Giant crabs invasion in Port Phillip

[piketronic]

super amazing and delicious

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGpjG_ySVAr/

[laddercat]

Wow didnt know this happens in port phillip. Have any effect on the fishing ?

[Joely]

There's a bit more information here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-1...tralia/7519748

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

[yellow door 1]

Originally Posted by piketronic

super amazing and delicious

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGpjG_ySVAr/

Has anyone ever eaten this particular species of crab - we used to see them 20 years ago while chasing squid down at Queenscliff. The old locals said they were too much hassle for too little return so we never tried

[CHUNQX]

My colleague alerted me to the news article as well and apparently its a yearly occurrence. The question of edibility came up and from reading several views on them, it doesn't appear to be considered edible. If it was, there would be a massive hunt for them especially amongst the migrant communities and they would also appear in the fish markets in Footscray, Richmond, Springvale etc..

[Jackcridland]

Dive off rye pier there are 1000's of them . You can eat them http://www.tomsfeast.com/2014/07/how...a-spider-crab/

[yellow door 1]

I was going through an old album the other night and found a shot of one tangled up in a whiting rig.

I've eaten Smaller crustaceans - maybe we should have tried them.

I know in some fisheries over seas they encourage you to take the claws and release the crab. But some divers reckon this is a death sentence. So they only take one of the claws. The idea being that the crab can still defend itself and feed efficiently.