The crabs are great. They come up the pontoons over where the free
divers clean their fish to check out the cleanup...(c; The free
divers always feed 'em dumping all the guts and stuff back into the
river. Best crabbin' in the neighborhood right under that cleaning
sink.

The crabbers whos traps are out in the river will sell them to you out
of the boat for $3/pound, here. At $200/pound, it'd be a tidy
business to buy 'em in Charleston and truck them to Maryland! I'll
tell the boys in the boat next time I see them....(c;

The shrimper at the roadside truck is getting $2.50/pound, heads on.
(Great boiled peanuts for $1.25/pound, too!).....



On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 08:35:17 -0400, Joe Wood
wrote:



Larry W4CSC wrote:


Y'all boys stop by.....We'll drop the crab trap off the end of the
finger pier and have some lunch. What do live blue crabs sell for in
Manhattan?....?? Damned things are crawlin' up the pontoons on the
docks, here.


Here in Maryland the crabs are scarce. They're getting $200 a bushel
for non-Bay crabs and $32 a pound for picked crab meat.

As for the crabs climbing up the pontoons. You may be having a dead sea
condition where the algae uses up all the dissolved oxygen. that is
unless you're just funnin' us. We've had several large fish kills here
on the bay this year and instances of the crabs coming out of the water
gasping for air.

See: http://www.cbf.org

Joe Wood


Larry

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