Fishing Creek is an

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and

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(CDP) in

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, United States, on Upper Hoopers Island. As of the 2010 census, the population of Fishing Creek was 163. It is in

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, and ZIP code 21634.

Demographics

Description

Located on a narrow island served primarily by Hoopers Island Road, Fishing Creek has a restaurant (Old Salty's), a post office, and a general store (Hoopers Island General Store), as well as

crabbing Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or farm crabs. True crabs make up 20% of all crustaceans caught and farmed worldwide, with about 1.4 million tonnes being consumed annually. The horse crab, '' Portunus trituberculatus'', accounts for on ...

businesses which rely on seasonal workers. Local legend posits a number of

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in the Fishing Creek area. The village is on the upper island of the three-island chain known as Hoopers Island, about south of the

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge The Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1933 as a waterfowl sanctuary for birds migrating along the critical migration highway called the Atlantic Flyway. The refuge is located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, just south of ...

and south of

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. Hoopersville, on Middle Hooper Island, is to the south.

In the media

Fishing Creek resident Louie "Rufus" Frase, 43 at the time, was a contestant on the summer 2007

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'' Pirate Master''.

References

External links

HomeTownLocator: Fishing Creek (MD) - Community ProfileRestaurants in Fishing Creek
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