After a rebound last year from a rock bottom count the year before, the number of blue crabs estimated in the Chesapeake Bay held fairly steady, according to this year’s winter survey. For the survey, ...

Beaufort native Brett Everett races across the glassy surface of the Morgan River in a 22-foot boat on a muggy 71-degree morning, using the Lowcountry waterway to drive deep into the salt marshes. But ...

TODDVILLE, MD - The annual crab count in the Chesapeake Bay holds significant implications for the upcoming year's regulations. Meaning, the final numbers from the survey essentially determine the ...

The presence of the first stone crabs in Chesapeake Bay, a sign of how global warming is pushing tropical species northward.

HAMPTON — The Atlantic blue crab doesn’t usually make a home along the coast of New Hampshire, especially not in winter. But a recent finding of the little blue guys along a local beach has some ...

Maryland officials and environmentalists are railing against a Virginia decision that could reopen a long-closed segment of that state’s blue crab fishery. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission ...

An assessment of the NT's two mud crab fisheries has found the abundance of crabs in the Arafura West region has fallen below a trigger point. Both fisheries will soon be closed for three months. The ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY, Va. - For the first time on record, scientists have documented the presence of stone crabs in Chesapeake Bay waters off of Virginia. According to the Virginia Institute of Marine ...