New Jersey’s blue claw crab season for both soft and hard crabs is ongoing, with specific regulations and size limits. Soft shell blue claw crabs must be at least 3.5 inches from point to point and ...

A drop-off in the harvest of soft shell crabs and peeler crabs in the Chesapeake Bay was today declared a "commercial fishery failure" by U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez. The declaration ...

It is November, and Jim Berthe would like to be taking advantage of the crab migration to the waters off Southern Maryland. Instead, he and other watermen from the area have been forced this year to ...