The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has fallen to its second-lowest level since 1990, down 25% from last year, according to an annual study published Thursday. The numbers are alarming, ...

Thousands of people from all over gathered in Panacea on Saturday to celebrate the 49th annual Blue Crab Festival.

Under a University of Bologna effort called Octo-Blu, about 80,000 common octopuses raised in captivity have been released ...

Blue crab, which is in season in the fall, becomes meatier and sweeter, making it popular as sashimi. However, even blue crab ...

Predators released in Mediterranean to combat crustaceans damaging coastal fishing economies ...

After half a decade of worryingly low numbers, the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population appears to be fighting its way out of a slump. This year's field sampling estimated a total population of 349 ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science have sequenced the genome of the blue crab. The best way to understand an organism is to understand its genetic makeup, also ...

In the basement of a lab at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, the Chosen One was born. At least that’s what researchers at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science called her. She was the ...

The blue crab may be pretty but it is a menace along Albania's coast. A source of daily anguish for Balkan fishermen struggling to make ends meet, the invasive species is upsetting the region's ...

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If you’ve spotted a blue land crab skittering across sand dunes on North Carolina’s Crystal Coast, or you do this holiday weekend, you might’ve jumped at the sight of its massive claw. Blue land crabs ...