Biologist are working to grow and harvest blue crabs from freshwater ponds, instead of from the sea. Work by researchers at North Carolina State University is leading to a new kind of crab harvest – ...

There are four species of mud crab, Scylla serrata, S. tranquebarica, S. paramamosain and S. olivacea that are the focus of both commercial fisheries and aquaculture production throughout their ...

Professor Jeff Shields and colleagues at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science have succeeded in their 15-year effort to unravel the life history of Hematodinium, a single-celled parasite that ...

Pinpointing urine compounds for the first time that make mud crabs hide for their lives, if blue crabs pee nearby, opens new doors to understanding how chemicals invisibly regulate marine wildlife.

An assessment of the NT's two mud crab fisheries has found the abundance of crabs in the Arafura West region has fallen below a trigger point. Both fisheries will soon be closed for three months. The ...

Conservation groups are preparing to sue the state Department of Natural Resources and a Charleston medical laboratory as the next phase in a quest to protect horseshoe crabs and migratory birds in ...