Spider crab graveyard!!

[Jerseymic]

Interesting news article from my old home island. The video of a crab shedding its shell is amazing.

http://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2014/07/04/738257/

[Shark Hunter]

Pretty Cool Mike. The only crab shell shedding I want is on my Plate! King, Dungeness and Snow Crabs in particular.

[Jerseymic]

Pretty Cool Mike. The only crab shell shedding I want is on my Plate! King, Dungeness and Snow Crabs in particular.

I am with you there, crab on a plate, bottle of chilled white wine and a nice stick of French bread with our famous Jersey butter!!

I love Spider, nice sweet meat, never had Snow Crab, I don't think we get them here in the U.K.

Mike.

[Keta]

Every year we have to reeducate the chicken little people about this.

[bluefish69]

Here in the NE we treat them as trash. I was taught this as a child. Just through them back & let them keep the bottom clean. I was told that Black Fish [Tautog] like them when there isn't any other food around.

Mike

[broadway]

You know it's a slow drift when you start catching them while fluke fishing.  Caught 3 of them on Sunday at about 11AM off Norton's Point, and while I can't knock it till I try it, they don't look very appetizing and their dirty as can be... algae, barnacles, etc. Are your spider crabs different?
Thanks
Dom

[Keta]

We have red rock and Dungeness crab.

[Shark Hunter]

We have some Japanese spider crabs at our local aquarium I would like to taste!

[broadway]

That's what I was saying... they have to be different because raccoons run away from our ugly spider crabs
That does look like an eater there, Daron.
Dom

[Keta]

Box crabs are cool but they do not taste good.  I have some dried that my wife keeps at her pre school. We would see several when diving for abs in SE Alaska, one is 16" across the carapace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_box_crab

[Jerseymic]

We have some Japanese spider crabs at our local aquarium I would like to taste!

That is just what our spiders look like, not quite as big, don't know if yours tastes the same, but the meat is very sweet in ours.

Mike.

[Keta]

Your spider crabs look like our tanner crabs.

[Jerseymic]

Box crabs are cool but they do not taste good.  I have some dried that my wife keeps at her pre school. We would see several when diving for abs in SE Alaska, one is 16" across the carapace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_box_crab

Hi Lee,
When you say diving for abs am I right in saying abalone, we unfortunately don't get them here in the U.K.

We used to get them back home in the Channel Islands the local name for them in Jersey is Ormer, wonderful slowly cooked in a pot overnight in a low oven, made a superb breakfast!!

There are strict laws on gathering ormers back home http://www.gov.je/Environment/LandMarineWildlife/FishShellfish/Pages/Ormers.aspx

If you look at the top of the page, Online information etc. below which is a translation into our local patois which is Norman French.

I posted a welcome in a previous post a while back in my local patois, and I think I confused the French speakers here!!

Mike.

P.S.
The 113H project from last year is about to come to fruition after a long time, will post photos when done.

[Jerseymic]

Your spider crabs look like our tanner crabs.

They look a bit more like the one Daron posted http://jerzzy.co.uk/spider-crab/

[Keta]

Larger front legs/claws.