Florida Stone Crab: October to May
Vložit
- čas přidán 27. 09. 2010
- Every year, from October to May, a small fleet of fishermen work the offshore waters of southwest Florida, harvesting one of the state's most prized delicacies -- stone crabs.
Follow us!
Facebook: / wgcupublicmedia
Twitter: / wgcu
Instagram: / wgcupublicmedia
Producer: Lynne Frazer
WGCU PBS & NPR for Southwest Florida
Florida Stone Crab: October to May
#WGCU #StoneCrab #SustainableSeafood - Sport
They survive just fine and their claws grow back and the cycle continues. The industry is managed pretty well
Lived in Florida for 35 years stone crabs at joes stone crabs they have there on boats fabulous claws
That's hard work, just watching made my back hurt, and the overhead has got to be very high. My hats off to you, be careful.
Wow! Liked this video.
My father was a fisherman in Cuba I never will forget how many stone crabs we ated a home always remember Arturo Palenzuela God bless you😍💯
This was awesome to read !!
🙏🏿👍🏿💯
This was awesome to read 🙏🏿👍🏿
Labor of love,no doubt about it!💪👍
Fascinating to watch, I would never have considered removing their claws and returning them.
That is easy work! Think King Crab! - Now that's beyond hard core Work
I live in South Florida... If you haven't had them, they are some of the best tasting crab in the world.. Steam them, then serve chilled with a mustard based dipping sauce.. The Vid is correct in that it's a sustainable fishery, since only one claw is removed and the crab is returned to the water.. The crab will regrow a new claw.. Definitely a delicacy when the Jumbo claws are up to $40lb
You're right.... The assholes not supposed to do that.. They are supposed to leave one remaining claws so the crab can feed and defend itself..
+Robert Ciulla the law states that you can take both however it is encouraged to leave one, when you do it for a living you need both
Awesomely good eatin’ ! A delicacy for me, as they are expensive. Its hit or miss to get, as too many things affect if & how much is harvested.
informative video thank you
27.99 a pound holy shit! I can get a piazza soda and wings instead of a pound of crab claws.
They use the claws to hunt and eat and for defending them self. When I saw the video it said they grow the claws, I figured it was a matter of days or hours, but by the end of the video, they mention it takes crabs a year for the claws to grow back.
How can the crab manage to eat when both claws removed?
You shouldn't take both claws... the crabs still need some form of defense.
Kyle Messer They regenerate.
Not if it's dead.
+Kyle Messer Did you get you degree in fishery biologist from U of M or is this a personal theory?
They need to feed in order to regenerate. They can't feed if both claws are removed.
@@antonyjh1234 Would you provide the title and authors for that source?
Liked the video... Would like to know where to find the crab traps that you are using...
Interesting vid. I wonder why they do not run trawls of 30 or 40 traps. Gear losses would be a lot less as there would be so little top gear and efficiency might improve. Don;t know. Interesting fishery for sure.
The narrator has an epic voice.
Aw yes the commercial fisherman
do it still have
love stone crabs, harder shell but better meat
I thought you could only take one claw?
I live in Florida,An hour or so from the coast.Never see Florida Fish or crabs in the markets.Guess you must be at the docks if you can get any.99% exported out of Fl.
Damn in 1983 we stone crab out of marinis 2 deck hands 1 captain we pulled 750 a day, Roy Rodgers.
This video was shot in Isla Capri where there’s like 10 boats 15 boats tops Everglades City has five times as many boats as they do and we were the first ones to invent the stone crab trap and find the stone crabs in Everglades City Florida. I’m sick of all these other places trying to take credit for it. They have not been doing it half as long as the people in Everglades City, Florida.
At sea the traps are baited with pigs' feet. The tough longlasting lure can attract lures for weeks.
tkjho mullets oil catches more stone crabs but is a little more expensive.
Who is the pedal steel player on your soundtrack..?
The claws regenerate don't they?
best eating there is
looks like everglades city
I bought fell over laughing when I seen them using a milk crate for a crab trap. That’s how you know they don’t have a clue
Do the pig's feet grow back?
Ask your mum
I seen before that they limited fishermen to only one claw in florida and suspected it was a state wide thing.
I'm going to tell you this year so far fantastic crab a little low on the numbers but absolutely delicious get out there and support your local fisherman get them up grab them up buy them while you can go Florida
As a reply to the people saying that it is cruel or asking why not harvest the entire crab ect....
Stone crabs reproduce much slower than other crabs such as blue crabs. Stone crabs can bury in the mud for 2-3 months while they grow a new claw. Whoever said stone crabs only use their claws for protection is wrong. Stone crabs use their claws to bust open clams and muscles and conch and other types of shellfish for food. Stone crabs do not eat plankton. The number 1 predator to a stone crab are octopus, which can not harm the crab when it is buried in the mud. Rather than kill the crab just harvest the claws..There was a time where it was only legal to harvest one claw but it was later discovered via research that they live just fine without their claws....It is however illegal to take claws from a egg bearing female who does need their claw for defense.
