Georgia officials recently asked for the public's help in spotting non-native blue land crabs. But further down the coast in Florida, officials are accustomed to the spiny ocean crawlers.
For the next several hours, they will sweat and grunt as they strain to pull dozens of metal cages from the water hoping they will be filled with Atlantic blue crab. Known for their sweet flavor ...
A 2022 U.S. Department of Agriculture report found that Venezuelan blue crab accounted for 35.8% of the value of that country’s agricultural exports to the United States in 2021. In 2016 ...
Atlantic Blue crab - this crab has a blue-brown shell and can grow to 20cm/8in, but is usually sold smaller. When newly 'moulted' (crabs regularly shed their hard shells), the crabs are caught ...
Carcinization is a captivating type of convergent evolution where five different groups of crustaceans have separately evolved to have crab-like body structures. Evolutionary ...
PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – The Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) voted on Tuesday to reverse their decision to reopen the blue crab winter harvest for the upcoming season. In June ...
Prices of hairy crabs were slashed by merchants and across e-commerce sites and apps as supplies dropped by about 10 per cent this year, according to Chinese media reports. The palm-sized ...
One of the most prominent — and pinchy — ways this manifests is known as carcinization, the idea that nature keeps evolving crabs. Indeed, a crab-like body shape, or morphology, has evolved ...
The Nemuro Peninsula in Hokkaido forms the easternmost tip of Japan. There, the "hanasakigani" blue king crab fishing season is now at its peak, accompanied by the raucous chorus of flocks of ...