Maryland crabs
Old Bay specialty
Maryland crabs are blue crabs harvested from the Chesapeake Bay, prized for their sweet meat and central to the region's cuisine and identity.
They're typically steamed with Old Bay seasoning and eaten communally at crab feasts, where diners crack shells with mallets on newspaper-covered tables.
We're having a Maryland crab boil this weekend.
- commercial fishingHarvesting seafood for profit
- crustaceanAquatic arthropod with exoskeleton
- Delmarva PeninsulaMid-Atlantic coastal land strip
- moltingPeriodic shedding of covering
- Chesapeake BayMid-Atlantic tidal estuary
Old Bay seasoning · marine biology · decapod · sustainable harvesting · exoskeleton · zooplankton