Maryland Crab Season is here!
Place your orders early for Memorial Day Weekend!
Quality Crabs Delivered to your door, UPS Overnight Express. "Comparing apples to apples, size to size, delivery included, we are the lowest priced vendor online. That is my promise." and "having our own fleet of boats, and dedicated crabbers, allows us to price beat anyone" Captain Don
Hear it from our Customers:
"The crabs arrived in perfect condition, were wonderfully spiced and were absolutely delectable! I have told all my friends who moved away from Maryland about MdCrabbers.com, and how you've taken away the fear of mail order crabs. Thanks for your great service and for helping to satisfy the crab craving that native Marylanders experience!!"
Linda Swago (Atlanta, GA - Sept 13, 2010)
Greetings from the Heartland,
I am late in writing you all, thanking you for the wonderful crabs for my grandfather's 95th birthday! He has such fond memories of MD and going crabbing when he was a young man. I researched lots of different companies and finally settled on you guys for my order. I have to say your website and prices were encouraging, but I was still a little nervous when thinking of delivering fresh (hopefully alive) blue crabs from MD all the way to Nebraska. They arrived on time, cold and wiggling!
Also I have to commend your shipping folks. We live in the middle of nowhere, literally. Our address doesn't come up on any of the big search engines like google maps. Even our own GPS program in our car can't find us, we drive off into empty green when we drive home. So when I missed your repeated calls looking for some kind of help with our address you all took matters into your own hands and called the local post office. Thanks for going the extra mile!
I also want to thank you for the wonderful surprise of the container of claw meat included with our crab. My grandfather was over the moon. What a special treat for his birthday.
It was such a memorable day and an amazing celebration and I feel like you all were a part of it. I am including some picture of the great day.
Kathy Bokenkamp - (Kearney, NE - Sept 6, 2010)
Information on How Crabs are caught and prepared
Here at Mdcrabbers, 90% of our crabs are caught via trotline versus the conventional wire potted traps. Trotline crabs have proven to yield much stronger, lively and healthy crabs, because crabs caught are never trapped inside wired crab cages for days on end, often weakening if not killing the crabs within hours once placed into bushel baskets. The method of trotline is the method of catching crabs using a long line with bait attached to the line at 3 to 7 foot intervals. The trotlines used are dropped into a river or channel where it sinks to the bottom surface of the river or channel (by anchors), where crabs can then swim up to the bait (clams) placed inside nets attached to the lines. Our crabbers would then travel up and down the line, up to 10,000 feet in length from end to end and scoop up the crabs, one by one as the boat lifts the line above water as it passes each bait along the length of the line. Our crabbers move up and down the line up to 40 times per day to pluck each crab out of the water using a fish net handle. This process is done by hand by 1 crabbber per boat. Once scooped and placed into holding containers on the boat, the crabs are then hand sorted and measured to size and gender by another crabber. The crabs are then graded into bushel baskets of #1's, Jumbos, #2's and #3's ready to be sold to you, a distributor, or crab house in the local DE, MD, VA areas.
Each boat can bring in as little as 2 bushels and as high as 7 bushesl per day with 7 bushels being a great day for an 18 to 26 foot commercial boat. Starting from 2 AM and ending at 3 PM daily (with actual crabbing hours being from 5:18 AM to 3PM), that is the amout of time each crabber puts forth to catch the crabs, not including any time for baiting each line each day, which can take an additional 2 to 4 hours. Our crabbers shield their crabs from the sun and limit the amount of time the crabs are left in the baskets on the boats. Hotter days would yield shorter crabbing days, while cooler days would allow a crabber to take advantage of the entire crabbing hours available. As dead loss would not be so much an issue as the case with hot days. Nonetheless, all crabs are immediately placed in refrigerated walkin coolers to keep the crabs fresh and lively before they are shipped to you. We distribute our crabs to 1 of 3 Crab locations which then cooks the crabs and then ships it direct to you daily. Our crabs come from rivers and channels of the Chesapeake Bay, MD. (The Wye mills River, Chester River and Choptank River is some of the areas where our boats are located). These are locations that yield some of the most impressive Crabs, year over year.
Those who have purchased from us are well aware that we often do supply even 7" to 9-1/2"" crabs, when in season. Call us and we can tell you what we have daily. It might just be the day we have a large catch of Super Collosals.
No one beats our prices, size to size comparison delivered to your door!
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We offer a Price Beat Guarantee. If you find any crab places lower online
call us and we will give you an immediate $10.00 Discount below that price.
That is our commitment to you that we're the Lowest priced Supplier online. (Applicable to Jumbo
Crabs only (6" to 7") half bushel or Full Bushel only - Door to Door delivered price comparison
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Our crabs are caught in Maryland in 5 areas of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay as well as in inlets and rivers including Choptank River, Chester River, and the Wye River. We can deliver locally to your door fresh caught daily.
Having a crabfeast? We can handle up to 100 Bushels, delivered to you cooked, and ready to serve. For large orders as this, please call in advance so that we can prepare and reserve you the crabs you need. Larger orders in size will receive competitive pricing.
Delivered NextDayAir/Priority Overnight to 48 States.
We ship freshly cooked crabs and/or live Crabs Daily.
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Call Toll Free 1.866.496.5063.
We Ship NATIONWIDE UPS, FEDEX, LTL
Buy Crabs by the Dozen, Half Bushel, or Bushel
Call us anytime from 9AM to 6PM Daily (Mon-Sat) or order 24/7 online
WE ARE DELIVERING in Maryland, Virginia, and PA areas every weekend.
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