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Maryland Bays
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Web: www.dnr.state.md.us/coastalbays

Old Fashioned Maryland Cream of Crab Soup

1 tbl flour
2 tbl butter
1 pint crab meat
1/2 sliced onion
1/2 pint heavy cream
Chopped parsley, celery
Salt and pepper to taste

Melt butter in top of double boiler, add flour, and blend. Gradually add milk, onion, parsley, and celery and season to taste.

Cook slowly until soup thickens a little, then add crab meat.

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The Maryland Coastal Bays are experiencing rapid population growth and increased development. Recognizing the potential for additional stress on this fragile ecosystem and the importance of its health, government agencies have joined with the people who depend on the coastal bays for their livelihood and quality of life, to develop a plan of action that will protect and restore the bays' health. The Maryland Coastal Bays Program has identified changes in living resources, deteriorating water quality, habitat loss and modification, increasing chemical contamination, impacts of water-based activities, and pathogen contamination as priority issues threatening the coastal bays.