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- Invasive green crabs are wrecking marine ecosystems everywhere from New England to the Pacific Northwest. That doesn't mean they're not delicious. That's why environmentalists and chefs are turning them into whiskey and bisques. But can we ever drink or eat enough of them to make a difference?
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In a couple of decades, people will say "this once considered invasive species is now the most expensive seafood in the world"
When that happens I will come back to this comment.
Ah, the story of the lobster
@@sjofas yes just like Lobsters that scrounge the seabed living on scraps and crap nothing else will eat. Shrimp are the same. I once worked with a south African fisherman who wouldn't eat shrimp or Lobster, he called them cockroaches of the sea..
yep just like lobster
Lol facts
I grew up on Cape Cod where these little green crabs have become very abundant. I could walk to the water's edge and probably find about 20 greenies within 5 minutes. We were always taught that they're inedible; blue crabs were always the sought after catch. It's interesting to find out that they are in fact edible and decently good!
Green crabs are very tasty and have a deep rich flavour from the darker meat. They are expensive to buy in europe though and are a bit of a delicacy. The meat is often served in the shell which serves as a nice dice.
Ahhh. I love cape cod seafood. Went squid fishing with my cousin once. It was a blast
Maybe next time we'll cook some crabs. What's the best season?
@@FLMKane If you're going for blue crabs, which is undoubtedly the superior crab, you can find them pretty much any time in the summer but you need to find the good spots in the estuaries
We used them for bait.
Yep people eat everything, it's awful.
I’m in Portland Oregon, there was a report on the local PBS radio about how the popular Dungeoness crab is being decimated by our overfishing AND the green crab competing for food. I have asked the fish stores for green crab and they have no idea what I am talking about. Wide open opportunity here. Timely
you wanna start catching some? 😃
start a business
Link this video around and start advocating
We complain about invasive species all the time, but we just need to have a few or one monopolize innovated person farm and sell them to Asia/Latin countries. I’m open minded for any shellfish especially if they are inexpensive.
@@mrdude88 Well the Chinese just LOVE "Hairy Crabs", which command a PREMIUM price during their short time of availability!
As humans, asking if we could ever eat enough of them is an automatic "yes". We can eat anything into extinction.
Yes! :)
We just have to let China come in to catch em all
ants :)
Beans
As if the alternative is a no brainer.
"Oh lets let this invasive species overpopulate, further disrupting the ecosystem.
Getting fed while allowing other species a chance to thrive seems like a win win.
Or you cans start handing out crab contraceptives, under the sea to combat the invasiveness of this species. Which is better?
Once restaurants realize they can get them cheap and charge a lot, they'll get really popular!
Small crabs in bicol province in the Philippines deep fry them. It's crunchy and taste really good 😋
And they will soon become unaffordable
@@dspsblyuth And then price will drop to be affordable.
@@derpderp8440 how do you figure that?
@@dspsblyuth
Well, at least we save the environment.
My kids and I love crab but can hardly afford to it eat. A small box of it at Walmart is about $40 so we'll have it only for birthdays or special occasions. Even with a hard shell I wouldn't mind tediously picking out the meat from green crab. It actually makes for a fun meal. If it was offered for purchase at Walmart or grocery chains at a decent price I'm sure it would sell easily. I definitely would buy it
@AuntieK Official thanks for the tip. I'm in Phoenix
I wish it was cost effective to ship, I live on the beach in New England and it’s been crazy to see how decimated the shellfish beds I walk on every day have been by these guys. I’d collect buckets for free for whoever wanted them bc they’re so prevalent it takes minutes to fill a small pail by hand lol
Would be great if these crabs are in Vietnam. We turn them into paste, soup, and even fermented crab to eat with rice. We have had these dishes for so long ago. You can check out shrimp paste, Bun Rieu soup, and Ba Khia with rice.
Go to America
Sell Crab Paste. Sell crab soup. Sell fermented crab
Become rich.
Retire early
Die old
Salt crab!!! So so good🤗👍
no we don't bro, fellow vietnamese here.
I understand it's a joke on how good we are at making dishes from everything, but invasive species kill other native species, they affect way more than we can use them as delicacy.
