NPR's Frank Langfitt tries his hand at catching crabs on the Chesapeake Bay. Maryland has more than 5,000 commercial licenses, but tens of thousands more crab for fun.

This was the third year of California-sponsored trials for the equipment used to catch Dungeness crabs while avoiding whale entanglements. Ropeless fishing gear is proving effective at avoiding whale ...

Ever since Deadliest Catch debuted on the Discovery Channel in April 2005, the series has seen some of the wildest, most treacherous real-life moments in television history, part and parcel of the ...

That means you might start to spot blue land crabs around this time of year as the female crabs venture out to sea to release their eggs, a time period called spawning season that lasts from June to ...