On Monday, June 29 we took the museum's escorted walking tour of the city. The highlight was Metompkin's Soft Shell Crab processing factory. We saw big boxes on pallets that were ready to go to the airport in DC and were headed to many destinations in California and Nevada. The soft shells shown here were then covered with straw and ice and were going by truck to NYC's Fulton Street Fish Market. Metompkin trucks leave daily for DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, and Boston. We learned the size classifications of soft shells, and the only one I can remember is the largest are called "whales". We passed by Metompkin Bay Oyster Co which is one of three oyster processing companies left in Crisfield. The city had 150 seafood processing houses at its peak!