Like all arthropods, crabs must shed their tough exoskeleton to grow to a larger size. The video from the Shape of Life ...

By Katherine Hafner/WHRO Each summer for nearly four decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have tethered some baby blue crabs along a Chesapeake Bay tributary. Then ...

Made with plenty of sweet lump crab and just enough binder to hold it together, these classic Maryland-style crab cakes keep the focus exactly where it belongs.

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 ...

Young blue crabs hide in the shallows to avoid being eaten by their cannibal cousins, reveals new research. Juvenile crabs rely on shrinking shallow-water habitats as a refuge to escape cannibalism by ...

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. This ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Environmental advocates are raising concerns over the continued decline of the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population, just as this year’s regulations on harvesting the species have been ...

Annapolis, Md. — Today, April 1, 2026, marks the official opening day of Maryland’s 2026 recreational blue crab season in the ...

Cleaning a crab is very quick and easy. Today I'd like to share with you how to clean a crab, using a blue crab as an example ...