BRUNSWICK, Maine — Canadian businessman Ron Howse boiled up a pot of European green crabs in a microwave Thursday afternoon and offered tastes of the sweet white flesh to reporters, fishermen and others gathered at a news conference in downtown Brunswick.
“If that’s not sweet, I don’t know what is,” proclaimed Howse, who hopes to market the invasive crabs — which are devastating Maine shellfish and eelgrass beds — as a delicacy to seafood brokers and large restaurant chains around the world.
Howse believes that if he can find a cost-effective way to put the crabs on tables worldwide, it will turn a burgeoning crisis for Maine shellfish harvesters into a lucrative business for himself and those who can provide him with what to date has been a coastal pest.
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