At summertime backyard feasts, crab shells are just a barrier between hunger and satisfaction. Marylanders smash the crustaceans’ protective casings with wooden mallets, pick out the tasty meat and ...

Steve Phillips’ family has been a part of the seafood industry for 100 years since the establishment of the AE Phillips & Son seafood processing plant on the Chesapeake Bay in 1914. Phillips grew up ...

EDMONDS — When a seafood processing plant in Alaska shut down in the middle of crabbing season, fishermen found themselves in a pinch. Under the state’s quota system, harvesters can only catch a set ...

Jack Brooks’ family has been in the Maryland blue crab business on the Eastern Shore since 1890, running what they say is the oldest working crab-processing plant in the world. But even as he hands ...

FISHING CREEK, Md. (AP) — Because would-be crab pickers haven't been able to get temporary visas, many crab processing plants in Dorchester County are expected to stay closed when the season opens on ...

Newfoundland and Labrador's roughly one dozen snow crab processing companies are burning the candle at both ends to handle the recent season extensions granted by Canada's Department of Fisheries and ...