Chesapeake Bay crabbers fishing for a brighter future
Friday, August 19, 2011 - 00:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Maryland watermen have been engaging in talks to figure out how to deal with lower dockside prices and a market flooded with cheap, imported crabmeat.Six days a week, in all kinds of weather, except lightning and high winds, waterman Billy Rice and his wife, Melinda, spend their mornings pulling crab pots from the Potomac River. Crabbing has been this way for decades.