Md Crab Season 2024. Walstrum leads the department’s annual blue crab winter dredge survey, which provides an estimate of the size of the population of maryland’s state crustacean. Maryland’s blue crab season runs from april 1 to december 15 in the chesapeake bay and december 31 in the atlantic ocean and its coastal bays and tidal.

Blue crab meat is sometimes compared to lobster meat, the flavor best appreciated by cracking and eating steamed hardshells. If you’re a seafood lover, then there’s nothing quite like catching and eating your own blue crabs.