Ready to crack into some Florida stone crabs? Customers have some claws for optimism: Costs at most fish markets, restaurant menus and wholesalers are nearly the same as they were at the start of last season, reversing a trend of record-high prices set in 2021 and 2022. As Florida’s stone-crab season gets underway this week, seafood purveyors from Broward and Palm Beach counties and even the .
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Days into the 2022-23 stone crab season, local seafood markets, restaurants and wholesalers say strong weekend winds and lean traps on Florida’s Gulf Coast are limiting supplies of the crustacean delicacy.
The first stone crab harvests are expected to arrive for restaurants, wholesalers and seafood markets by Sunday morning. But fishers, wholesalers and seafood markets say the lingering effects of Hurricane Ian and more-expensive diesel fuel and crab bait could spell steeper prices than the end of last season.
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