There's nothing like sharing the love, but officials as far north as North Carolina aren't smiling over the latest invasive species making its way up the East Coast from Florida: blue land crabs.

Georgia officials recently asked for the public's help in spotting non-native blue land crabs. But further down the coast in Florida, officials are accustomed to the spiny ocean crawlers.

South Florida’s stone crab season kicks off this Tuesday, Oct. 15, and despite back-to-back hurricanes barreling through the Gulf of Mexico, early signs point to abundant claws and prices even ...

Blue Land Crabs are native from Brazil to South Florida, according to the Georgia release. In Florida, blue land crab fishing is regulated with a designated season and quantity limits. Georgia's ...

If stone crabs look abundant in the Keys, the crab traps on Florida’s Gulf Coast ... hurling the boats onto land or sinking them. “There’s a good percentage of west coast fishermen ...

The blue land crabs (Cardisoma guanhumi) are found from coastal Brazil to Florida. Up until last year, the crustaceans were rarely found in South Carolina, with only about a dozen reports since ...

Caribbean king crabs occur naturally in the Florida Keys in a population density ... Mote received two grants, $253,654 to establish a land-based coral nursery on Key Largo, as well as purchase ...

There are countless crab traps tethered to originally ... Then there is a must-read for anyone living in Florida in the historical fiction novel "A Land Remembered" by Patrick Smith.

While fall might not actually be a seasonal transition we truly get to enjoy in Florida, we do have our own very special season that gets its start in October—and that’s Stone Crab Season.

These land crabs are very different from the marine blue crabs. Blue land crabs are originally from Central America and parts of south Florida. They recently started expanding north to South Georgia ...