How to Know if the Steamed Crabs and Crab Cakes You're Eating are Really from Maryland
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ABC 2 News] Catherine Hawley - September 21, 2017
BALTIMORE - It's been suspected for years. The Maryland crabs on area menus might not come from the Chesapeake Bay.
"The majority of the crabs in Maryland are coming out of primarily North Carolina and Louisiana and Texas,” said Lee Carrion with Coveside Crabs. “And then they're brought into the state, sold to like crab houses or middle men that sell them steamed to take home, and they're labeled as Maryland."
Carrion is a member of the Maryland Seafood Marketing Advisory Commission. She says these less expensive, imposter crustaceans drive down the price for real Maryland blue ...
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