Comments on: Crabbing on Mecox Bay

By: Mr. Mantooth

Mr. Mantooth — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:46:07 +0000

nifty video

By: Out Walking the Dog

Out Walking the Dog — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 13:32:12 +0000

Love that image of the crabs queuing up for a bit of bacon. It’s into the pot for these poor fellows.

By: theresagreen

theresagreen — Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:38:13 +0000

That’s an interesting post. The blue crabs are impressive and rather beautiful. ‘Crabbing’ is a fun thing that holidaymakers here do with their kids, baiting hooks with pieces of bacon and dangling them in the water of the harbours. They only catch little ones though and then throw them back, so I imagine a queue of little crabs waiting for a bite to eat, getting thrown back in the water and getting back on the end of the queue……

By: Vladimir Brezina

Vladimir Brezina — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:46:02 +0000

Physiology, not ecology or anything like that. Basically, how the crab heart works…

By: Out Walking the Dog

Out Walking the Dog — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:28:47 +0000

What a memory, Virginia, having a boat so full of crabs you couldn’t put your feet down!

By: Out Walking the Dog

Out Walking the Dog — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:27:54 +0000

It is amazing to see those claws in action, isn’t it?

By: Out Walking the Dog

Out Walking the Dog — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:22:57 +0000

Everybody loves chicken! What a sight those greedy snappers must be.

By: Out Walking the Dog

Out Walking the Dog — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:21:32 +0000

Oh, that’s amazing, Vladimir! These guys seem fairly wily, slipping away before they get netted. What are you researching in Puerto Rico?

By: Nature on the Edge

Nature on the Edge — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:22:56 +0000

Fascinating how nature’s design is built for purpose. Great video footage – strength of claws!

By: Virginia Fair

Virginia Fair — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 19:24:22 +0000

The photos you include could be Lavalette, NJ. where I saw people of all ethnicities crabbing along the bay.
However when I was a kid, summering in Cape Cod, we used to fish from a rowboat outfitted with an outboard motor. We used fish heads from fish, we’d caught the previous day, as bait
We’d tie them on a string and haul them up to be scooped up in a net.
Some days we had so many, the bottom of the boat was full and we had to keep our feet up on the seats.
And just to think, I’m a vegetarian now.

By: mthew

mthew — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:33:06 +0000

At a crabbing spot I know in Mass., the snapping turtles rush towards people on the bridge because they think they’re bearing chicken parts. Meanwhile, on the western end of L.I., we’ve got the blues, too, both crabs and mussels (curious that the video calls them “black mussels”).

By: Vladimir Brezina

Vladimir Brezina — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:27:39 +0000

We also do scientific research on blue crabs. Part of this work is done in Puerto Rico, where the crabs are caught in local lagoons. Blue crabs are so voracious and aggressive that it’s often sufficient just to stick into the water a piece of wire, without any bait at all. The crab will attack it and cling to it even when it’s pulled out of the water…