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Article: Crab gate; The fall of an American icon: the waterman.(crab industry in Maryland)
- Article from:
- Art Culinaire
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Crisfield Maryland, population 2,880. They work in eight-hour shifts, seven days a week, They fight the weather, the sea nettles, and those pesky jellyfish that work their way into the crabpots and can sting--hard. And now the watermen have even more to contend with. Recent governmental regulations, the emergence of early crabs in Florida, and the availability of soft-shell overseas, are taking the men and women who work the waters of the Chesapeake Bay out of the water and putting them out of business.
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5:30a.m. Somers Cove Marina: This is a large protected harbor at the southern tip of Maryland's Eastern shore. It's located ...