Russell Hall Seafood

Handy is one of the leading and oldest crab processor in the world. Handy International is headquartered on five acres of land on the Chesapeake Bay in Crisfield, Md., with additional processing operations in Asia and South America. The company processes an array of seafood products, including domestic and imported soft crabs, crab cakes, crab meat and salmon cakes. Handy has been in the seafood business since 1903 and began its operations as a tomato and fish processor. The ownership of the company remained with the Handy and Sterling families until it was sold in 1981 to a local businessman who developed the company as a forerunner in the soft shell crab industry. In 1988, Taiyo Oil of Tokyo purchased Handy.

Sea Watch International is an independently owned seafood company that was founded in 1978. The company is based in the Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, and is a supplier of clams and specialty seafood products such as crab cakes, breaded calamari, tempura shrimp, buffalo and crispy clam strips. The company s national customer base consists of commercial and non-commercial food service companies, restaurants and industrial co-pack suppliers.