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Southern Maryland Drops Season Opener
The Southern Maryland Blue Crabs opened the 2025 Atlantic League season with a 6-4 loss to the High Point Rockers on Friday ...
VENICE — Last summer, while sweating my way through the Rialto fish market, I spotted a familiar sight from my North Carolina upbringing: Atlantic blue crabs, labeled “granchio blu.” ...
Regulators are recommending more seasonal closures and harvest limits to help efforts to rebuild the fishery. Crabbers say ...
Prosecutors said he admitted conspiring with others to substitute foreign crab meat for Atlantic blue crab and, as part of the plea, admitted to falsely labeling more than 183 tons of crab meat, which ...
At the center of the issue is a proposed revision to the state’s Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan. Officials with the N.C.
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.
HILTON HEAD ISLAND — There are a few things to know before the crab traps and nets hit the water this summer. Starting July 1, new laws on blue crab fishery will go into effect in South ...
Atlantic Blue crab - this crab has a blue-brown shell and can grow to 20cm/8in, but is usually sold smaller. When newly 'moulted' (crabs regularly shed their hard shells), the crabs are caught ...
Each spring along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts ... Biomedical companies also harvest horseshoe crabs and drain their blue blood, which is used to detect toxins in drugs and medical devices. Horseshoe ...