Alaska's snow crab season canceled for the first time ever

[CindyE]

Blue crab?

I'll take crawfish over blue crabs, they have better flavor and not that much less meat.

Used to go crabbing in Louisiana, I'll take crab over crawdads any day! I just never really liked them much.

 

[Creedmoor]

Blue crab?

I'll take crawfish over blue crabs, they have better flavor and not that much less meat.

Both are excellent, but im guessing you've never seen or eaten Maryland or Virginia #1 Jimmys. And the Chesapeake has brackish salt water water, unlike all the coastal blue crabs from high salinity water.
If I want swamp bugs I go to LA, AL or Miss, if I want blue crabs I go to Md or Va. But if we are talking about the better Crustacean i'd rather have a cold water lobster in Maine.

 

[Ingomike]

Bes

Both are excellent, but im guessing you've never seen or eaten Maryland or Virginia #1 Jimmys. And the Chesapeake has brackish salt water water, unlike all the coastal blue crabs from high salinity water.
If I want swamp bugs I go to LA, AL or Miss, if I want blue crabs I go to Md or Va. But if we are talking about the better Crustacean i'd rather have a cold water lobster in Maine.

Best crab I ever had was in a small bar near Annapolis that had a Wednesday night $10 crab cake dinner about 15 years ago in prime crab season. Two of those were a filling meal.

 

[buckwacker]

I'm wondering what environmental situation caused this.

Global warming, duh. Errrr....climate change.

 

[Creedmoor]

Global warming, duh. Errrr....climate change.

Geesh. Its from Clean Coal Technology...

 

[HoughMade]

A manufactured food shortage is coming…..

I think it's brilliant of them to start with something a fraction of the populace cares about....except for the TV show.

 

[rooster]

I think it's brilliant of them to start with something a fraction of the populace cares about....except for the TV show.

36 million pounds is nothing to sneeze at though. https://www.foxweather.com/lifestyle/alaskas-snow-crab-season

 

[Creedmoor]

One would think, leave the season open and see if the watermen can find them.

 

[two70]

Both are excellent, but im guessing you've never seen or eaten Maryland or Virginia #1 Jimmys. And the Chesapeake has brackish salt water water, unlike all the coastal blue crabs from high salinity water.
If I want swamp bugs I go to LA, AL or Miss, if I want blue crabs I go to Md or Va. But if we are talking about the better Crustacean i'd rather have a cold water lobster in Maine.

I've had them in Virginia and Florida and I couldn't taste a difference between the two. They were nowhere close to the better tasting, meatier crabs like snow or king. Really not worth the effort to pick them, IMO. I tend to think blues are more a vessel for the seasoning than a delicacy in and of themselves. Lobster is good every now and then but I prefer snow or king crab over it most of the time. I'll also take jumbo Indiana crawfish over the southern swamp bugs.

 

[two70]

Used to go crabbing in Louisiana, I'll take crab over crawdads any day! I just never really liked them much.

I think with crawdads it really makes a huge difference where they came from and how they're prepared.. To me they're not much more than edible in a boil but are great properly cleaned then fried.

Dang it, now I'm hungry for a crawfish trio from Pappdeaux!

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I think with crawdads it really makes a huge difference where they came from and how they're prepared.. To me they're not much more than edible in a boil but are great properly cleaned then fried.

Dang it, now I'm hungry for a crawfish trio from Pappdeaux!

I've only ever had crawdad tails on Jockamo Pizza's "Po Boy Pizza". Obviously there's not a lot of meat there, and no way I'm gonna "suck the heads" like they do down south.

 

[Creedmoor]

I've had them in Virginia and Florida and I couldn't taste a difference between the two. They were nowhere close to the better tasting, meatier crabs like snow or king. Really not worth the effort to pick them, IMO. I tend to think blues are more a vessel for the seasoning than a delicacy in and of themselves. Lobster is good every now and then but I prefer snow or king crab over it most of the time. I'll also take jumbo Indiana crawfish over the southern swamp bugs.

You have to understand, with us its also a social event. We learn how to pick as little kids, Most sit and pick for hours..

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I'll also take jumbo Indiana crawfish over the southern swamp bugs.

I remember as a kid, our church had a big pond out front and we'd find some huge crawdads - like nearly 5 or 6" long. Now those would be worth eating for sure!

 

[jdeanp]

This just makes me hungry.

 

[two70]

I've only ever had crawdad tails on Jockamo Pizza's "Po Boy Pizza". Obviously there's not a lot of meat there, and no way I'm gonna "suck the heads" like they do down south.

Yes, there's not a lot of meat there and boiling them whole taints the meat a bit in my opinion whether you "suck the heads" or not. If I'm doing it myself I prefer to remove the head section, thoroughly clean the tail section then dunk the whole tail section, shell and all, in seasoned flour.

 

[two70]

You have to understand, with us its also a social event. We learn how to pick as little kids, Most sit and pick for hours..

I can definitely see that.

Good diet food too... you can eat for hours and still not consume much!

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I think it's brilliant of them to start with something a fraction of the populace cares about....except for the TV show.

First they came for the crab legs, and I said nothing because it was such a pain in the ass to get the meat out of the shell.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

First they came for the crab legs, and I said nothing because it was such a pain in the ass to get the meat out of the shell.

Maybe they should cross boneless chickens with crabs to make shell-less crabs.

 

[Creedmoor]

I can definitely see that.

Good diet food too... you can eat for hours and still not consume much!

Thats because you were sold vacationeers crabs. Locals get the worthy ones.
You were hoosiered in Virginia.

 

[Creedmoor]

Maybe they should cross boneless chickens with crabs to make shell-less crabs.

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They call it,wait for it.....
.... a crabcake.




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