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Louisiana Crabs and a season
Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:48 pm
Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:48 pm
Do all think Louisiana should have a crab season?
Seems like the crabs are getting thinner and thinner from what people tell me. Guy in the business of selling them is telling me this. During a discussion with him and another person, They were saying Louisiana is over fishing the crabs. Prices are getting higher for smaller crabs. Crab traps are everywhere, more than ever. They said Louisiana should have put a season on them years ago.
What do yall think? I had no idea. Is this the case?
Seems like the crabs are getting thinner and thinner from what people tell me. Guy in the business of selling them is telling me this. During a discussion with him and another person, They were saying Louisiana is over fishing the crabs. Prices are getting higher for smaller crabs. Crab traps are everywhere, more than ever. They said Louisiana should have put a season on them years ago.
What do yall think? I had no idea. Is this the case?
This post was edited on 2/11/14 at 2:50 pm
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Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:49 pm to Crawdaddy
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Crab traps are everywhere,
I can't even catch a dozen off my pier anymore because the canal has traps set every 20 feet.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 2:55 pm to Motorboat
i enjoy eating crabs year round and have never had a problem catching them or with them being skinny. But passing down certain canals is like a minefield with crab traps on top of each other, and of course the crabbers will blame everyone and everything else.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:04 pm to Crawdaddy
I don't know but lump crabmeat from LA is getting pretty hard to find. Most seems like it is from Alabama these days.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:08 pm to Crawdaddy
quote:
Do all think Louisiana should have a crab season?
No
quote:
Seems like the crabs are getting thinner and thinner from what people tell me
That's pretty odd, go down bayou Lafourche and you can buy bushels for $35. They have blue points for sale on every corner.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:09 pm to Crawdaddy
Yeah i think they should have a season and I have a lifetime crab trap license. You also have tons of crabs that are killed in trawl nets every year. So couple that with the over fishing by crabbers and it is amazing that any get a chance to reproduce. Blue crabs have to migrate to the gulf to spawn in the higher salinity. That is why you only see big males for the most part in fresh water.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:10 pm to bayoudude
the number of crab traps out there now is mind boggling..
some crabbers blame CCA and increased redfish numbers..
some crabbers blame CCA and increased redfish numbers..
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:12 pm to choupiquesushi
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some crabbers blame CCA and increased redfish numbers..
I don't follow this. Please explain
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:12 pm to choupiquesushi
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some crabbers blame CCA and increased redfish numbers..
Sounds about right. You can't please everyone.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:17 pm to Motorboat
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quote:
some crabbers blame CCA and increased redfish numbers..
I don't follow this. Please explain
redfish EAT crabs...
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:22 pm to Crawdaddy
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Do all think Louisiana should have a crab season?
Never gonna happen.
quote:
Seems like the crabs are getting thinner and thinner from what people tell me.
What's YOUR experience with crabs?
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:25 pm to JPLIII
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What's YOUR experience with crabs?
Been a few years since I bought crabs. This was coming from a guy in the seafood market business in NOLA.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 3:26 pm to JPLIII
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What's YOUR experience with crabs?
They respond to this:
Posted on 2/11/14 at 4:52 pm to WildTchoupitoulas
WT, you're nasty.
Posted on 2/11/14 at 5:05 pm to Crawdaddy
quote:Yes
Do all think Louisiana should have a crab season?
Posted on 2/11/14 at 5:15 pm to Motorboat
just ride up and down the bayou with your boat trying to cut the lines with your prop... 
Posted on 2/11/14 at 5:33 pm to Crawdaddy
They are flying most to northeast markets!
Posted on 2/11/14 at 5:36 pm to Big Sway
Old command master chief once told me crabs could pole vault with match stick floating in the head.....
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