@@WullNar I agree..👍
I was thinking the same
As a kid growing up on a coastal Georgia island, my grandfather taught me to use needle nosed pliers to pluck out the eyes of a molted blue crab and the crab would live for several days without its shell ever hardening and could then be fried up as a soft shelled crab. I later learned that the hormone necessary for the shell to harden comes from the crabs eyes.
Wow
Who figured this out, and wtf were they trying to do to that crab?
Hmmmm.....interesting.....definitely wanna do some crabbing for these and a few others
@@crinkly.love-stick shhhhush, who discovered animal milk, wtf where they doing with that goat or cow.
If Louisiana can turn crawfish into a nice big boil, I’m sure we can do to same for these crabs
My dude, read my mind.
Shit, church event after mass, bra. Crab boil and all the sides. Bet them suckers are gone in two years.
Not enough meat on these crabs.
But it has a good flavor in it.
@@niwrad84 need those big ones for that sweet volume to surface area ratio
@@niwrad84
Asians would disagree
In the Philippines, we have these tiny crabs called Talangka or Shore Crabs. They're about the same size as these Green Crabs, sometimes even smaller. People eat them despite their miniscule amount of meat. They're boiled, fried, or sautéed in a bunch of ingredients.
Cause the big one have been all wipe out, that why even small one not get spared.
How does it taste like?
they add salt after pan sauteing it. Remove the upper shell and feet. Dip it in spicy vinegar. Have it as a meal with rice or a side when people drinks alcohol
@@Nazerin89 that's actually ignorant of you re: ph beaches. maybe do research next time about our crab species.
Okay sea mexican🙄
In my country, we don't really wait for molting season since we use their hard shells for fried stuffings.
They're also good when cooked with coconut milk and vegetables.
We harvest their fats and turn it into paste which is good for fried rice, marinades, soups, and stews.
Though I don't know if Filipino dishes will pass on American taste. Unless they have allergies, it's worth to try.
I'd try
I volunteer as tribute! Send alll the Filipino food my way!
There are many Americans who would be willing to at least try dishes using them.
i think suggestions like that are great, i grew up in australia with a very bland diet. i love mixing it up from different countries and years ago found fried crab! its fantastic ❤
you basically made me drool
Me, a south-east asian: * drooling * Invasive you say?
quiet, you.
Can't wait to watch a video about 'what makes green crabs so expensive' within a couple of years.
right........
It would probably take a decade of directed over harvesting at this rate
Just think lobster used to be hated.
@@patricknevermind8529 it was poor people food served in prisons. They where everywhere and where huge. Lot of 50 yo lobs and older
@@lucaskp16 this is such a stupid myth. Lobster was shipped before widespread refrigeration and then ground up whole to serve to prisoners as a paste. You eat ground up shell and shit and rancid meat without any choice in the matter and call it a luxury.
That’s awesome. I’m wondering if a company that makes canned clam chowder can pick them up and make some kind of crab chowder as well, with green crab. It could be shipped all over the world and made in bulk to put a bigger dent in the green crab population.
I was thinking something similar. Seafood chowder is delicious, and since these crabs are so over abundant, they'd make a good commercial source of potentially inexpensive natural flavoring if collection was scaled up enough.
They are a potential source of delicious canned chowder! I think the problem is, there would be too much hand work in processing, making it too expensive. Small-ish crabs are a real 3D puzzle to clean and process, and no machine could even do a half-decent job of separating meat/shell/entrails. Maybe someday though, it sounds delicious!
@@Bob_AdkinsThey seem to be making stock and/or bisque (which utilizes the shell and all), reducing the labour involved. Soft-shell crabs are more labour-intensive but work okay.
The lady said it right. It all comes down to people willing to try a different menu instead of the usual burgers, pizza, or mashed potato.
These crabs will not be called invasive in Asia. Just like carp.
When we watch fishermen in America where they would throw away salmon heads and bones, we're like, "such a waste." You just have to boil 'em in water with onions, tomatoes, ginger, lemon grass, salt, and maybe some msg for that umami taste. That's one delish soup that will warm you up. Specially in cold months.