LOL you remove the crab claws without damaging the crabs allowing the claws to grow back? How the fuck does he survive with no claws lol
+VenomistGaming Same thought, they use the claws to hunt and eat and for defending them self.
Well they obviously can survive somehow.
But It looks like the smaller crabs they're only taking off 1 and 2 off of the bigger ones.
I want to do that
Never had stone crab i wonder what they taste like i live in Maryland blue crab central
much more flavor than blue, like king crab claws, i eat chilled with mustard sauce (garlic, mayo, mustard and lemon mix) yummy!
Do they test the claw for poison from the oil spill?
Can anyone please transcribe what she says in between 2:41 and 2:44? Thank you!!!
where can I go to catch stone crabs?i live in holiday fl.
The Sponge Docks
ow do the crabs survive without claws?
+AARON B They can be harvested 3 times before the crab gets too old and dies.
Da fug is a crab to do without claws for a year, get hand fed?
He has two claws. Fishermen take one. The crab's claws are sacrificial. Let the octopus have one and leave!
U can clearly see them brake both claws off look closely
How come they dont show us a picture of the whole crab. Yes I think we all realize that crabs have Pincher's
because they aren't harvesting the whole crab, that's not the market.
why not breed it ?
No with them claws, they will bite you.
Is there a reason they have to be cooked right away?
They don't keep well unless cooked. Turns to mush.
God I'm hungry...
I thought you could only remove one claw I guess I'm wrong.
You can remove both if they are of size. The chance they live and regrow the claws is drastically reduced if you remove both though as opposed to just removing one.
I live in Florida and I’m pretty sure you are only allowed to take one claw one season then the next claw the next season.
Here in the Channel Islands it is illegal to land any shell fish claw crab 🦀 lobster 🦞 or crawfish 🦞
You have to land the whole thing and the legal size limit is strictly adhered to
There are heavy fines if you are caught
no you can take both claws the crabs don,t have many predators mostly octopus and if they had both claws they would loose the battle 95% of the time. I crabbed for 20 yrs.
ok, wtf are they doing taking both claws? I thought it was illegal to do that? aren't they supposed to leave one for the crab to defend itself with?
Ll.
One pound is like one person to eat . Try add 4 to 10 people.
$28 a pound..damm
that's cheap considering it's just the claws in bali whole crab is $20/kg
What does a license cost? What is required to get a license.
haha a lot. here in quebec, canada, it depends on what kind of species you wanna work whit. Exemple: a snow crab license will cost you over a million bucks (most of the time, because you can get it like from the wife of a fisherman who died, and may have it cheaper) but its always around 2 millions. also to buy a license you need minimally 2 years of declared ecperience. and then if you wanna enter the fishing industrie someone must be leaving it and then you take his place. Now you need a boat and traps and everything and you need to know mechanic very well haha. a boat is around 500 000$. Easy dont you think!
**sorry for the english i usually talk French.
What on earth? So basically you have to be a millionaire to afford a snow crab license? That's outrageous
I am surprised that this is the first time you have noticed how outrageous licensing laws can be. Because of our overpopulation, the issuing of licenses to take or use natural resources have started to become draconian while many times making the lucky licensee very wealthy. In the past, the startup of being a fin fisherman or shell fisherman were fairly simple once a boat was found and many families were able to make a satisfactory living from such resources but those days are pretty much gone to the dust bin of history. We will now begin to see where the ONLY good future options for children will be to follow in the family businesses.
The easyest way is to work for someone who got lots of license and boat, then prove yourself and he can assign you a boat and put the license on your name and you can be a captain and receive a direct part of the income of ''your'' boat! but no fisherman start why crab, except of it's in the family. Usually we start whit sea urchin or whelk which have cheaper license and require less equipment. And you dont necessarily have to BE a millionnaire, if you got a good plan for the bank they will give it to you but god you must have good catch to get that money back. Not to scare you but there is a high rates of suicide due to financial stress in the fishing industrie. And then the family takes the debt.
A Dungeness license in Oregon with the associated licenses is ony a few hundred dollars but the equipment is not cheap and the risk of failure is the same.
I've been commercial fishing since I was about 5 when my father brought me Into it. I started out working summers grouper fishing and when I got older I would stone crab on the weekends in citrus county Florida. I love commercial fishing, and I'm now 19 years old and although I don't do it anymore I still love it and hope commercial fishing industries make a come back in the future and hopefully I can get back into it!
So you dont keep the body what no meat there
how will they catch there food without claws.
I am in broward county where can I go to catch salt sea blue🦀 with 🐠 Line
Please it's the Broward county #bus I take
I don't have access to a 🚗 car
They cost three times as much now 13 years later.
u guys dont know shit im only 15 and ive got my own boat and all my traps for stone crab these guys are realll they know what the fuck there doing ive only been doing for 2 years they changed the one claw to two claws a year go
Although it is currently lawful to harvest both of a stone crab's claws, this practice leaves the stone crab with few alternatives to defend itself from predators. :/
No wonder they cost so much ..
