Gov. Terry McAuliffe Says All Maryland Crabs Are Born in Virginia - Turns Out He's Mostly Right
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Richmond Times-Dispatch] By Warren Fiske - July 30, 2015 -
Maryland crabs, Maryland crab cakes, Maryland crab soup...Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says it’s all a sham.
"You know, Maryland talks about its crabs," McAuliffe said with a chuckle during a July 21 radio interview. "If anyone from Maryland is listening, I want to make this perfectly clear: All the crabs are born here in Virginia and they end up, because of the current, being taken (to Maryland). So really, they should be Virginia crabs."
We turned to Romuald Lipcius, a professor at Virginia Institute of Marine Science. He told us the moment of conception and birth -- which Lipcius says are interchangeable terms in the crab world -- almost always occur in Virginia. "The bottom line is that the governor is essentially correct," he said.
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