NMFS is taking a second look at its determinations on blue swimming crab, and imports from four countries will remain legal ...

No. 1 male crabs are those that measure at least 6 1/2 inches from point to point. In Maryland, consumers will pay almost any price for No. 1s, so most of those caught in Louisiana's waters end up in ...

Wildlife officials are warning people about invasive blue land crabs that are showing up in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina along the coasts. The Georgia Department of Natural Resources ...

Blue land crabs have been creeping their way up the East Coast, prompting officials in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina to issue warnings about the potentially invasive species. In a ...

This week, WTOP takes you from the bottom of the bay to the picnic table in our four-part series Claws and Effect: The murky future of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab. Listen on air and read it online.

GEORGIA, — Georgia wildlife officials are asking the public for more information after there's been several recent sightings of invasive blue land crabs in coastal Georgia, according to a Facebook ...

CAMBIRDGE, Md. - A new pilot program introduced by the Department of Natural Resources has watermen frustrated. It's with the possible implementation of plastic, rectangular containers called lugs.

It was earlier this year that the founder of a Newport News fishing wholesaling company was sentenced for passing off foreign crab meat as American blue crab from U.S. waters. James R. Casey, 75, of ...

The Palatka City Commission decided to return the Blue Crab Festival to community management, requiring any interested groups or individuals to apply through the City’s Special Event Permit process.

It’s safe to say 183 tons is a lot of crab meat. It’s certainly a lot of crabmeat to import from other countries and repackage as U.S.-raised blue crab. The vice president of a Virginia seafood ...