TANGIER SOUND, Md. — Dwight Marshall hoists his crab pot onto the deck of the Miss Marshall and opens the hatch. Inside are half a dozen jellyfish, a few blades of grass and four scurrying peeler ...

And the bait that they use in a peeler pot is actually a large male crab,” Bell said. The male crab serves as the bait announcing his presence in the trap, luring the female crabs into the peeler trap ...

DNA tests of the Casey’s Seafood labeled as being from the Cheseapeake Bay actually contained “distressed” crabmeat from other areas of the world, including Indonesia and South America. McClatchy ...

A drop-off in the harvest of soft shell crabs and peeler crabs in the Chesapeake Bay was today declared a "commercial fishery failure" by U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez. The declaration ...

To enjoy the soft crab sandwich at White Point Take-Out, you’ve got to follow U.S. 70 so far that it dead-ends in the Core Sound marsh – a spot so remote that egrets fish along the highway’s shoulder ...