like blue crabs, in that they don’t have a uniformly hard exoskeleton and can’t grow their own shells. Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a ...

While blue crabs can be found up and down the Atlantic ... much they've molted by the time they're harvested and sold. Hard shell crabs are usually best steamed, cracked open, and eaten as-is.

This summer, Trevisan notes, large hard-shell blue crabs cost the equivalent of about $2.50 a pound, and most of the crabs are bigger because they’re thriving in the waters in Venice.

I think it is safe to say that of the seafood varieties available to the Louisiana cook, crab holds first place by a mile.

soft-shell “peeler” crabs, or past overharvesting of clams and the subsequent loss of their water-cleansing ability. Fueling the uncertainty for both blue and stone crabs: a big portion of the ...