metro mud crab!!!

went down for a fish at eshed markets today no mullaway but a brown crab with very fat nippers got tangled in my line when i pulled it up a small crowd of people gathered around and sed it was a mud crab and very rare around here then i chucked it back. do mud crabs have a size limet? has any one ells seen a mud crab in the river before?


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mud crabs

Sun, 2012-07-01 21:28

 haven't seen any in the swan,however i have seen a couple in the mandurah estuary of a few years,maily over near the murry enters into the estuary

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 how big was it?

Sun, 2012-07-01 21:54

 how big was it?

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there have been a few caught

Sun, 2012-07-01 22:45

over the years at point peron ramp! so it could have been

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Did you take a photo?

Mon, 2012-07-02 06:44

Did you take a photo?

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Who says global warming is a

Mon, 2012-07-02 21:36

Who says global warming is a bad thing..LOL

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There was a couple of huge

Tue, 2012-07-03 20:08

There was a couple of huge ones caught in a estuary near Bunbury a few years ago. Was in the papers

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There was a couple of huge

Tue, 2012-07-03 20:08

There was a couple of huge ones caught in a estuary near Bunbury a few years ago. Was in the papers

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