Stone crab claws are shown in this 2024 photo in Tarpon Springs. The creatures recently have been found in Chesapeake Bay for the first time. ©Douglas R. Clifford Over the summer, crabbers in ...

SEATTLE — Researchers are waging a quiet battle in the Pacific Northwest to protect one of the region’s most iconic species — the Dungeness crab. Using light traps, scientists at the MaST Center ...

BLYN — The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of Puget Sound’s Dungeness crab by studying the DNA of both larvae and ...

GLOUCESTER — The Chesapeake Bay might have a new resident, thanks to warming waters and successful habitat restoration. Blue crabs are the typical catch in local waters. But crabbers on the bay have ...

"This is the first documented instance of stone crabs now being able to live inside of Chesapeake Bay," said marine biologist Romuald Lipcius, of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, William & ...

Over the summer, crabbers in Chesapeake Bay pulled up four funny looking creatures. They were not the bay’s normal, skinny blue crabs, but instead, chunky stone crabs, the delectable crustaceans whose ...