Often treated as throwaway pets, hermit crabs can live 50 years. Mary Akers, a self-taught expert, wants people to appreciate them as much as she does. Credit... Supported by By Katie L. Burke and ...

Smithsonian researchers discovered who devours the most young blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay — it’s not people or even fish, but older, larger blue crabs with a surprising taste for cannibalism. And ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Port of Vancouver are investigating a video posted to social media. The video shows a group of Mandarin-speaking sailors hauling crab traps onto the deck of a large ...

A 37-year study in the Chesapeake Bay revealed that a major predator of young blue crabs might be their own kind The Chesapeake Bay’s crabs are tearing themselves apart. A decades-long study of the ...

A food vlogger in the Philippines has died after eating a poisonous “Devil Crab" on social media. Emma Amit, 51, died in the hospital two days after she filmed herself eating the toxic Zosimus aeneus ...

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BAY POINT, N.J. — Susan Linder was hunting for buried treasure. Kneeling at low tide, the biologist dug up small shovelfuls of sand, scanning each scoop for tiny jewels. One yielded a cluster of ...

The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say that doesn't necessarily mean crabs will cost you more this summer. A survey by the ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — In Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, two populations are under threat: the iconic blue crab and the crabbers whose livelihoods have depended on this fishery for hundreds of years. Subscribe ...

If you can't beat them, eat them. That's become a slogan of sorts for the New England seafood industry and some of the fishermen who supply them, as they try to eradicate – or at least control – the ...

The fleeting soft-shell crab season is here again and Charleston's chefs are yearning to wow their patrons with different renditions of the sought-after crustacean. Soft-shell season comes around ...

America’s Northeastern coast has been overrun by crabs from Europe and Asia. Luckily, they’re delicious. Dehydrated Asian shore crabs, an invasive species on the East Coast, ready to be served at a ...