New research into true crabs shows that the creatures, as a group, are as old as the oldest known dinosaurs. Evolutionary models have uncovered the fact that crabs, apparently, often migrated from ...

Many people look forward to the Dungeness crab season in the fall. This year, the season is delayed to protect migrating sea ...

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

After years of a shortened crab fishing season aimed at preventing whale entanglements off the West Coast, California crabbers are experimenting with a new fishing method that allows them to stay on ...

The 2025 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey estimates 238 million blue crabs, a decrease from 317 million in 2024 and the second lowest on record. The survey revealed distressing declines ...

Jonathan Martinescu of Fort Myers took home the crown at Key Fisheries' annual contest, thanks to one very oversized spoon.

The Knot EZ, seen in this undated photo, had been illegally discharging oily bilge water over multiple fishing seasons, federal prosecutors said. A longtime Alaska fisher who was sentenced in May to a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. After years of a shortened crab fishing ...