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What makes crabs have more meat than others? We went crabbing in Bayou St. John 6 weeks ago and caught some huge crabs that were completely full of meat. Last week we went back and the crabs were the same size, but did not have a lot of meat at all.
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Quote from: bean9677 on September 19, 2019, 12:05:57 PM
What makes crabs have more meat than others? We went crabbing in Bayou St. John 6 weeks ago and caught some huge crabs that were completely full of meat. Last week we went back and the crabs were the same size, but did not have a lot of meat at all.
the crab went through the sloughing/molting process. That is how a crab grows.
https://www.bluecrab.info/molting.html
Click on the little crab at the bottom of the page and it will take you to an information page with many topics discussed such as molting.
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If they are light and I put them in a cage, in the same water I caught them in and kept them fed. Would they get fuller, more meat?
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If they are light and I put them in a cage, in the same water I caught them in and kept them fed. Would they get fuller, more meat?
Crabs are cannibalistic and would likely kill each other before they became heavy.
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Quote from: bean9677 on September 19, 2019, 12:20:16 PM
If they are light and I put them in a cage, in the same water I caught them in and kept them fed. Would they get fuller, more meat?
I've done that a couple times.. They eat a lot.
And it takes a couple weeks..
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You could do what I do, throw them back and only keep the fat ones. The pinch test tells the story.
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