Hours before the sun comes up, stone crabber Kit Johnson is navigating the murky
waters of Florida’s everglades. Guided only by navigational markers that appear
in the darkness and the radio’s weather forecast. Meanwhile, his three-man crew
prepares bait for the crab traps.
Fun Facts: 90 percent of stone crabs caught come from the waters surrounding Florida. But different species of the tasty crustacean are trapped from the shores of North Carolina all the way down to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