Lady says "many sons are not following their fathers footsteps and continue crab fishing." um...id go for the college degree.
Aw $700.00 dollars in the hole before you start.
boat coat too
stone crabs are plankton feeders the claws are for defense.
We remove the claws as we pull the traps your killing the crabs by leaving them in the braker box 600 traps a day gives you plenty of time to break as you go get rid of the green horns your making the stone craber that do it the right way look bad and your depleting the industry the way you crab you know better your a veteran crabbier I have been a stone craber for 23 season so I know most of those crabs you leave in the breaker box die and you break there legs off so do it the right way I still need a job
Allen Lolly hey man I know all the Lolly's up in Crystal River,yelp piled up checkers kills crabs too also not knowing how to snap the claw. Your people surely talk about how catches were a hell of a lot better before the 2 claw introduction years ago!
I had no opinion of the commercial fisherman until I seen these guys taking both claws. People should just get them on their own and let people that take both just because they can go out of business. No claws leaves the crab vulnerable to predators and only able to obtain minimal nutrition. Along with the stress of regenerating both claws it is just irresponsible. Private citizens in boats have limits of 2 gallons of claws per boat or one gallon per person giving these commercial fishermen the lion share of the harvesting. We did this when I was a child and even as children we understood leaving the crab with one claw insured we had them in the future. Just because you can do something stupid, doesn't mean you should.
Thank you
I was shocked and deeply saddened. There truly is STUPID IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE! 🤔😡🤨
$27.99/lbs. Sure.
This video is 8 years old? Time for an update. These crabbers may be gone by now. Laws may have changed. One claw or two claws in 2018? One claw would cut your profit in half. Could crab fishermen survive that? Good video but time for a new one with current crabbers.
We could only take one claw. I guess the law changed?
the future of stone crab is solid! until you made them extinct...
N.
Oh yeah... Now I recall...Stone crabbing.. That's where you smoke weed and try to...Ohhh...you mean 'STONE" crabs... Uhhh... nevermind...[LOL] Was that someone knocking on my door?...
Good Fishing the species will decline faster by removing the 2 claws in Ireland even when prices were bad one would never throw back a crab with one claw,It cannot crunch up its food with its legs,Greed will be the extinction of a way of life,
If
Makes you feel so sorry for these guys, only earning some $200,000+ a year!
If you people commenting on the practices here spent a day or more with these fishermen you might be more accepting of their practices. There is now a harder or more demanding job in our world. Further, the fish (crabs in this case) don't know when the rent is due and don't have to bite.
can't sell the whole crab or we would.
Chickens
Why are they wasting so much time doing manual scraping ? Didnt you people ever here about high pressure heated washers ?
mite aswell take the whole crab and make more cash
hahaha
Uh I don't get it.! How do they live with out any!!! I was a Commercial Snapper Permit Holder & king & Tuna
I know National Marine Fisheries Monitor Everything very well.
I doubt they would post it here if not True.
Yup. Commercial gets away with everything. Recreation fishers are only aloud to take one so the crabs chance of survival is better. Rules are always bent for commercial fisher. But when fish or crab population is low they always blame the recreation fishers.
Cousins Grimm Ha. More like the other way around, especially up here in NC.
And sorry my great grandfather was stone crabbing in the 60s in Everglades city fl stone crab capital of the world there’s more stone crab boats in EVERGLADES CITY than anywhere else. It did not start in the 90s there was 40 boats in Everglades City in the 80s and 90s. We’ve always had the most boats in the most traps it’s a proven fact seafood festival. It’s been going on for ever. My grandpa was one of the five guys that started it. I’m a fourth generation stone grabber. This video is wrong.
The only problem is that the traps are made of plastic...and if they loose 10% of traps all that plastic goes all around the ocean.
Matter of fact Tallahassee,has laws on Commercial fishing from 93 net laws on mullet nets, shrimp Ted's boundaries ,bay scallops,driven out of Crystal and Hommasassa bays,from Florida powers hot water discharge back in the 90's we were blamed on over catching,oops better hush on that one.Sure all the laws implemented since those times haven't been reviewed. If the Commercial fishing industry in Florida is any better than how it was in the 80's n before. Bring it on jack prevail. Off penny a pound on all seafood product,crossing fishhouse docks didn't amount to squat. Florida has lots of seafood,but Tallahassee gets in the way and sides to farm raised n imported products. Florida Commercial Fishermen get treasond on by its own State Capital,bottom line!!!!!!!!
Won't be a future the way its going
Bill stop dying your hair!!…you earn every grey hair you get. Every business has an operating expense stop complaining.
Interesting video..bit boring voice
All commercial fishing of any kind should be banned watch videos of those multi million dollar fishing boats and see what they call by catch that is wasted and we wonder why the oceans are being depleted 🤨 want fish get a rod and reel and go catch one !
Could they have come up with a better narrator? Sounds like a documentary for how to be a mortician.
Just kill the crab, if you're going to take both claws.
they can still live without their claws
It's horrible and inhumane. WTF is wrong with people?