I don't think you know what invasive means
@@nikolaybondarev7407 he does but you didn’t understand the deeper meaning behind what he said
@@nikolaybondarev7407 it looks u don't understand the definition on invasive
They would still be considered invasive here even if we start eating them- they're non-native and destroying their new ecosystem
@Shahandqueen the crypto bot We're not gonna invest on an economic bubble, it's gonna burst sooner or later
No way. I’m a sucker for sea food, and crabs rank way high up there. The fact that these things are destroying so many shellfish angers me beyond no end. They shall get no mercy 😋
In the Philippines, we can turn this crab into crab paste, it's an expensive delicacy in our country.
Okay sea mexican🙄
With growing your own food becoming so popular, I can see these being turned into a fertilizer people would love to buy.
Brought "eating your problem away" to a whole new level
The crabs are still a problem but the effort to dent it's population is still low because the green crabs consumption is not very high on America and the lack of natural predators make them thrive very easily like carps.
In Asia, crabs and carps is a common meal.
We literally eat carp too much that some of the species need to be farmed to keep it's population going and knowing carp can still thrive even on dirty water make you think how much we like carp.
Restaurants should market them as “organically imported” and/or “small batch harvested” crab & caviar.
Can’t they use them to make fertilisers like what they are doing with carp? Woudnt using This crab also have the added benefit of calcium because of their shells so it doesn’t matter if it isn’t soft?
Was looking for a comment about 'fish' fertilizer but did not consider the added benefit of nutrients in the shell. Great input!
wulf sells them around $13 for 3 lbs. That' is still expensive for fertilizer.
@@slewone4905 My understanding from the vid is that there aren't a ton of players in this industry at the moment. I agree that that is too expensive for use as a fertilizer today, but the more people who tag in, the cheaper it becomes to harvest as it gets more competitive which drives innovations which improves efficiency. Of course, that could just as easily lead to artificial price inflation with demand, trying to "play the system", and maybe even breed these crabs rather than remove them from the environment, or a whole slew of other underhandedness that defeats the purpose of finding an economical way to 'reduce the roar' of the impact this overpopulated invasive species has on its impacted environments. I don't know. I don't have the resources to put into influencing it myself, so I can only hope that the situation improves using any and all means that lead to net positive outcomes.
Ohhh, you are SO smart! I can see that fertilizer selling well!!
But unlike carp, they are absolutely lovely and completely fit for human consumption.
You can probably build a factory which processes the green crab into various different products. First off, you gather hundred of crabs and give them a good clean wash to rid them of any sand and dirt. Then secondly, you toss them in batches into a large factory boiler to humanely cook them. Afterward you send the cooked crabs into a conveyor belt for processing, meanwhile the boiled crab water can be package as crab broth for crab soup or stewed flavor meals. A machine will separate the crab limbs and body as well as meat from shells. The most desire portion of the crab meat will soon go into the canning process where spices, seasoning, and preservatives are added for a longer shelf life. The lease desire portion of the crab meat like the innards or minuscule leg meat can be separated into another conveyor belt which process them as livestock feed, pet food or even fish/crab bait. Finally the shells can be grounded and added into compost as nutrients for potential fertilizer. Nothing goes to waste.
You should do it.
i dont think machines are advanced enough to seperate the fine meat
@@sweetboy6979
I agree, at the very least, not at an efficient snd affordable rate. They'd likely need to get some highly advanced and highly programmable "arms" for something like that, I'd imagine.
@@sweetboy6979 I've also watched other videos where they state it isn't worthwhile have people pick the meat, else they would already have instead of processing for soft shell crab.
How about crab eggs to compete with caviar?
Steam them, dry them, add a little salt, powder them, BOOM incredible crab bouillon or whatever else you want.
Sounds delicious.
im down for some crab sauce ngl
You can even use these crabs to make gejang if they lays that many eggs. Gejeng is a dish where you marinating the whole crab in a special soy sauce for almost a week, they can gets really tasty (crabs with eggs gets really expensive sometimes).
hell yeah too bad most ignorant american palates will prevent the ppl from eating gejang.
Okay asian🙄
@@cloudnein8114 found the douchebag!
