CRAB INDUSTRY OF CHESAPEAKE BAY. ra 
BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD. 
This county has 63 crabbers, but no crab houses; most of the 
persons licensed crab for pleasure or are the proprietors of resorts 
or “‘shores”’ in the vicinity of Baltimore. 
BALTIMORE CITY, MD. 
Baltimore has 33 crabbers, practically all of whom are crabbing 
for sport. There are 38 crab houses which obtain their crabs from 
shipping points down the bay; most of these sell soft and hard 
crabs and meat prepared at points below, Baltimore being the final 
market for a certain proportion of the crabs obtained in the bay. 
There are a few picking houses, some of which remain in operation 
all winter, using crabs which have been dredged in Virginia waters. 
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD. 
This county has 421 crabbers and 9 crab houses, 3 of which pick 
out the meat, closing in the winter. The crabbing grounds are in the 
South and the Severn Rivers and the inlets of the eastern side of the 
county. The scrape is used to some extent here, this being the only 
county on the western shore in which this implement is used. The 
3 picking houses and 1 soft-crab house are located at Annapolis. 
The other 5 crab houses are engaged in shedding crabs and shipping 
living hard crabs, and are located at various small places along the 
eastern side of the county, 1 being at Fairhaven at the southern 
extremity. 
CALVERT COUNTY, MD. 
There are here 92 crabbers and 10 crab houses, 4 or 5 of the latter 
being located at Solomons Island, at the mouth of the Patuxent 
River. There are no picking houses. The main crabbing grounds 
are in the Patuxent River, as the eastern shore of the county has 
few inlets. The main shipping points are Solomons Island and 
Broomes Island, farther up the river, living hard and soft crabs being 
shipped. A very few crabs are shipped from Coves Point on the 
eastern side of the county. 
CHARLES COUNTY, MD. 
This count has 12 ecrabbers and 1 crab house from which are 
shipped live hard and soft crabs. The crabbing grounds are the 
Potomac River. 
ST. MARYS COUNTY, MD. 
There are in this county 270 crabbers and 12 crab houses. Only 
live hard and soft crabs are shipped. The crabbing grounds are 
Patuxent River on the north and the Potomac on the south. Some 
of the persons licensed to operate crab houses in this county reside 
in Crisfield and send run boats to St. Georges Island, on the southern 
side of this county, to take the catch to Crisfield. Some crabs are 
sped out at Millers Wharf on St. Marys Bay and shipped to Baltimore 
y boat. 
