious seafood, and blue crabs are among the crown jewels. Found in the warm, brackish waters of Lake Pontchartrain and other points where the fishing ...

Imagine a ghost crab combined with a fiddler crab. Now imagine that hybrid on steroids, like the performance-enhancing drugs used by professional baseball players in the 1990s. That image effectively ...

George Turner phoned last week to say he'd caught the biggest crab he'd seen in 46 years of crabbing the Severn River. "It was every bit of nine inches across the back," said the real estate man, who ...

I’ve been an avid crabber now for over 70 years, getting my start as a four or five-year old chicken-necking with handlines for the tasty crustaceans in the salty backwaters of Ocean City, Md. Under ...

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - Some changes are coming to the crabbing industry as both recreational and industrial crabbers are reporting low numbers of blue crabs in our state’s waters. The South ...

One muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) ...

Some years on Lake Pontchartrain, the crabbing is so good, you'd likely lose your toes if you fell overboard. You look around and wonder why Capt. Sig hasn't relocated the Northwestern from the Bering ...