Includes cooking tips and dozens of crab recipes. A good book packed with lots of useful information. Although it is only nine miles from the mainland, its 150 watermen and their families live much as their ancestors did 300 years ago, exquisitely attuned to the habits of blue crab, oyster, and waterfowl, knowing that on any given day their lives literally depend on which way the wind is blowing. Tom Horton spent nearly three years on Smith Island. An Island out of Time gives us an intimate portrait of a deeply traditional community that is on the verge of vanishing.
Lively illustrations add an amusing twist to the wealth of detail.
But the outrage of the intended victims will go unnoticed beside the delight of the lucky pot fisherman who can turn the author's years of experience to advantage. These questions and many more are answered in Successful Grabbing. Successful Crabbing starts, logically, by detailing the entire life cycle of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, which primarily inhabits Atlantic coastal bays and estuaries from Canada to Argentina. Illustrations of the blue crab in its various stages of growth accompany the text. Songs, poetry, essays, and interviews express their feelings and ideas about living and working on the Chesapeake Bay.