Doc: Tondy, they ain't hardly no crabs left in the Potomac river no more, an' I can tell you why.
Tondeleo: Doc, I'm sure you've got the answer . . . and' I'm sure it's not what all the people who study the rivers and the Chesapeake for a living think it is...
Doc: Used to be you could take a couple of rotten chicken necks out with you, tie 'em to a string an' then pull in crabs until you was too tired to pull 'em in. You'd get a bushel in a half hour. Not now. You might be out there two hours an' get less than a half bushel, which ain't worth goin' out for.
The government says that crabbers took all the crabs outta the water an' ate them. I ain't seein' no fat crabbers or any other watermen for that matter. Mos' of them can hardly afford gas for they's boats.
No, it ain't the crabbers what's makin' it to be no crabs. It's the government what kilt the crabs by gettin' all the seaweed out for the boaters.
Marcia Koeppe down here in Southern MD took this picture of blue crabs bein' hosed off to get all the pollution off 'em.
Crabs need seaweed an' the speed boaters cried to the government to get rid of it cause it got caught up in their props. So the government killed the seaweed and that's what killed the crabs.
But the boaters is still gettin' stuff caught in their props, it just ain't seaweed.
