It’s a crab-eat-crab world for the Chesapeake Bay’s juvenile blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus). Literally. Cannibalism is the ...

Young blue crabs face their biggest threat from their own kind, but shallow water can provide a crucial refuge from cannibalism.

The researchers found that the smallest crabs were the most vulnerable, and more than twice as likely to get eaten compared ...

This story was originally produced by the New Hampshire Bulletin, an independent local newsroom that allows NHPR and other outlets to republish its reporting. David Johnson had been working in the ...

Much of the conversation about green crabs as a culinary opportunity comes out of New England where they have dealt with the invasion for much longer than we have here in Washington. Scientists and ...

In 2021, blue crab landings in South Carolina reached a 50-year low. This was no surprise. Commercial and recreational crabbers have long complained about dwindling catches. For two decades, ...