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« on: June 25, 2011, 06:40:31 PM »
Are blue crabs soft or hard shelled? Sorry, never been crabbing a day in my life and today is my first trip
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2011, 06:49:55 PM »
Generally they have a hard shell.    Occasionally the have soft shells when shedding in order to grow.

Check out this link for more info on this.

http://www.bluecrab.info/molting.html
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2011, 07:00:56 PM »
And I've heard of people eating spider crabs but are the ones in jersey edible?
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2011, 09:05:53 PM »
Quote from: Littleassassin2 on June 25, 2011, 07:00:56 PM
And I've heard of people eating spider crabs but are the ones in jersey edible?
don't wast your time with them . go for the blue claws.  Wink
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« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2011, 06:25:44 PM »
Quote from: Littleassassin2 on June 25, 2011, 06:40:31 PM
Are blue crabs soft or hard shelled? Sorry, never been crabbing a day in my life and today is my first trip

Yes! lol
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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2011, 10:53:51 PM »
hard/soft and veryyyy tastey
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