A Season-by-Season Guide to Chesapeake Bay Seafood
The Chesapeake Bay has fed the Eastern Shore for generations, and one of the best parts of visiting Rock Hall, Maryland, is eating your way through the seasons. Blue crabs, oysters, rockfish and soft-shell crabs each have their moment on the Chesapeake Bay, and knowing when to order what makes a trip taste even better. Here is a season-by-season guide to Chesapeake Bay seafood, so you can sample the freshest catches. Spring: Soft-Shell Crabs and the Season's First Rockfish Spring means soft-shell crabs. On the Eastern Shore, this means blue crabs caught between shedding one shell and hardening the next, [...]