Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the ...

Jan. 26, 2001 -- When the chill of winter moves down from the north, female blue crabs of the Chesapeake Bay head for the salty waters near the mouth of the estuary to spawn the next generation of ...

The blue crab population in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay is among the lowest it's been in 35 years, but watermen say this won't ...

A Chesapeake Bay Foundation educator examines two female blue crabs with egg sponges caught in a trawl net in the Lynnhaven River on an educational field experience with Ocean Lakes High School ...