Crab ID

 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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Coral Crabs

Tue, 2013-06-25 09:04

we would get alought of them prawning in Exmouth gulf ,they are good eating better than the blues

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Agree

Tue, 2013-06-25 09:06

Pity they are hard to catch

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We

Tue, 2013-06-25 10:55

We used to get them in the Trawler nets as well, very tasty indeed. Ours used to be a bit more orange in colour.

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caught it before and would be

Tue, 2013-06-25 11:22

caught it before and would be good to know what it is

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Coral crab

Tue, 2013-06-25 11:28

They get quite a few of them in Shark Bay when chasing the blueys

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right they are going in the

Tue, 2013-06-25 15:30

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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 Mmm coral crabs used to get

Thu, 2013-06-27 22:47

 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