Crisfield seafood company calls this oyster season “very unusual”

CRISFIELD, Md. – Well we’re a little past the halfway mark for this year’s oyster season and one local seafood business says this year has been a pleasant surprise.

47 ABC spoke with Metompkin Bay Oyster Company in Crisfield. One of the owners, Casey Todd, described the harvest this year as very unusual. Todd says the quantity of oysters has shocked everyone adding that they’re healthy, taste good and the quality of the meat is excellent. This comes after the state put a restriction on the days watermen could harvest oysters. Luckily, we’re told the surplus of oysters this year has made up for that.

“This is why they put the restrictions on, to try and reduce the catch a little bit. To get it more in line and with what they thought would be caught. And instead we’ve come back catching our limit every day. It’s almost like you hardly miss Wednesday because the other four days they are catching limit every day,” says Casey Todd one of the owners and managers of Metompkin Bay Oyster Company Inc.

The Metompkin Bay Oyster Company was honored on Friday. Comptroller Peter Franchot presented the Todd family with the Somerset County Cornerstone Award. The business was founded in 1945 by a World War II veteran. Since then, it’s positively impacted the area as both an employer and source of locally harvested seafood.