blue crabs
Maryland seafood specialty
Blue crabs are swimming crabs prized as seafood, named for their blue-green shell and blue claws.
Native to the Atlantic coast of the Americas, they're central to Chesapeake Bay cuisine—steamed with Old Bay seasoning, picked for crab cakes, or served as soft-shell crabs just after molting.
We bought a bushel of blue crabs for the cookout.
- MarylandMid-Atlantic U.S. state
- watermenMaritime laborers by trade
- Chesapeake BayMid-Atlantic tidal estuary
- Old BayRegional seafood spice blend
- pincerGrasping claw organ
steamed · Jimmy · exoskeleton · sook · doubler · Delmarva Peninsula · carapace · crustacean · shellfish · claws · molt · decapod · picking · soft shell · hard shell · brackish water · estuaries · gills
- Chesapeake historyChesapeake Bay, watermen, oystering, skipjacks, maritime heritage
- Texas CoastGalveston, Gulf of Mexico, barrier islands, coastal erosion, storm surge
- crustaceanscrabs, prawn, lobster, lobsters, shrimp
- Chesapeake BayChesapeake Bay, watermen, oyster, crabs, steamed crabs
- Chesapeake seafoodsteamed crabs, Old Bay, Old Bay seasoning, softshell, jimmies
- Gulf CoastGulf of Mexico, Gulfport, Gulf beaches, Gulf Stream, Alabama
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Large edible sea crustaceans
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Large edible spider-shaped crustacean
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