GotGarlic said:Hi, Breezy. I was wondering if there is a difference between blue-claw crabs and blue crabs - looks like they're the same thing: Blue Crab Facts
Does the name blue-claw refer to the males? They have blue claws, while the females have pink claws.
My dad was stationed in Annapolis, Maryland for a few years and we lived on base right on the Chesapeake Bay. I remember "crabbing" off the piers and then having huge crab boils on the beach area almost every evening in the summer. There were huge brick pits built right on the beach and I can remember these enormous pots the adults boiled the crabs in. There was always music and limbo contests and all sorts of wonderful activities so that's what comes to mind whenever I have crab. I wish I could remember what kind of crabs or even what they looked like but I was really young.keltin said:Growing up in Mobile on the Gulf Coast with our land sitting on beach front property with a pier and dingy, I ran 4 or more crab traps (Uncle Bob probably knows what these are) constantly…..
I bet they were blue crabs - they're really big in MD, too.Fisher's Mom said:My dad was stationed in Annapolis, Maryland for a few years and we lived on base right on the Chesapeake Bay. I remember "crabbing" off the piers and then having huge crab boils on the beach area almost every evening in the summer. There were huge brick pits built right on the beach and I can remember these enormous pots the adults boiled the crabs in. There was always music and limbo contests and all sorts of wonderful activities so that's what comes to mind whenever I have crab. I wish I could remember what kind of crabs or even what they looked like but I was really young.
That's sooo funny! It's why I love kids - they'll just say what they're thinking, even if they look like goofs. And actually, it was only recently that I learned the red crabs I eat didn't start out that color!GotGarlic said:I bet they were blue crabs - they're really big in MD, too.
My DH used to be a high school science teacher. One day he was teaching a class that had to do with the health of the Chesapeake Bay (not good) and how the blue crab population was declining. One student said, "Why don't people just eat the red ones, like we do?"