@@cloudnein8114 Okay AHole
And there are a lot of Korean in NYC or SF I think if they are this cheap it will make no problem to sell it to a Korean supermarket
I would suggest promoting/selling the green crabs to Asian markets and restaurants. Def. going to order green crabs to make fermented paste/sauce and crab fat paste.
Unfortunate to see what these crabs are causing in the US, back in Europe it's the other way around, where other invasive crab species are pushing thes crabs back from their original habitat.
We can all trade crabs, just like the old dormitory days.
@@mikewilson858 hol up
@@mikewilson858 😂😂
the King Crab is a massive pain in the ars.e in Norway and the North Sea ... it's affecting fish populations in the North sea including the prized Haddock
I read blue crabs are a major invasive problem in Italy. Maybe the Italians should encourage Marylanders to visit. We'll bring crab pots and Old Bay.
Just eat the damn things. There's a population that won't ever be overfished. We should be celebrating.
Other than private consumption, everyone wants an extremely safe food supply so regulations and licensing are through the roof. Each company that starts could likely only afford to produce one product at a time, then you need fishermen, and an interested market.
@rayf6126 real crab meat for cheap. There'll definitely be a market for that. They are probably already being eaten in other places in the world. So, in the off chance there won't be a market for them in North America, they can be exported to places that already have a demand for them. Furthermore, it's a steady job for any fishermen going into the business. There's no quotas, and they're super abundant. The crabs are invasive, so catching them will give the fishermen an added satisfaction that they're doing something good. There are probably lots of regulations for crabs already. They just need to tweak it for this species. Also, law makers can look into what regulations other countries have for this species and use them as examples to craft their own. You may be over complicating this.
@@ToudaHell It's not the legislation I'm over complicating it's the licensing and equipment particularly if the food is traveling from place to place. Between the States themselves California's rules on traveling with pig's to process in-state are more humane than VTs. That's just live animals without needing water or cold transport which adds to the weight of the truck supported by our roads but lessens the weight of product to sell. Then you have regulations to pressure can crabs for tins based on meat density, salt content of the muscles, and decent texture after heat treatment that would have to be approved by the FDA for mass market transport. All that investment and time is going into a product that is invasive so you're hoping for diminishing returns eventually unless we put in sustainability measures which defeats the purpose of eradicating an invasive species.
@rayf6126 looks like you're an expert on food regulations. I have a post grad in environmental sciences. I did a literature review on invasive species during my undergrad. So please give me the courtesy that I'm more knowledgeable on invasive species than you. So believe me when I say that when an invasive species get established like green crabs have already, there is no way to eradicate them. The only thing we can do is mitigate the damage they do to the ecosystem until they naturalize. Gree crabs are here to stay. Therefore, any investment toward establishing an industry around them won't be wasted as it will have a very long-term benefits for the ecosystem and economy (probably, as it's not my expertise).
@@ToudaHell Thanks, for the info.
Can we get one of these videos about the blue crabs in Italy and what people are doing there
This is just sad, a delicious food can't be enjoyed by may others. If we can cut the cost of transportation down, at least people along the coast line can enjoy these green crabs.
They aren't delicious. They taste like dirt that came off the bottom of a polluted bay.
must be even worse now, seeing the gas prices fbm
If you want green crabs release maybe 50 of them in the nearest sea and wait
Generally, prices in bulk shipping are based on cost by volume, so it would still be cheaper to only ship the raw ingredient locally.
Those crabs are perfect fishing bait here in VA beach
Damn near every fish here eats those crabs.
Endless predators
Those green crabs wouldn’t stand a chance
Glad to see more and more uses for them! Along with other odd ways to prepare, fermented sauce from them makes an excellent sweet n salty butterscotch. Medium size hard shells are also excellent deep fried! Nice work everyone!
It's weird that people are not eating them?! Like maybe it's because they are small and there's not a lot of meat but I bet those would make some tasty soups and stews. They'd probably be great for stock too.
Americans only like big things. take the Crayfish as an example... it's small so Americans don't pay attention to it. meanwhile country like China doesn't mind and consumes tons of it. Even the Crayfish farmers in US exports their crayfish to China because of the demand.
@@iamwisdomsky Louisiana would like word with you
For decades, people were told that green crabs were inedible.
