SC - crab prices
LadyEbonSwan at aol.com
LadyEbonSwan at aol.com
Wed Jan 10 15:56:00 PST 2001
In a message dated 1/10/01 2:48:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
nishamartin at yahoo.com writes:
<< I was told last year that crab prices would be
outrageous this year and probably next year as well.
Too much overfishing, and the people who regulate that
kind of thing have drastically limited the number of
crabs and areas where they can be caught. They need a
year or two to recover from the over fishing. >>
This summer, a dozen smalls at Rehoboth Beach (Del) was running for about
$40, so yeah, those prices sound about right. Locals told us that they
couldn't go crabbing much anymore, because there's just nothing there
anymore. Delaware really restricted their crabbing in the last few years, so
we haven't had much in the way of crab feasts in a while. I remember when my
(now) father in law would get five or six bushels of crabs from Ed's (or
another guy, whose name is escaping me; he was out by Joppa, Md) and bring
'em back here to Greensburg, and we'd have a neighborhood crab
feast...::sigh:: I miss those days.
Siobhan MacDermott
..who now has a screaming seafood craving
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