The Chesapeake Bay blue crab season officially opens on April 1, 2025, ushering in a beloved Maryland tradition that runs ...

If you’re a seasoned crabber or thinking of trying your hand at it, here are some things to know from the Maryland Department ...

The 2024 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey assessing the Chesapeake Bay has been released, and it's drawing some mixed reactions. While noting improvements from the 33-year low, the Chesapeake Bay ...

Blue catfish are wreaking havoc on native species in the Chesapeake Bay. To reduce the damage, environmentalists want to encourage more restaurants to add the whiskered predator to their menus.

"We the people that live in the Chesapeake watershed mainly ... the more feisty --- and active --- are the blue crabs for which the bay is famous. Pierce loves his work -- and is good at it.

Proposed limits on the commercial harvest of blue crabs faces critics who say the management plan amendment is based on a ...

The study, led by Ries and co-authored with Anne Cohen and Daniel McCorkle, and found that crabs, lobsters and shrimp grew bigger more rapidly as carbon pollution increased. Chesapeake blue crabs ...

A proposal to keep diamondback terrapins from drowning when trapped in Chesapeake Bay crab pots is sparking angry objections ...

Maryland (27-8) is more dependent on its starting lineup than any team in the nation. The nickname mashes up the Fab Five — made famous in the early 1990s at Michigan — and crabs, which are synonymous ...

“And when you open up the bellies on these catfish, you see 20, 30, 40 crabs in the belly at one time. So how many times a day are they doing that?” Blue catfish, unlike most other Chesapeake ...