Crab ID
Submitted by dodgy on Tue, 2013-06-25 08:56
Will put this one out to the masses. Mate caught it off Port Hedland while chasing Bluies. I haven't seen these around before. Any ideas?
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deepwater
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Coral Crabs
we would get alought of them prawning in Exmouth gulf ,they are good eating better than the blues
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crasny1
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Agree
Pity they are hard to catch
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wadetolley
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We
We used to get them in the Trawler nets as well, very tasty indeed. Ours used to be a bit more orange in colour.
FISH-ON
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caught it before and would be
caught it before and would be good to know what it is
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carnarvonite
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Coral crab
They get quite a few of them in Shark Bay when chasing the blueys
Brucesta
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right they are going in the
right they are going in the esky next time i get out for a feed, usually get a few every now and then, seen quite a few off jarman island before, threw about 4 back one day god damm it
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bitten
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Mmm coral crabs used to get
Mmm coral crabs used to get them when I was crabbing professionally in ccarnarvom they taste prety good not sure they're better than a nice big bluet though, really rich almost BBQ type flavour