I remember fishing for these crabs as a kid with my family as my parents did etc. German tourists would always be looking in awe apparently never having seen them it was quite the spectacle for them
Verified with no likes?
Let's be honest. Point the Asian Community, especially the Japanese community, in the direction of the Green crabs and they will singlehandedly keep them in check.
I can’t believe this is a problem for america its literally free food
Maybe the southeast Asian community, there’s a similar mud crab that’s part of their diet
Asians dont eat everything under the sun ok
Yeah if I was closer I would eat it daily. Southeast Asian.
@Ching Vang LMAOO
They make an awesome fish stock together with small rock fish. We use them is Spain all the time! Just don't boil the fish stock for more than 20 min. and des-espumate (remove the foam) as it forms.
If you have so many you could sell fish stock in the supermarkets in a tetra brick or similar.
This looks like perfect bait for redfish, ship some of these things frozen to the southern coast and I would pay a dime a crab. The local fish refuse to eat these crabs? Crabs normally have a lot of predators in a marine environment. Why are these populations exploding?
The loss of so much cod in the northeast probably doesn't help.
185.000 eggs. 📡👽🇺🇸 RUN!!!
We use them
In NJ for tautog and striped bass
They are the best bait for tog and reds
I see seagulls here in Scotland eat them all the time
Looking at crabs cooking gets me hungry for boiled crawfish and crab, and mushrooms and corn.
You might be offering this up to the wrong market or the price is too high. If I recall giant tiger prawns is also an issue in other US waters which I am kind of surprised that it is still an issue.
Considering the novelty as a cooking ingredient and it's limited supply due to its novelty, I would bet that the price is too high. It's a niche at the moment and only economies of scale would bring it to a competitive price.
Americans only eat beef and no seafood thats why it has become a problem.
They are in abundant, like any other resources was on earth. Once people realize they can earn money money from it easily, they will start exploiting it. One there population decline, same news headline will be "Once green carb was in abundant number, now only a few left we need to preserve them and how we can do it".
Same old cycle , today they are showing how to use them in abundant next they will show how to protect them.....
I was in the Netherlands once.... and there was a stout type beer that was filtered through some sort of sea shell......... BEST BEER EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
Good god!
Yup, we had one here in a craft brewery in California and it was amazing. It made me want to eat seafood with it. It was a limited batch though and they haven’t brought it back. I loved the oysters and sea salt on the finish. I think it was a stout if I remember correctly. It was amazingly good.
Probably someone who says "best ... ever!" Would be susceptible to buying anything. If we only had an OK Boomer for millennial stereotypes!
@@gaywizard2000 we just get called “damned millennials”🤷♀️. Like somehow that’s the “ok boomer” of our generation. And it’s pretty much “damned millennials” for basically everything we do, because we’re not allowed to like or dislike anything (or be vocal about liking or disliking anything).
@@DiscoChixify oh give me a break! Everything in this world is about millennials liking or disliking things and how we can market to them!
Really cute how the West had just discovered how to cook these crabs while people in Southeast Asia have been eating them throughout their lifetime lol
Preserving them raw in a jar of soysauce and topping on sushi rice is one way of enjoying crab meat.
Ask some Koreans to search for “gejang” recipes.
I think its a no brainer to jump on these trends of invasive anything. So brilliant
The title sounds like the most random and oddly specific thing ever! 😂
Green crab and whiskey 🤣🤣💀
Such palatable delicacy is a great addition to my daily meal. 🦀🦀
Wonder if it could be used to replace other feed species for aquaculture?
Or become the aquaculture products themselves.
@@froilanflorentino1252 That would defeat the purpose.
@@froilanflorentino1252 why would you breed invasive species mate
@@nicestbastard that's what people do to catfish right.
@@bensmith9984 Sorry, these crabs are cultured in my country. There's no need for cultivation if their invasive population threatens your ecosystem. My bad hehe.
Send these over to California. We can make an environmentally friendly, keto diet, gluten-free, animal safe, free range, farm to table bio-fuel.
California is loaded with them.
Good comment.
They’re already there
In Veneto, Venice specifically, we eat these whole and deep fried when they're soft from the shed. They usually feed them egg right before frying them whole.
