"Andy" <q> wrote in message > The last time I bought a pound of blue jumbo
lump crab meat was last year
> for about $21. At the seafood market in town today it's $29.
> <snipped>

> This CAN'T be the Katrinna Effect! It's almost all from Maryland!??
> What's the price in your area?
>
> I understand it's hard to get such large lumps of crab, but no harder
> than last year or the year before...
>
> The BUMS!!!
>
> Andy

Lump crab meat has been running about $18 here in Maryland. Backfin is
around $14. It has been a lousy crab year, after quite a few lousy years.
Thank over-harvesting, flooding earlier this year which inundated the
Chesapeake Bay, and pollution.

Dora