> >I grew up on a tidal river in southern NJ. We trapped and ate blue crab
> all
> summer (and froze crabcakes for winter). I love it, but I wouldn't touch it
> now. Or anything else that filters the water in that whole region.
>
A local seafood retailer takes a truck to the coast (Atlantic Beach,
Beauford, NC & SC) to pick up seafood twice a week so it is fresh from the
warf plus
the five our transit time.
Twenty years ago we used to get a basket of oysters, open them on the half
shell, and eat them raw with a bottle of Corona with a wedge of lime in neck.
No more! Wouldn't go anywhere near one of those oysters now.