Blue crabs

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  1. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    meh
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I've had them. They are good, but if they ain't boiled they ain't the best. A few years ago there was a shortage of crabs in the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland crab suppliers were buying them from Louisiana.
     
  3. KyleK

    KyleK Who, me? Staff Member

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    Over 90% of commercially harvested Louisiana #1 Blues are shipped to the east coast.
     
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    So that's why the price has gone up so much
     
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    A few years ago there was a poor dungeness crab season on the west coast, China was buying up all they could find,.. compared to the year before, the price we paid locally tripled.
     
  6. KyleK

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    This has been going on for quite some time. We get mostly 2's here. The east coast gets all of our #1's because they are willing to pay more.
     
  7. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    10 or 12 years ago you could get a dozen #1's in a restaurant for about $17.95. Now the same restaurant charges $4 A CRAB!
     
  8. jvalhenson

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    Salinity still 0 in the bay but we got 3 dozen this morning. Still not good but def better than Monday
     
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    el005639 Founding Member

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    was in grand isle this past weekend for my sisters wedding. we set traps and caught about 8 dozen, out of all of those only 2 #1s. Both males, But they were all very full and damn tasty
     
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  10. jvalhenson

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    More of the same last couple times. 3 dozen even each of the last 2 trips. Enough to stay interested but half what we should be getting. Fishing been good too lots of trout and jumped on a couple snapper trips with some guys getting limits each time biggest going 24.8lbs. Also picked up a 17lb blackfish. Photobucket apparently not working any more and when I try to attach a pic it says file is to large every time.
     

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