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Blue Crabs: Catch 'em, Cook 'em, Eat 'em
Blue Catch 'em, Cook 'em, Eat 'em is a practical, entertaining, well-illustrated guide to blue crabs and crabbing along the US East and Gulf Coasts. Provides guidance on catching, cooking, picking, and eating crabs. Healthy, lower-fat (but tasty) recipes are emphasized. Includes extensive information about Callinectes sapidus (the blue crab) as well.
128 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2002
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February 21, 2008
Last year I got a new obsession, crabbing. And when I say “obsession,” it’s not hyperbole – after I went on the docks in Long Island and New Jersey for the first time in July I was in crab overdrive for the next 3 months, only foiled when I wrecked my car on Southern State Parkway in October on my way out to the Captree docks. I then went into withdrawal and finally remission by Christmas, helped along by my current obsession – reading about crabs.
That said, I must say that most of the joy of crabbing is simply pulling up a trap and seeing what’s in it (besides blue crabs, I caught spider crabs, leopard crabs, hermit crabs, puffers, croakers, baby bluefish and one summer fluke), so there’s not much an instructional book can tell you. I’d even venture to say the subtitle “Catch ‘Em, Cook ‘Em, Eat ‘Em” conveys the necessary instructions sufficiently.
But the book did tell me a few things I didn’t know from 3 months of crabbing, like some alternate methods of crabbing, like scapping (a fancy term for catching them with a net), trotlining, handlining (basically, throw a chicken leg out in a piece of string and pull it back when you feel a crab eating it) and seining. There a re also some recipes that sound worth a try, and some scientific information that was moderately fascinating – did you know, for example, that crabs are the marine equivalent of spiders, and the only reason they’re bigger is that the water helps support the weight of their shell? Maybe you did, but I didn’t. Hey, I was an English major.
That said, I must say that most of the joy of crabbing is simply pulling up a trap and seeing what’s in it (besides blue crabs, I caught spider crabs, leopard crabs, hermit crabs, puffers, croakers, baby bluefish and one summer fluke), so there’s not much an instructional book can tell you. I’d even venture to say the subtitle “Catch ‘Em, Cook ‘Em, Eat ‘Em” conveys the necessary instructions sufficiently.
But the book did tell me a few things I didn’t know from 3 months of crabbing, like some alternate methods of crabbing, like scapping (a fancy term for catching them with a net), trotlining, handlining (basically, throw a chicken leg out in a piece of string and pull it back when you feel a crab eating it) and seining. There a re also some recipes that sound worth a try, and some scientific information that was moderately fascinating – did you know, for example, that crabs are the marine equivalent of spiders, and the only reason they’re bigger is that the water helps support the weight of their shell? Maybe you did, but I didn’t. Hey, I was an English major.
November 10, 2014
Chock full of information about Blue Crabs. Who is ready to go crabbing with me?!
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