This summer, Trevisan notes, large hard-shell blue crabs cost the equivalent of about $2.50 a pound, and most of the crabs are bigger because they’re thriving in the waters in Venice.

like blue crabs, in that they don’t have a uniformly hard exoskeleton and can’t grow their own shells. Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a ...

From CoastalReview.org A proposal to limit commercial fishers’ harvest of blue crabs treads rough waters after advisory ...

Whether we’re in a wood-paneled crab house or piled around a backyard picnic table, these messy communal gatherings get kicked off by one moment: a pile of seasoning-crusted hard-shell crabs ...