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Seafood industry insiders tell Inside Edition that some Baltimore, Maryland restaurants are serving a mish-mash of crab meat imported from overseas to cut costs on their crab cakes.

To tease out the evolutionary connections among crab species, Cliff Cunningham of Duke University in Durham, N.C., and his coworkers obtained DNA from 26 decapod crustaceans, including crab ...

Order crab cakes in a DC or Maryland restaurant, and there’s a good chance you’ll eat foreign crab. Oceana, a non-profit environmental advocacy group, spent the 2014 local crab season conducting DNA ...

BLYN — The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of Puget Sound’s Dungeness crab by studying the DNA of both larvae and ...

Oceana used DNA testing for a 2015 study into the mislabeling of Chesapeake Blue Crab. Testers can tell which region of the world a crab is from by surveying the meat.

For example, taking water samples and testing for green crab DNA in remote locations -- or in areas where outbreaks haven't yet been identified ...

Imitation crab is a popular ingredient in dishes like seafood salads, crab cakes, or California sushi rolls. ... 25% listed a fish species different from that identified by DNA analysis.