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.

Small, fertile, rugged and fueled by an expansive appetite, the species, he says, is “an exemplary invader, a perfect invader ...

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 ...

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

Fresh crabs should feel heavy for their size. You can buy a crab live and boil it yourself; alternatively, ask your fishmonger to kill it for you, or buy it ready-cooked. If buying cooked crabmeat ...

Dungeness crabs part of the animal group called arthropods, making them distantly related to spiders. Arthopods have exoskeletons, hard shells that protect the animals from the enironment or ...