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Order Stone Crabs Online - Our competitors who sell for less are local restaurants and seafood markets that have to keep an inventory of Stone Crab Claws. They rotate their stock and their oldest Stone Crab Claws are sold first. If the Stone Crab Claws do not sell, they are put in the freezer and sold as frozen fresh stone crabs. The Stone Crab Claws may be fine to eat, but they are not the freshest you can buy.
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Order Stone Crabs Online - What is a Stone Crab
Stone Crab (Menippe Mercenaria) - Menippe-Greek, meaning force or courage. Mercinaria-Latin, something of value
In order to assure the continued survival of the species: Only one stone crab claw may be removed so the stone crab can defend itself. Egg bearing females are not allowed to be declawed.The stone crabs are captured in baited traps. No spears or hooks are allowed. Four inches from the first joint to the tip is the minimum legal size, that's about two ounces. A colossal stone crab can weigh 25 ounces or more. The large crusher claw can exert extreme pressure. As much as 19000 lbs. per square inch. Although their massive claws serve as deterrents to most predators, fishermen have reported the stone crab falls prey to the octopus. Stone crab season in Florida runs from October 15th to May 15. Stone crabs exhibit carnivorous feeding behavior. Sometimes in traps they resort to cannibalism! The claws make up half the weight of the whole stone crab, they are removed by carefully grabbing from the rear and twisting. The crab is returned to water and the claw regenerates. It takes between 12 to 24 months to reach legal size again. In 1963 stone crabs cost 30 cents a dozen wholesale.
Order Stone Crabs Online - Florida stone crabs are found in southwestern Florida, down in the Keys and all along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Stone Crab fishing requires back-breaking labor. Crabbers head out in boats well before dawn. Their boats are loaded with a thousand pounds of fresh fish heads for bait, because stone crabs are very particular. They can fish anywhere from a mile offshore to ninety miles out, where the water is ninety feet deep. You go to where the crabs are walking; you move your lines to where the activity is.
Order Crabs Online - You try to time it so you get to the first trap, attached to a buoy, at first light. You pull the first trap, which is connected to the buoy by eighty or ninety feet of rope. You pull the buoy up to the boat and put it on a pulley that is connected to a motor; the pulley is doing the work. The trap is a square 16x16-inch box made of wood slats; as soon as the trap breaks the water, you pull it up and put it on the gunnel, or gunwale. The crabs get in by climbing up the side of the trap; they walk into a hole and drop down in. They can't swim-they only walk-so they can't get out. Each trap can hold ten or twelve stone crabs. Sometimes the trap is full; sometimes you get one or two, or none.
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Before cracking, place the stone crab claw on a cutting board or other hard surface. Then place a plastic bag over the claw (this will keep from splattering crab juice). Take a mallet or hammer and lightly crack the claw. Next, peel the shells from the claw and then separate the two knuckles from the main pincher. Please note that there is a hard center membrane inside the meat, so when biting into the meat be careful (treat the claw as if you were eating an artichoke, pulling the meat off the center). Now you are ready to enjoy fresh Florida Stone Crabs from Order Stone Crabs Online!
Order Stone Crabs Online - To enhance the sweet flavor, squeeze lemon or lime juice over the meat, dip into melted butter or use Order Stone Crbas Online mustard sauce. Just remember to crack only as many as you can eat at one time. Once cracked the stone crab claws will not hold well for a long period of time.
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