Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crab being measured during the 2023 Bay-wide Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey. (Photo courtesy of Kenny Fletcher/Chesapeake Bay ...

After half a decade of worryingly low numbers, the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population appears to be fighting its way out of a slump. This year's field sampling estimated a total population of 349 ...

The Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population increased significantly in 2026, according to the annual winter dredge survey conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Virginia ...

The Chesapeake Bay blue crab population has shown signs of improvement after last year’s historic lows, but there’s still cause for concern, according to the 2023 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey ...

The Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Maryland Department of Natural Resources conduct an annual survey of the population of blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Covering more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The annual winter dredge survey by Maryland and Virginia said there are an estimated 317 million blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay ...

AVAILABLE. HEADING INTO THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, CRAB HOUSES ARE BUSY WITH PEOPLE PLACING ORDERS. YOU MIGHT WANT TO GET YOURS IN NOW. SOME BIG, HEAVY MARYLAND CRABS, BIG AS TWO. I FOUND THIS MORNING ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Virginia is paying for a scientific study to determine how harmful dredging for blue crabs in the Chesapeake Bay may be to the ecosystem and crab population. State regulators ...