To legally harvest blue crabs in New Jersey, you need to measure the crab from point to point of the carapace (shell). The minimum size requirements are 4-1/2 inches for hard crabs, 3-1/2 inches ...

Soft shell crab is not a unique crab species. In fact, the ones you find on restaurant menus are usually blue crabs. Instead, the soft shell part comes down to timing and when the crabs are caught.

At some point, all crabs enter the soft-shell stage, meaning that while the Atlantic (or Maryland blue crab as its known regionally) is the most common “softie” you’ll see on a menu in ...

Folklore says that just after the first full moon in the month of May, the Chesapeake Bay blue crab sheds its hard shell to grow a bigger one for summer time, leaving a thin and malleable soft ...

According to the St Johns River Report, over 1.2 million pounds valued at $3.1 million of both hard- and soft- shell crabs were taken in 2022. Duval County accounted for just over 500,000 pounds ...

Soft-shell crabs are back on Charleston restaurant menus. Here are the best places to dine on crab in Charleston: Fleet Landing, The Ordinary, 167 Raw & CudaCo.

Shanti described soft-shell crabs as “sweet, plump, juicy, tomalley-laden parts of the beautiful blue crab without the cracking and picking through its hard exoskeleton.” Good Hot Fish's soft ...