The Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) voted to lift a ban on dredging for blue crabs in the winter in a 5-4 vote on Tuesday. The process, which involves towing a “half-inch nylon mesh liner” ...

EASTON, Md. -- There was a time when almost every town on the Eastern Shore had a crab-picking house, where men, women and children earned a few dollars by tearing apart Chesapeake Bay blue crabs to ...

This week, WTOP takes you from the bottom of the bay to the picnic table in our four-part series Claws and Effect: The murky future of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab. Listen on air and read it online.

One muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) ...

RICHMOND — The commercial harvest of blue crabs has been extended in Virginia as the crab population trends upward. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted last week to approve the extension ...

Every summer, people flock to Maryland to eat blue crabs. Named for their brilliant sapphire-colored claws, blue crab is one of the most iconic species in the Chesapeake Bay. The scientific name for ...

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, ...

They are an iconic sight and calling card for the North Carolina coast, popular with children to try and catch and adults to eat. But like the state's oysters and flounder fisheries, blue crabs in the ...

Talk of the “invaders” started in the early spring. Along Italy’s northern Adriatic coast and in Tuscan fish farms workers were pulling up their nets and finding them chewed to threads. Then they ...

Louisiana's rich wetlands provide a bounty of delicious seafood, and blue crabs are among the crown jewels. Found in the warm, brackish waters of Lake Pontchartrain and other points where the fishing ...