How will the female fiddler crab pick a mate? By the quality of his lodging, the allure of his wave—and, especially, the size of his claw. The female fiddler crab has two small, symmetrical ...

The rarity of blue crab roe can make the dish prohibitively ... But you can make your she-crab soup even more budget-friendly ...

Climate migrants can also benefit fisheries. My lab studies the blue crab, famous in the Chesapeake Bay, which generated over US$200 million in dockside landings in 2022. Now that blue crabs are ...

Sam Sewall, the co-founder of Shell + Claw in York, stacks a trap to harvest green crabs, an invasive species now present in the Gulf of Maine. The species are safe to eat, and Masi and Sewall ...

And with warming water comes warm-water species. Maryland blue crab and black sea bass, both southern species, are now being caught in Maine lobster traps. And fiddler crabs, whose charismatic males ...