The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say this won't ...

The male population was at its lowest ever recorded number this year -- with 26 million jimmies surveyed in Chesapeake Bay.

Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the ...

To protect blue crabs, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission should close the winter fishing period, Virginia leaders of four environmental and fishing groups write in a guest column.

The Virginia Marine Resources Commission maintained existing regulations, which ban catching blue crabs during winter months.

Juvenile, adult female and adult male crab population segments impact how scientists and policy managers evaluate the success of human interventions.

The estimated number of spawning age female crabs decreased from 133 million in 2024 to 108 million in 2025. The number of adult male crabs decreased from 46 million in 2024 to 26 million in 2025.

After a rebound last year from a rock bottom count the year before, the number of blue crabs estimated in the Chesapeake Bay held fairly steady, according to this year’s winter survey.

New state laws are now taking effect for South Carolina’s blue crab industry, and some local commercial crabbers spoke about ...

David N. Fisher's April 19 letter on the decline of blue crabs offered a simple and doable solution: protect the female blue crabs. It won the Golden Pen Award.

They said adult male crabs typically are blue, but adult female blue land crabs can be white or gray.