It may well be the world's largest blue crab, and it is right here in the Coastal Bend, in the city of Rockport. The crab recently went through quite a makeover, but it's now on display. It's a piece ...

As the weather warms and summer nears, more of us will buy old turkey necks, some line or pots and head toward a coastal creek to try to catch enough blue crabs for cakes, dip, soup and other ...

AWENDAW — Some seafood lovers in Awendaw gathered 25 years ago for a blue crab boil in their own neighborhood for the sake of enjoying some good food and good company. Little did they know, it would ...

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 ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population has recovered somewhat from last year’s low ebb, new data show, but not enough to dispel worries about the future of the region’s most valuable commercial ...

Imagine a ghost crab combined with a fiddler crab. Now imagine that hybrid on steroids, like the performance-enhancing drugs used by professional baseball players in the 1990s. That image effectively ...

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 ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — With July 4 weekend coming up, many might have plans to head to the beach, to enjoy some Maryland crabs. But a recent survey indicates that there may be fewer of these crabs available ...

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) ...