Cavers encountered a massive blue crab in a cavern in India, marking the first time the at-risk species had been spotted in ...

Instead, the soft shell part comes down to timing and when the crabs are caught. As they grow, blue crabs (and other species) ...

The life cycle of the blue crabs is amazingly complex. They are crustaceans that have a hard shell of a body, so in order to grow, they must molt, or shed their old shell, enlarge themselves and ...

When a crab begins to outgrow its shell, there is a brief window between moving day and closing day on a hard new shell when ... the Atlantic (or Maryland blue crab as its known regionally ...

Blue crab is one of the state's top 10 seafood ... It can be eaten when its shell is soft or hard and can be trapped year-round. But the best time is from May to November. Stone crab is also ...

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.

Soft-shell season comes around every spring for about two weeks and happens as Atlantic blue crabs molt out of their hard shells when the water's climate and outdoor temperature is just right.

But commercially, fishermen set aside “peelers,” or those blue crabs that are getting ready to shed their hard shells, molt and grow a new one. From there, it’s a matter of watching them ...