Crab limit 2014

I love me some crab cheetoes.  What kind of Filipino are you Glen?   

-Allen

Yummy.......crab cheetos 

If you think you're somehow saving the resource by not harvesting them, well, good for you, but you may not be right. 

I get where you are coming from and no one is trying to take away your right to keep female crab, but this part of your quote seems really far off the mark.  What kind of Alice in Wonderland world are we in where we have to take the crab to save the crab? 

If you think you're somehow saving the resource by not harvesting them, well, good for you, but you may not be right. 

I get where you are coming from and no one is trying to take away your right to keep female crab, but this part of your quote seems really far off the mark.  What kind of Alice in Wonderland world are we in where we have to take the crab to save the crab?

Objection.  Argumentative.  I'm not saying take crab to save crab, I'm saying not taking crab may not be saving crab.

But hey, there are many cases of animal/fish management in which culling back the number helps the population.  Although I know nothing about this w.r.t. crab.

-Allen

Take them before they take you!

This is a weird discussion to me too.
DFG rules say take either as a sport fisherman.

Without males you get no females.  So why just target males? I get the "females have thousands of eggs" argument...but it seems weak when you consider that there are slot limits. So those females do get to breed...

as for taste- i can't tell the diff...so saying they taste different doesn't fly for me.

as for taste- i can't tell the diff...so saying they taste different doesn't fly for me.

There is one time I can taste/tell the difference and that is post spawn.  The crab is still hardshell, but the meat just isn't that great sweet dungeness meat you know and love.  But you can usually tell a female is in this state because here flap is loose.

Note, I almost always let go female crab.  But every now and then I get a hankering for a hunk of crab eggs.

-Allen

Take them before they take you!

Why does the crab need a sword when he has those claws? 

Meh, these are crab that have been here forever in a sustainable fishery with population more or less in balance. We aren't talking about St. matthew's Island reindeer. its certainly not a hill Id chose to die on.

  If they have eggs,,, throw them back.   Better still, give them to me. I'll  be sure to take good care of them.

So, if I am on a kayak I can take 10 Dungess Crabs? And on a party boat (where I pay a Captain's service) it is 6?

Just out of curiosity, why aren't people regularly keeping red rock crab in addition to the dungess crabs?

Just out of curiosity, why aren't people regularly keeping red rock crab in addition to the dungess crabs?

I don't keep them because I don't like cleaning them, and after cleaning a limit of dungees, I just don't have the patience.  They do taste good though.

-Allen

This is a weird discussion to me too.
DFG rules say take either as a sport fisherman.

Without males you get no females.  So why just target males? I get the "females have thousands of eggs" argument...but it seems weak when you consider that there are slot limits. So those females do get to breed...

as for taste- i can't tell the diff...so saying they taste different doesn't fly for me.

I use to throw back the females, but kept one last year. It really reminds me of female blue crabs with all of the eggs. Too good to pass up (I'll limit it to 1 per trip)!

Take them before they take you!

Why does the crab need a sword when he has those claws? 

Clayman I don't know I have never had the Crabs.