What a crab
Submitted by meglodon on Thu, 2016-07-21 17:36
We have all seen some good size photos of "blueies" posted up in various reports on this site. How would you like to get your 10 limit of these from the Swan.
Catching them from a depth of 800 metres might be a bit off putting unless you have a good winch.
Page 47 of todays West Australian has a photo of what is truly a King Crab.
I would li9ke to see them grab and sort these like they do i9n "Deadliest Catch", one of those nippers hanging onto your thumb or hand would certainly wake you up.
I have no idea of what sort of pot they use to catch these but it would want to be a damn good strong one I should think.
carnarvonite
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Snow crabs
They use plastic cray pots to catch them attached to a longline, pulled about once every 7-14 days.
Most times they only have seconds to tie the claws and get them into refrigerated water before they cark it.
clayd
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Here's the link to the
Here's the link to the article online au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/32103487/deep-sea-crab-trade-focused-on-future/#page1
Mostly target Crystal (Snow) Crabs, with Kings and Champange (Spiny) being more of a by-product. Love eating these, expecially the claws. The cutlery you put on the table is a bit interesting though - with the primary tool being a hammer.
Jackfrost80
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My brother did some work
My brother did some work with fisheries straight out of uni staying on the boat and measuring these crabs caught by the pros.
I can tell you they taste very good!
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
sea-kem
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I used to do work for a
I used to do work for a fairl wealthy chinese fella and he used to take us to his restaurant every Friday for lunch of platters of snow crab and cray cooked in garlic sauce. Gotta say I loved those days.
Love the West!
timboon
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My uncle has about 13 T
My uncle has about 13 T quota in the southern and northern zones in SA, I worked on his boat for a couple of years back in the day. We used to use lines of 5 pots approx 25 fathoms apart ( the regular southern type of cray pot/not slatted ) but instead of having stainless wire like the cray fishos use we used to use the Cod end out of deep sea trawl nets, that way they can squash the mesh but it doesnt do it damage. The survival rate was no worries Canarvon, we didnt chill the water we just had them in the well until we offloaded and my uncle has big holding tanks in his shed until there is enough that a buyer will travel from Vic to come and pick em up. Unlike crays that are about 50% shell to meat the crabs are much lower so it beats me why the crazy bastards pay what they do for them... The meat is very sweet and you dont need to much of it really. The biggest i remember us getting was a 10.5 kg beast and he still was just in a normal pot with the normal red placcy neck, was hard to believe he got in there in the first bloody place!!