Grand Isle stone crabs ( Pic added page 2 )

You can't keep them

There is no minimum recreational size limit for blue crabs. The limit is 12 dozen per person, daily and in possession.
Certain WMAs and state and federal refuges may have different possession limits. Reference WMA and refuge regulations or contact a local LDWF Enforcement Office for specifics .
There is no minimum recreational size limit for stone crabs or stone crab claws.


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Ranch. You can keep them. What I'm asking is if there is good meat in the body? I follow all hunting & fishing regs. Hell I throw 12.1234 inch specks back.

No, the body meat sucks, which is why you take one claw and throw it back. That way someone else can get another claw eventually.

That is the commercial regs, they are different from recreational.

they'll have a small one after one molt but it takes a few years for a full regrow. They can eat fine with one though. matty bay is full of them right now

you can also dig them up out of the mud if you know what to look for

Boiled the shite out of them. Body meat was great. Claw meat was great. Locals say we caught some dinosaurs. About like some good size Dungeness crabs.

dude there is no meat in a stone crab body
you sure you know what you boiled?

There's plenty of meat in stone crab bodies, and it's good too. You CAN keep them per the recreational regs: "Blue crabs or stone crabs can be taken
with any legal crab trap, crab drop
net, trawl, hoop net, trotline, handline,
bushline, dip net or cast net." LINK

Commercial crabbers can only keep 1 claw.