Maryland Blue Crabs - Where To Buy?

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CREResident

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I'm about to just give up on Maryland crabs. Do crabbers just sell the larger crabs to restaurants in New York City or something? Where can I buy some decent crabs, preferably Calvert County -- restaurant or carry out.

The prices are ridiculous... the quality stinks... and I mean stink because they are cooking and selling dead crabs. I don't like buying steamed crabs because so many places cook dead crabs and sell them -- it's obvious when I open the crab and it smells like a bottle of Mr. Clean Ammonia floor cleaner.

Used to buy live crabs at Chesapeake Bounty in St. Leonard but their prices are so much higher than the used to be a few years ago. $48 a dozen for Jumbos? I know that's the going price everywhere but who's that rich? All they had last weekend was #2 males that barely had any meat. What people call the larger #1 males, we used to throw back in the water.

Is it possible to successfully catch my own crabs anywhere without a boat?
 
mitzi

mitzi

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CREResident said:
I'm about to just give up on Maryland crabs. Do crabbers just sell the larger crabs to restaurants in New York City or something? Where can I buy some decent crabs, preferably Calvert County -- restaurant or carry out.

The prices are ridiculous... the quality stinks... and I mean stink because they are cooking and selling dead crabs. I don't like buying steamed crabs because so many places cook dead crabs and sell them -- it's obvious when I open the crab and it smells like a bottle of Mr. Clean Ammonia floor cleaner.

Used to buy live crabs at Chesapeake Bounty in St. Leonard but their prices are so much higher than the used to be a few years ago. $48 a dozen for Jumbos? I know that's the going price everywhere but who's that rich? All they had last weekend was #2 males that barely had any meat. What people call the larger #1 males, we used to throw back in the water.

Is it possible to successfully catch my own crabs anywhere without a boat?
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It's way too early in the season for the local crabs.
 
Bay_Kat

Bay_Kat

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Not sure where they came from, but last weekend I got a few dozen blue crabs from a local guy here and they were awesome. I paid about 30 bucks for the 3 dozen I got. They were huge and had a lot of meat. It was just my husband and I and we finished them off with some sweet corn on the cob. Awesome dinner.
 
homedepot20

homedepot20

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Bay_Kat said:
Not sure where they came from, but last weekend I got a few dozen blue crabs from a local guy here and they were awesome. I paid about 30 bucks for the 3 dozen I got. They were huge and had a lot of meat. It was just my husband and I and we finished them off with some sweet corn on the cob. Awesome dinner.
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:howdy: Please find location ! I will drive from NC back to Md for that price anytime
 
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