It began when a local fisherman reported a new kind of crustacean showing up in his traps, said rising senior Reuben Siegel. ...

Blue crab populations in Maryland and Virginia's Chesapeake Bay are seeing an increase, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources reports.

If you've never cooked fresh blue crabs, it might seem a bit intimidating. But, it's actually not very hard at all—and the sweet crabmeat is well worth a little bit of manual labor. Found all along ...

Blue crab is widely considered to be the official food of Maryland, but there's one part of the blue crab you might want to ...

One of blue crabs' biggest threats seems to be members of their own species. Jarek Tuszyński via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 Young blue crabs find refuge from many predators in the mid-salinity ...

There are plenty crab-based soups out there - she crab soup, crab bisque, and the Maryland version, to name a few - but that ...