I'm getting crabs 2nite bitch!!!! [pics]
 

The Chesapeake Bay, shared by Maryland and Virginia, is famous for its blue crabs, and they are one of the most important economic items harvested from it. In 1993, the combined harvest of the blue crabs was around 100 million. Over the years the harvests of the blue crab dropped; in 2000, the combined harvest was around 45 million. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources has created stricter guidelines for harvesting blue crabs to help increase populations. These include raising the legal size from 5 to 5¼ inches (from 12.7 to 13.3 cm) and limiting the days and times they may be caught. While blue crabs remain a popular food in the Chesapeake Bay area, the bay is not capable of meeting local demand, so crabs are shipped in from North Carolina, Louisiana, Florida and Texas as well.

However the place i'm going to is locally known in maryland as the only SURE FIRE place to get actual bay crabs.

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http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/news/news_bluecrab_basket.jpg

http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/fo...crabfeast.jpeg

good shit.. my ex father inlaw's wife used to live there. she always brags about how good they are in maryland. :thumbsup

hmmm ... never had these. Doesnt look really delicious to be honest. Maybe thats just me :)

I was maryland last spring, their crabs are good but expensive.

Yummy crabs!!! *drooling* Love the fatty part of it. :thumbsup

Watch out your blood pressure.:1orglaugh

crabs are one of the most disgusting seafood :2 cents:

I prefer dungeness crabs

I Love crabs.

Not my Niche...Seafood just isnt my Niche !

I love crabs. I never had blue crabs before (not as far as I know)

Damn i could never eat anything like that... :Oh crap

Strange how people like to eat bottom feeder scavengers of the sea like crabs and lobsters.

Food
Blue crabs are classified as general scavengers, bottom carnivores (eats other animals), detritivores (eats decaying organic matter), and omnivores (eats either other animals or plants). At various stages in the life cycle, blue crabs serve as both prey and as consumers of plankton, benthic macroinvertebrates, fish, plants, mollusks, crustaceans (including other blue crabs), and organic debris. Food is located by a combination of chemoreception (chemical sense) and taction (touch). Blue crabs may play a significant role in the control of benthic populations.

Macroinvertebrates are organisms without backbones (e.g., insect larvae, annelids (leeches), oligochaetes (worms), crustaceans (crabs, crayfish and shrimp), mollusks (clams, oysters and mussels), and gastropods (snails)) and inhabit bottom substrates (e.g., sediments, debris, logs, macrophytes, and filamentous algae.)

Adult Food
Adult blue crabs prefer mollusks such as oysters and hard clams as their primary food sources. The crab uses the tips of its front-most walking legs to probe the bottom for buried bivalves and to manipulate them after they are located. Some other common food items include dead and live fish, crabs (including other blue crabs), shrimp, benthic macroinvertebrates, organic debris, and aquatic plants and associated fauna such as roots, shoots and leaves of sea lettuce, eelgrass, ditch grass, and salt marsh grass. It will also prey on oyster spat, newly set oysters and clams, or young oysters and quahogs if other food is unavailable.

Juvenile Food
Juvenile blue crabs feed mostly on benthic macroinvertebrates, small fish, dead organisms, aquatic vegetation and associated fauna.

Larval Food
Zoeae are phytoplanktivorous and readily consume algae, phytoplankton and zooplankton. Megalope are considered general scavengers, bottom carnivores, detritivores, and omnivores. Megalope are more omnivorous than zoeae and prey upon fish larvae, small shellfish, and aquatic plants.

mmmm hotdogs...

had a feast the other day probably 60lbs of crab cooked 3 different ways
spicy chili
green onion and ginger
traditional boiled with garlic butter

pics to come :)

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Have some for me man

i didn't mean that in cocks either :Oh crap

MD Blue crabs are awesome!

Ive been eating them since I was born. My family has a house down the beach (Ocean City, MD) so we do a good ammount of crabbing :)

You'd love puerto rico...people sell live crabs in cages on the side of the road...I almost ran over a HUGE blu-"ish" looking crab yesterday walking across the road. ..Just picked up some fresh caught red snapper from the market today...gonna thaw and season one of them in an aluminum packet for the grill tomorrow when I want lunch

Alaskan snow king crabs arouse me..delicious!

Looks Yummy. All of a sudden I'm feeling the craving for YANG CHOW FRIED RICE WITH (FAUX) CRAB MEAT. Yum!

heres an interesting fact about "lobsters"

There was a law enacted years ago to stop slave owners from feeding the slaves lobster. Lobster was a "cheap filler" back then and slave owners would feed the slaves mainly lobsters, but a law was encated to stop the cruel punishment of making slaves eat lobster..

pollock ( a fatty fish )

thats what fake crab meat is ( although i tell my kids its melted down plastic forks )

Had a bushel this weekend thems was good eating

I like crab legs, but not blue crabs. But they are 45$ a pound here.

Damn, I've never had blue crab. I'm from the NW and have only had dungeness, snow and king. Are they much different? Are they impossible to find in the west?

just got back ....they were $40 a dozen, we spent over $100 lol

luckily i was with my homeboy & he helped pick up some of the check

crabs are good enjoy!

Wow that's cheap.

Last night i eated a 50$ 1 pound Lobster at la Maison du Pecheur with the view of Le Rocher Percé

A 11 hour ride from Montreal. :pimp

i eat nothing that lives in water

Mmmmmm love crabs

yummy!!!