What is a hermit crab? There are over 800 species of hermit ... they’re not true crabs, like blue crabs, in that they don’t have a uniformly hard exoskeleton and can’t grow their own shells.

The year-over-year-change is slight, 317 million blue crabs were counted this year compared to 323 million in 2023, according to the annual Winter Dredge Survey survey. But blue crab numbers are ...