Snow crabs
Submitted by blitzed on Mon, 2012-07-30 19:41
Went out and pulled a few crab pots off Freo with a Pro I know. Depth varied from about 350 to 400 fathoms. Apparently the tastiest crab in the world and I can vouch for that. When they are caught they are put in to about 8 degrees of water to revive because that is the temp they are usually in. They get exported live to China Asia.
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scotto
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Cool
Wow, catching a crab I never knew we got here, and sending it straight over seas.
It'd be good to see it in a few seafood shops here.
BIG TUNA
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nice work boys :D scotto you
nice work boys :D
scotto you can get them at redfin fresh seafood in vic park !
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till
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We see the pots for them out
We see the pots for them out wide. The cray boys get them when they're about as far out as the bother going.
flexn
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Had them a few times at
Had them a few times at chinese resteraunts around town. They are real nice and pretty popular. And you can buy them locally as well
hayden
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Mmmmmmm yummy watering out
Mmmmmmm yummy watering out off the mouth had my first back when i was 15 on crayboat yummy....
I have wanted to do this back in the day even looked at buying a boat to start that dream got crushed haha
deepwater
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Snow crabs
Good stuff there blitzed,i used to do that back in the day ,i worked on the Naiby Queen 5 out off freo and i was out of canarvon for afue trips as well
we used 500 pots out off perth and 900 out of canarvon ,how many pots are you using mate ??
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Buz
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Deadliest Catch style!!!!!
Deadliest Catch style!!!!! hahahaha.
blitzed
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Hey deepwater, he runs two
Hey deepwater, he runs two seperate lines of 150 pots and pulls them every 5 days or so, pretty interesting, the boat is called Wave Action
sea-kem
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Singaporean guy I did work
Singaporean guy I did work for had a share in a Chinese restaurant and used to cook up platters of them in a garlic sauce absolutely beautiful and meaty.
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scott99
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wow
cool crab
big john
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Nice
Certainly look tasty. Be living in a nice clean environment out that deep too I imagine.
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Chongy
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Wave action
Spent 4 years on that boat outa Gero copped a good wave around African reef ripped a fair bit of the roof off hahaha
blitzed
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Steamed it in electric frypan
Steamed it in electric frypan in its own broken up shell with a little bit of butter and put the lid on and it was .... O Maria.
Lamby
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Cracker of a post, cheers
Cracker of a post, cheers
milsey
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Very interesting, Are all
Very interesting, Are all the pots linked? 300 pots with over 700m of rope would be madness
blitzed
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Hey milsey, yes all the pots
Hey milsey, yes all the pots are linked off one main line but he does it in two seperate lines away from each other, its more like 5 kilometers foe each line as is very deep. cheers
dkonig82
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Interesting post, thanks for
Interesting post, thanks for posting.
Still never tried one of those crabs!
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My old man goes on and on
My old man goes on and on about these snow crabs! Looking foward to a feed of them one day
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Ryan C
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snow crabs
interesting read mate, i worked on the flying fish 5 out of esperance targeting snow crabs and the giant king crabs (Mulataga king crabs) in 600 to 1000m of water the kings can get as large as a beer carton and have the meanest claws you have ever seen!. cheers
blitzed
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The boat I went out on fishes
The boat I went out on fishes for king crabs off Cape Leeuwin Windy harbour at times and the bottom of his pots are pretty munted from the claw damage from the kings, they rekon they dont come off easily, they fetch a higher price also.
COASTALJOY
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it looks like fairly calm
it looks like fairly calm water out that far
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Blitzed
Is the second pic a King Crab?
Nice post mate. Interesting read.
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Colt_Striker
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Very intersting mate, good
Very intersting mate, good stuff
blitzed
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Crasny1, it is a snow but
Crasny1, it is a snow but hasnt moulted for a while. they seem to be a bit heavier, more meat I would rekon, they look like they have been groverling around in the mud.
meglodon
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interesting post thanks blitzed
thanks for sharing some real interesting photos,I saw a couple of these crabs for sale in the freo markets a few weeks back,thought they were a bit pricey but after seeing how deep you have to fish for them perhaps the price isn't to bad. Do the crabs enter the pot via the top hole or do you have to modify the plastic pots.
blitzed
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Hey meglodon, they enter thru
Hey meglodon, they enter thru the top whole, the pots seem to be standard cray pots. King crabs apparently dont come north of Cape Naturaliste
meglodon
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thanks for the info
thanks for the answer blitzed i was just wondering how they got in as they are a big crab
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amazing fishery we have out
amazing fishery we have out here. never would have thought these would be out there.they look nice and meaty
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I like the crab in the kill
I like the crab in the kill tank..... looking up as if to say "let me outta here"