Changing Tides on Maryland’s Smith Island

Waterman Allen Marsh leaves his crab shanty after 'pulling up' soft-shell crabs—crabs that have just molted and are soft to the touch, and especially delicious to eat—on the Smith Island town of Ewell, Maryland, USA, 28 July 2013. Marsh sends his soft-shells daily by boat to the mainland, where the larger crabs are driven in a refrigerated truck to New York City. (photograph by Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency)
Waterman Allen Marsh leaves his crab shanty after ‘pulling up’ soft-shell crabs—crabs that have just molted and are soft to the touch, and especially delicious to eat—on the Smith Island town of Ewell, Maryland, USA, 28 July 2013. Marsh sends his soft-shells daily by boat to the mainland, where the larger crabs are driven in a refrigerated truck to New York City. (photograph by Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency)

WHNPA member and European Pressphoto Agency Jim Lo Scalzo recent work on Smith Island was featured in the Boston Globe’s Big Picture.