Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blue crabs are abundant all along the Jersey coast, in tidal creeks and rivers and in shallow, saltwater bays, from the Hudson ...

This week, WTOP takes you from the bottom of the bay to the picnic table in our four-part series Claws and Effect: The murky future of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab. Listen on air and read it online.

WHAT SMELLS REMIND YOU of childhood summers? The sulfury smoke of a sparkler that just burned out? The nostril-stinging water at the public pool, loaded with enough chlorine to strip paint? Maybe it’s ...

A recent Maryland trip taught me how essential blue crabs are in the Old Line State. On the chalkboard menu at Crabtowne USA, a fantastic sports bar in the Baltimore suburb of Glen Burnie, a dozen ...