Their mission: to conduct the annual blue crab winter dredge survey, a critical effort to estimate the population of Maryland’s state crustacean in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.

Maryland's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is enlisting the help of charter boat captains and commercial watermen in a ...

I’ve been eating Chesapeake Bay Maryland blue crab all my life, and this was an experiment I’m so glad I tried! This simple ...

Maryland Natural Resource officials are launching two pilot programs in an effort to curb the spread of blue catfish in the ...

Maryland’s natural resources department is incentivizing commercial watermen and charter boat captains to capture blue ...

Chesapeake Channa are — and let’s describe them as nicely as we can — a whole lot uglier with a protruding lower jaw, lots of ...

Maryland’s groundbreaking work in mariculture and blue tech has fully restored the Chesapeake Bay’s oyster and blue crab populations, revitalizing the state’s fishing industry. Fresh, affordable ...

A new study by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources confirms the negative impact Chesapeake Channa has on other fish ...

The most popular seafood dish by and far is Maryland crab. This famous crab is the blue crab, which resides in the Chesapeake Bay. The blue crab is such a hot commodity that 50% of the country's ...

The northern snakehead fish, now known as the Chesapeake channa, has long been established in the Chesapeake Bay.

Maryland is known for crab, including crab soup, which began as a tomato-based soup and has evolved to a cream of crab soup and the half and half, a mixture of cream of crab soup and Maryland crab ...

Chesapeake Channa adults were first ... the United States more than $100 billion per year. In Maryland, aquatic wildlife like blue crabs and striped bass play important roles in the economy ...