By the firelight, the air smelled of salt and smoke — proof that sometimes the hardest catches taste the sweetest.

The menu at The Blue Crab Crabhouse reads like a love letter to the Atlantic, with special emphasis on its namesake delicacy—blue crabs that arrive at your table steamed to perfection and seasoned ...

Hidden in the charming fishing village of Leipsic, Delaware, there’s an unassuming blue building with an orange crab sign that has seafood enthusiasts making special trips from every corner of the ...

Humans don’t need to blast off into space to find some truly alien-looking wonders. The deepest depths of our ocean are like ...

North Florida's Apalachicola Bay will reopen for wild oyster harvesting, a move that supporters hope will breathe life into one of the last historic working waterfronts in ...

The MdFoodieBoyz podcasters pick crabs with The Baltimore Sun, Frank’s Pizza and Pasta wins a best New York-style slice award ...

An enzyme in the blue blood has been key to testing vaccines since the 1980s, raising concerns for the crabs’ population. But ...

Egg-eating worms living on Chesapeake Bay blue crabs may hold the key to smarter fishery management. Once thought to be a threat, these parasites actually serve as natural biomarkers that reveal when ...

A potentially invasive crab species has landed in coastal South Carolina, from Hilton Head, though the Charleston area and up to Myrtle Beach. State regulators are asking the public to report ...

GLOUCESTER — The Chesapeake Bay might have a new resident, thanks to warming waters and successful habitat restoration. Blue crabs are the typical catch in local waters. But crabbers on the bay have ...

Blue land crabs are edible and are a food source in the Bahamas and the Caribbean. In Florida, harvesting blue land crabs is prohibited from July 1 through Oct. 31. Blue land crabs can be caught by ...