Maryland and Virginia have released the results of the 2025 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey, showing decreased but stable populations of the crustaceans.

The 2022 commercial harvest turned out better than expected, despite the bleak survey results and the tightened crabbing rules. Baywide, watermen landed 42.1 million pounds of crabs last year, 15% ...

The term jimmy refers to a male blue crab. Jimmies are generally considered to be a good size for eating, often having a generous amount of meat, including jumbo, lump, and claw meat.

Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten, according to a new study. The males have evolved to use a venom called ...

Together, a dark-hued male crab spider and a larger, paler female resemble a flower, in what researchers suspect is the first case of cooperative mimicry By Gennaro Tomma 22 March 2024 ...

Bowie is half-red, half-blue; half-male, half-female; and all kinds of rare. A bicolored lobster is a 1 in 50 million occurrence, according to New England Aquarium biologist Jordan Baker.

Only 133 million female blue crabs were estimated this year. The survey is conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science.

What is known, according to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, is that one female blue crab will produce between 800,000 and 8 million eggs annually.