savor — guide to food & dining on the azalea coast Voted Best Vegetarian Food by encore magazine Lovey’s watermen Your LOCAL Health Food Store and Café CELEBRATING 12 YEARS • Organic Produce and Groceries • Salad, Soup, Hot & Juice bars • Cafe • Catering • Supplements • Health & Beauty Aids • Wheat & Gluten-Free foods SpecialS Planetary Formulas and Source Natural Supplements 20% off 910-509-0331 Landfall Shopping Center • 1319 Military Cutoff Road www.loveysmarket.com With a shallow draft Carolina Skiff and 50 traps, self-taught waterman Sam Romano brings a mess of live crabs to the dock, below. His best months for crabbing are September through November after shellfish have had time to fatten all season. Graded or culled crabs are separated by size into wooden boxes before they are delivered to market. Masonboro Sounder Jeff Wolfe eyes a fat Jimmy crab. He’s careful to hold the pinching claw between rubber gloved fingers. Wolfe has been working the water for more than 20 years. Each season he sets between 150-160 crab traps, or pots. Each trap holds 50-60 crabs, nearly a bushel full. “I like to check my traps every other day,” Wolfe says. “Then the smaller crabs have time to escape, and I have to do less grading.” WBM FILE PHOTO WBM FILE PHOTO 88 WBM august 2014
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