2:29 crab almost made it away but chose to clang on it💀
I live just south of port Joli in sable River Nova Scotia. I’ve had green crabs in a chinese restaurant. Cut in half, dipped in spicy batter and deep fried. Delicious.
Harvest them early (max 10cm in size), season, add batter, and deep fry them. Delicioussss. Or export them to Asia, where seafood is eaten more.
Alot of green crabs in a large KFC bucket, some fried potatoes, and a grape pop!
A bag of cool ranch doritos on the side.😎
Can we talk about the teacher who decided it would be better to work as a crab fisherman. I think that's a bigger problem than the green crab invasion.
Why? He makes more money. Has better hours. And it's probably less painful.
@@__cypher__ That's the problem.
@@lynardskynard2895 I'm dumb, please explain hahahahaha
@@froilanflorentino1252 if I understand the situation correctly, as an outsider, is that America has a problem of overworking & underpaying their teachers.
So much so that a lot of them had to quit to do something else that pays better & with less hours.
@@when_life_gives_you_limes Thanks, I didn't know that.
That orange crab 🦀 fat mixed in with your common spaghetti prep is heaven... try it.. 😋😋
They said this about lobster when they served it to inmates!! Now they are saying that lobsters are on the red list!!
Lobsters are stiol easentially cockroaches of the sea. It's hilarious how they're associaed with expensive food.
Lobsters served to inmates were also, like, crushed and blended. The preparation was half the punishment.
Excellent idea is to turn what others consider as trash or invaluable into desired product. Thumbs up!
Here in the philippines were eating it.. it cost around $3 per kiLo ..we use to cook it using coconut miLk combined with squash and string beans ..
That sounds delicious!!
Hats off to that Chef, doing his part.
When she said Americans don't have broad pallet for seafood. It answers my question how come it becomes invasive. 😅. I mean it's a crab 🦀🦀
Seafood tends to be expensive when you live 1000 miles from the sea.
I laughed, cause she sounded stupid in saying that.
@@vintagethrifter2114 Then live next to the sea duh problem solved your welcome.
@@WhenInDarknessSeekTheLight Worried about global warming and coastal flooding? Then don't live by the sea duh problem solved you're welcome.
0:06 There's only one thing for it a nail to the heart
If there’s a way to eat our way out of an ecological problem, sign me up!
As a Marylander who loves blue crabs, I am certainly open to trying the green crabs especially if I lived in New England.
In the phillipines we eat these we just fry them with salt and some oil and half cook them and they’re kinda fishy and smelly but they taste good
Very Cool Use of an Invasive Species!
You can make a paste like shrimp paste. You could probably dry them.
You could make a stock out of them.
You could do boil with other crab.
Damn US you could do alot of things with them and it will be healthy
I feel like the size of the crab could be contributing to the fact that not many are eating them. They could be thinking that it's too small to eat unlike big species like King Crab, snow crab, or Dungeness crab where there's a lot of meat to work with along with being easier to eat in general.
There are a ton of uses for small crabs, just look to where there crabs originated from and are not a problem. You'll find it integrated in the cuisine. So in this case, the easiest use is an inexpensive source of shellfish stock.
It's not being advertised. No one big has picked it up. Similar to lionfish.
Anyone who fishes north east coasts will know. These crabs have had a huge negative impact.
A biologist just for confirmation that the green crab invasion has now reached Alaska. It’s sending everyone in a frantic panic up here.
Unfortunately, they don't sell that whiskey outside of their home state :(
???I puked a lil in my moth just thinking about such a thing
@@basketcaseknapperdingusmcg7701 don’t knock it till you try it.
@@basketcaseknapperdingusmcg7701 dont judge it till you try it , it has a slight crabby flavour along with hit of spice and oak wiskey flavour in the background , it goes well i think
I once had an oyster beer and it was amazing. I wouldn’t doubt that a crab whiskey could be just as good.
These crabs are delicious and can be found in the rivers of Dominican Republic, specially in my hometown. We cook them with rice, soups, stewed, etc. Soooo good and tasty!!!
Can't they also be used for fertilizer? Just grind them up to dust and put it on the top soil.
