Title: Steamed about crab prices?
Milto - July 10, 2010 02:00 AM (GMT)
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Baltimore's steamed crab prices reach new highs
Paying the price
Baltimore Business Journal - by Emily Mullin Staff
Customers don’t seem too crabby about this season’s steep seafood prices.
Crab prices have never been higher in Baltimore, and while some customers are willing to shell out $60, $70 or $80 for a dozen steamed crabs, many Marylanders might not be able to afford the state’s favorite seafood this season.
Rob Cernak, owner of Obrycki’s Crab House, said that’s why he has held off raising prices this season at his famed East Baltimore restaurant. He is charging $59 for a dozen large crabs, the same as last year.
“We feel that if you price yourself out of the market, then you’re not going to get any customers,” Cernak said.
Read more: Baltimore's steamed crab prices reach new highs - Baltimore Business Journal
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Career200 - July 12, 2010 12:36 PM (GMT)
I had heard this past spring that the crab population was rebounding in the Chesapeake, so I figured that might represent a decline in crab prices. Wrong.
Haven't been out for crabs yet this year, but it's good to know I'll need to work some overtime before I do.
Jay - July 12, 2010 01:38 PM (GMT)
My girlfriend and I will be in Baltimore next weekend, and we're stoked about getting our crab on. If I have to shell out a little more money, so be it.
Bark - July 12, 2010 07:45 PM (GMT)
I bought 1/2 a bushel (3.5 dozen) for $99 on Father's Day. That is $10 more than it was last father's day.
If they would leave the crabs alone for one year, there would be a ton more of them and lower prices for everyone. Of course that would put the crab fishermen out of work for a whole year and yadda yadda.
Milto - July 12, 2010 10:07 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Bark @ Jul 12 2010, 02:45 PM) |
I bought 1/2 a bushel (3.5 dozen) for $99 on Father's Day. That is $10 more than it was last father's day.
If they would leave the crabs alone for one year, there would be a ton more of them and lower prices for everyone. Of course that would put the crab fishermen out of work for a whole year and yadda yadda. |
Evidently that won't be necessary, Bark.
I thought I had heard they were having a good year. Here's an article from April.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...0041404996.html stanhouse - July 13, 2010 01:06 AM (GMT)
I sliced the crap out of my thumb on a hard crab shell last Thursday.
Damn Natty Boh!
Bark - July 13, 2010 11:54 AM (GMT)
That is great news! Hopefully next year we will see $30 - $40 dozens again.
Skipjack - July 13, 2010 05:26 PM (GMT)
If you are going to Bunting Avenue in Fenwick from Rehoboth Beach (where a dozen crabs goes for $79, they were cheaper under Bush) in search of crabs and you turned left on E. Dagsboro then on to Bunting and drove south, toward Ocean City, you would think that Bunting Avenue ended at E. Atlantic at what looks like a parking area for beach access but which actually cleverly conceals another access to Bunting Avenue less than a throw to first from what looked like the end of Bunting Ave.
I didn't find any cheap crabs there nor did I find a friend's house which I was in search of. Embarrassing, no?
