Submitted by Delicious_Adeptness9 t3_yple3l in jerseycity
They can't possibly have culinary value
Comments
TacoCityJC t1_ivjjhn5 wrote
I see what you did there. Bravo.
LiveTheLifeIShould t1_ivjxfa2 wrote
Illegally sell them to restaurants.
GoHuskies1984 t1_ivjqnnv wrote
Where did you think La Conga gets seafood.
Blecher_onthe_Hudson t1_ivk16ir wrote
Depends on what crabs we're talking about. Are they big blue claws like you'd see in the restaurant, or are they small, only a couple inches across? Blue claws are eaten but you shouldn't eat them from the river. If they're the latter, they're invasive European green crabs, and a very popular bait for blackfish.
There are some people in New England trying to develop a culinary fishery for them, but it involves catching them, waiting for them to shed, and then eating them as soft shell crabs.
mrphreems1 t1_ivjv1qw wrote
They’re def getting eaten
Bellaboo1230 t1_ivjzuvl wrote
I looked this up once. In short, women still planning to have kids should not eat them and neither should kids. Only eat the leg and claw meat and limit the amount to something like 5 crabs per week.
Chris_NJ t1_ivjs2jz wrote
They are blue claw crabs (the same kind Chesapeake Bay is famous for) so they definitely have culinary value.
SyndicalistCPA t1_ivjxqle wrote
Can you actually eat them though? I would imagine they aren't exactly healthy to eat.
Chris_NJ t1_ivk7tvw wrote
Here is the advisory and recommendations on how to cook. Everyone evaluates risks differently. I have eaten fish/crabs very sporadically over the years from the Hudson/ NY Bay. I always found it strange while fishing when somebody came by overweight and chain smoking saying they never would eat a fish from the river. Certainly their odds of cancer (if they don't die of heart attack first) would be higher for someone who smokes/has unhealthy lifestyle.
Blecher_onthe_Hudson t1_ivlsks5 wrote
I eat the migratory fish from the river like fluke, tog and the rare barely keeper striper. They are only here a few months of the year unlike crabs or white perch, and there's really no difference between the fish population in the River/Bay and those in the Sound or Raritan Bay. The striper you catch off of Montauk might have been up the Hudson River just a few days earlier.
Delicious_Adeptness9 OP t1_ivk0kvo wrote
^this^
Not sure why anyone would want to risk eating anything from known polluted waters
https://wpdh.com/how-many-hudson-river-crabs-can-you-eat-before-being-poisoned/
SyndicalistCPA t1_ivk2z0r wrote
Thanks for this. 6 crabs per week and eat at your own risk. Just not worth it yet, unless you have no options.
FalseDemitri t1_ivkauc1 wrote
Surf City is the answer
ForeignMate t1_ivld63s wrote
I wish the Hudson was clean enough to be able to eat blue claws, they’re delicious.
readknitfreakout t1_ivmjlvl wrote
I can’t speak to now, but in the 80s my sister used to buy and eat them at a cart in Curries Woods. 😬
AsianAsshole t1_ivkw99c wrote
We're crab people, now.
BearWaver t1_ivleerx wrote
Walk like crab, talk like people
allogist1969 t1_ivlbja2 wrote
Rat bait, no additional poison needed.
jamesbarba11 t1_ivjinuj wrote
Give it to their partners.