As a crab grows, its shell can't grow with it, so it has to molt its shell to accommodate its changing size. When a crab is molting its shell, for about four days, the crustacean is known as a ...

The price of hard shell crabs is high as the season starts because the crab population is dropping in the Chesapeake Bay. (Sue Gleiter, PennLive.com) If you plan on cracking Maryland hard shell ...

Horseshoe crabs are a passion for him and other scientists alarmed at their rapid depletion in other parts of the world. They’re working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen to the North ...

What is a soft-shell crab? It's an ordinary blue crab that has shed its hard outer shell during the normal process of seasonal growth. The crabs have an entirely different taste when they are in ...

Learning to eat steamed blue crabs is not hard, but there are right and wrong ways to do it. The internet is full of videos of doing it correctly, and it’s worth the effort to watch before ...

The value of hard-shell blue crabs sold to seafood dealers plunged to $17.8 million last year, $3 million less than in 2016 and $12 million less than what it was three years ago.

If you love crab, I'll bet your mouth is already watering. Yes, friends – soft shell crab season has begun! From early May through the beginning of September, blue crabs from the Chesapeake area ...

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 ...

What is a soft-shell crab? It's an ordinary blue crab that has shed its hard outer shell during the normal process of seasonal growth. The crabs have an entirely different taste when they are in ...