Unfortunately, due to the blue crab shortage in the Chesapeake Bay and exorbitant pricing, we are postponing this event till further notice.

It is already normally an expensive meat to buy, but right now the prices have doubled. Usually a pound of lump crab meat is about $40, current pricing is at nearly $100 per pound.

The Chesapeake Bay blue crab is down 30 percent this year according to an annual survey.

The 2021 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey, conducted by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Virginia Institute of Marine Science, estimates that there are 282 million blue crabs in the bay, down from 405 million in 2020. Read more here.