Next, it reaches the juvenile stage, as shown in the main image, when it looks like a very small crab but still has little to no hard shell. Finally, it reaches the adult stage, during which its ...

MARATHON, Fla. (AP) — Commercial fishermen in the Florida Keys say their stone crab season looks bleak. ... but fishermen say their harvests since the season's Oct. 15 opening are very small.

That's how small they are. When the oyster is opened, the little crab comes out to see what's happening. ... "We do very occasionally find a small crab in an oyster here.

In 2018, the NOAA-run annual survey revealed the population was booming. “We were looking at the largest amount of small crab” — i.e., young crabs — “in the water that we’ve ever seen ...