Regulators are recommending more seasonal closures and harvest limits to help efforts to rebuild the fishery. Crabbers say ...

My concern is that uninformed readers of the article may conclude it’s OK to use wild-caught crab roe in their homemade soup. It is not OK. It is against the law to catch and keep female blue ...

At the center of the issue is a proposed revision to the state’s Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan. Officials with the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) say catch numbers have been falling for ...

These crustaceans have been misnamed for two reasons: First, they’re not true crabs, like blue crabs ... male can transfer a sperm packet to the female, which fertilizes her eggs.