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A FALL BALANCING ACT

Hoisting the crab cage onto the boat is much harder than Dave makes it look. I grip the yellow rope the way he showed me, and pull it out of the choppy water. My shoulders burn as the cage emerges, crawling with crabs. Andy, Sandy and I “ooh” and “ahh” as Dave sifts through the haul, tossing back the females and babies he measures with a small, L-shaped ruler. The process leaves us with three legal males. “Dinner,” he says with a satisfied smile.

I steer

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