Harvesting Invasive Green Crabs
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- Опубліковано 27 жов 2021
- The European Green Crab is one of the most pervasive and voracious marine invasive species in American waters. In York, Maine, Mike Masi is piloting a business that harvests soft-shell green crabs, putting the crabs to use. Dr. Gabriela Bradt, fisheries specialist for NH Sea Grant & UNH Extension, has been instrumental in sharing science-based techniques with prospective harvesters as the green crab fishery develops and market demand grows.
Learn more about New Hampshire Sea Grant's Green Crab program on our website:
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For a video that takes a deeper dive into the science and methods involved in soft-shell green crab harvesting, watch "Soft-shell Green Crabs 101": • Soft-Shell Green Crabs...
Mike I really think you have something here. I wish you could partner with Taku on Outdoor Chef and get these and the purple Uni on the West Coast to a sushi market, I LOVE softshell crab and fresh Sea Urchin and we have both as invasive species in the US. If you could market this to the sushi industry people like myself would regularly consume it.
They also make great compost for your vegetable gardens. I trap them by the bucket full and after a quick dunk in boiling water, I turn them into my gardens or compost bin.
The hard shell ones might be good to make really good animal food to? Although I’m sure you guys have thought about this. Could be used as fish food or pig food. I have heard of people actually feeding their pigs various algae and weeds from the ocean and rivers two up the omega-3 continent I hope that this will work too!
What about boiling a whole lot of these guys who aren't very edible and aren't molting, down to make stock? The shells could be discarded after their essence has flavored the broth. Maybe a soup company could use them in large bulk numbers. Thank you for all of your efforts. I grew up in a time (I'm 75) when soft shell steamers ("piss" clams from Massachusetts) were plentiful in our better seafood restaurants here in Philadelphia, Pa. Now, you can't get them. I've only today become aware of the problem of green crabs, after asking around why I can no longer find them on menus.
Here in Guernsey I have noticed a big decline over the years in the green crab population, at the same time the lobster population has exploded. They are also a great fishing bait even better when soft shell.
Sell the soft shell to restaurants for $.50 restaurants sell them for $3. Get people addicted to soft green crabs! Cheap & Delicious
Fertilizer and soil amendment might be good way to use.
I had to shut you off because of the loud music.
That’s Tog Bait!
They need state or federally funded bounties. Some municipalities have had bounties, but the pay was just too low to make an impact. You would have to catch a ton of green crab, just to make $750. Thats not feasible.
These crabs are extremely popular bait in New England for Tautog (blackfish), scup (porgies), black sea bass, fluke, and more.
Thank you so much!! Have an interview on the west coast regarding the invasive green crab. Thanks for the info!!!
They are really just an all around great fish bait also.
I guess an easy way to do it would be to glue different colored beads or something to the top of the shell so that way when they molt you know when they have new shells. And you can also tell when you caught the crab or if it is a catch and release and you caught it later by the color or lack thereof
They also make great pasta sauce. And you can use hardshell greens for that too.
During the fall Tautog season, I go thru a bushell a week. 👍
idk about eating them but I love to eat the fish they catch. I live in Maryland and they're shipped down to us alive to use as bait. fantastic for any crustacean eating fish. blackfish, sheepshead, black sea bass, porgy, black drum, red drum, striped bass, and more. I've even caught flounder on them. fantastic bait.
Maybe make crab stock out of the harder-shellled ones, would taste nice.
Holy moly was just out crabbing and caught a bunch of these and a new friend told us about these. I thought it was green kelp crab. But after arriving home my wife and I were just talking about this can be a something turned into a buisness...BAM this video pops up lol
They make really good bait for catching blackfish/tautog in the coastal waters of the northeastern United States