The 2026 Blue Crab Festival is a three-day Memorial Day weekend event in downtown Palatka, Florida. Festivities include live music, food vendors, a water ski show, and a fireworks display over the St.

A federal effort to restrict imported crabmeat could disrupt supply and increase prices for consumers. Most pasteurized crabmeat sold in U.S. stores and restaurants is imported from Southeast Asia and ...

After nearly 15 years as Apple CEO, Tim Cook is stepping down. He will continue to operate in the role until Sept. 1, when he will be replaced by John Ternus, the company's senior vice president of ...

The animal kingdom is full of remarkable abilities, but few are as impressive as the crab’s capacity to regrow limbs. Unlike humans, who must live with permanent limb loss, crabs possess the ...

A crab’s exoskeleton protects it like armor and gives the animal structural support. Without the process of molting, crabs and other crustaceans could not break free of their hard, calcified ...

The Chesapeake Bay's blue crab catch makes for the best loaded crab cakes on the planet. The Maryland crab cake is a contentious dish. Many restaurants pass off their patties as the real deal, but few ...

Each summer for nearly four decades, scientists at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have tethered some baby blue crabs along a Chesapeake Bay tributary. Then they watched, hoping to learn ...

One of blue crabs' biggest threats seems to be members of their own species. Jarek Tuszyński via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 Young blue crabs find refuge from many predators in the mid-salinity ...

CHESAPEAKE BAY - Researchers have published a nearly 40-year study documenting just how prevalent cannibalism is in the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population and how protecting shallow-water habitat ...

In an impressive 37-year-long investigation confirmed that the top—practically only—cause of death for young blue crabs was older crabs from their own species. Reading time 3 minutes Here are two ...

If you picture a juvenile blue crab’s biggest problem as avoiding hungry fish, a new study suggests you’re missing the real threat. In the mid-salinity parts of Chesapeake Bay – where many young crabs ...