Virginia state regulators removed an important protection for the blue crab Tuesday when they narrowly approved reopening the winter season after a 15-year closure, subjecting the vulnerable and ...

Did you go crabbing in New Jersey and catch a jimmy? If you didn’t, you’re going to want to keep crabbing. The term jimmy refers to a male blue crab. Jimmies are generally considered to be a good size ...

Perhaps one of the last commercially important species that is still harvested from the St. Johns River is the blue crab. According to the St Johns River Report, over 1.2 million pounds valued at $3.1 ...

Louisiana's rich wetlands provide a bounty of delicious seafood, and blue crabs are among the crown jewels. Found in the warm, brackish waters of Lake Pontchartrain and other points where the fishing ...

We recently talked a lot about blue crabs but didn't talk about those who prefer to eat them instead of cut them up for bait. Well, here you go.

George Turner phoned last week to say he'd caught the biggest crab he'd seen in 46 years of crabbing the Severn River. "It was every bit of nine inches across the back," said the real estate man, who ...

Crabbing may not be the most glamorous type of sportfishing today, but it’s one with a long tradition in North America. And, especially along the Texas Gulf Coast, it’s still a popular way to spend ...

Some years on Lake Pontchartrain, the crabbing is so good, you'd likely lose your toes if you fell overboard. You look around and wonder why Capt. Sig hasn't relocated the Northwestern from the Bering ...

One muggy morning in 1932, a 33-year-old Maryland real estate man named Sterling Grover Harris (who had made a good thing of buying Eastern Shore lands from farmers, reselling to rich Northerners) ...