Running the Numbers

Despite a recent drop in hard crab harvests (top graph) and sales (bottom graph), soft-shelled crab production has remained small but steady over the past decade and the dollar value of soft shells is on the rise.

Maryland soft shells are eaten in Iowa and California,
and they are eaten in January as well as July.

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