All this week we’ve brought you the series “Claws and Effect,” a deep dive on the crabs of the Chesapeake Bay, taking a look at crabs and the crab industry in its present iteration and in the future.

Surrounded by waving seagrass, salt flats, white ibis, and murky swamps, Highway 41 (known as Tamiami Trail) was the original Alligator Alley and the one way into Florida's Everglades City. The ...

It’s Grant Phelan’s favorite time of the year. And for good reason. Stone crab season kicked off Wednesday, Oct. 15, and will be here for another shell-cracking 6½ months. “Stone crabs are here, the ...

Stone crab season in Southwest Florida begins on October 15 and lasts for over six months. Collier County is known as the "Stone Crab Capital of the World," and the claws are a renewable resource.