I trap 1000-1500 lbs a day. Fertilizer / compost market would run 5-10 cents a lb. bait for my traps runs $50 a day, fuel on the water is $15, fuel to drive them to a processor runs $15.
We had Chinese Mitten Crabs show up in San Francisco Bay some years back. They really took off, then tapered off after that. They wouldn't allow them to be commercially fished due to a "lung fluke". The thought was that if allowed to be caught commercially, it would encourage planting of non-native species. That's California for you.
Sounds like the government should trap the crabs and make them into soup for soup kitchens.
weird this post hasn't gotten more 👍
@@NatetheGreat1984 your comment sound like those crypto bots that a crypto bot replied to you.
Some marine biologist needs to figure out if there's some hormone / temperature combination type of thing that will cause these green crab to moalt spontaneously.
Wonder how long it will take before these crabs appear on " So Expensive " series.
Folks, these dudes are ALIVE and they FEEL everything
Would make a fantastic garden emulsion product. If they can make it cheaper than current products then they’ll sell tons of it.
That's what I was thinking!
They can't compete there. They are not that easy to catch compared to minerals.
You would only get some dozens pounds for the price of a ton of chemical fertilizer
"Can we ever eat or drink enough of them to make a difference?" humans are extremely talented in making species going extinct so there is no doubt. As long as they taste good and are profitable, they'd be wiped out in no time.
Here in the Philippines we make crab meat paste with chili. It really taste good as an appetizer(Mixed with rice)
The crabs here looks the same. This is definitely marketable in asia.
A new development... Over in Washington State, in certain areas, sea otters have almost eradicated all the green crabs from their water ways. Which has been a blessing to their ecosystem.
If that crab species are abundance in my country, it will be food for many instead of pest that caused distraction in some area of fisheries
Where do you live?
Come and get them, we have billions of emm!
@@christinakasko2082 asia. We have many different types of crab here. Its a luxury food. Its expensive here
@@christinakasko2082 Philippines
@@jrgogol if only it was accessible
What do you mean there are no natural predators for green crabs in New England?
YOU are. Humans are the ultimate apex predator for all invasive species, especially if they are delicious. And crabs are sure delicious. 🦀 🦀
Yeah but having a natural predator within the ecosystem really helps thin their numbers out.
Amazing because years ago there were loads in the south west of France, and today they are very scarce!
I guess the French just eat it all?
I wonder if anyone has investigated if High Pressure Processing would make processing green crab meat profitable.
Crab shells, as well as other shellfish shells, are a great addition to any compost pile. Comprised mainly of calcium carbonate and the carbohydrate chitin, they produce a nutrient-rich compost. The extra calcium is a much welcome boost too for some types of plants. Fertilizer problem solved.
"invasive means inedible" - I've never met an American who ever says that.
Imagine having a massive session on crab whiskey then next day have a massive hangover with crab aromas on your breath 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Why not use it as a flavoring on chips?
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Crabs are the most delicious animals to ever exist. Why aren't people eating them?
In Southeast Asia, baby crabs are even a fairly popular snack. They have not had time to grow up, we have eaten.
Crab cakes anyone ? Maybe dehydrated crab for soups. Canned crab meat Perhaps real crab salad Or maybe just need a metal pail a lid and a boat fuel tank steam hose fill bucket with crabs ..steam to perfection bring some butter and claw crackers lobster picks plates and little melted butter dishes . Bon appetit . They're definitely A LOT better than eating bugs . In colonial America. Maine Lobster was not considered fine dining however it was a popular food for prisoners .
Next on the invasive species to delicious meal channel. a breaded lionfish sandwich
Indeed. Lionfish ceviche is tasty.
I wonder if cats could eat these crabs ?
Fry up the softshell crabs and you're sitting on GOLD
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Can use the crab to make pet food
Looks like crab is back on the menu boys 🦀 🦀🦀🦀
Soft shell crabs are the way to go. "Crab Poppers" can absolutely be sold to the public.
I think that if you're from the coast and have easy access to salt water, you're pallet is alot different compared to say Iowa where you're less likely to have an appetite for all seafood
People in Goa, have been cooking CRAB CURRY for decades. It's absolutely delicious.
This is the first time I’ve heard of green crabs 🦀