| Blue crabs are actually fairly rare. There are some in the Gulf, mostly harvested in Louisiana, but there is reason for Maryland, and especially the Bay, to be identified with them, as Maine is with lobster. Dungeness crabs, found in California, are quite inferior, coarser and less flavorful. By the way, did you know that there is lobster up and down the East Coast, but in Florida they are the size of crawfish. As you move north, they get bigger. Delmarva lobsters, over by the ocean shore, get fairly large, but their tails, where all the meat is, do not exceed a half a pound with the shell. By the time you get to Maine, tails are at a pound and a half. |
