what type of crab is this?

Asian ;; came in with ballast of transit ships

beats the s%^&* out of green crabs for tautog bait ;;;:fishin:

Lady Crab

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looks like a lady crab. thanks

if ya get some big ones they taste pretty good

How big do they get? They sorta look like a blue crab. And I love me some blue crabs and cold ones.:drool:

Used to call them calico. too big to be an Asian mike.

How big do they get? They sorta look like a blue crab. And I love me some blue crabs and cold ones.:drool:

big 1's will be 3-4 inches across the shell

figure the same amount of meat as a 5 inch blue

less clawmeat, more bodymeat

yep thats a lady crab.....people eat them and they fish for them all summer of the pier at smugglers beach in yarmouth. The asians fill buckets of them. They dont have as much meat as a blue crab but taste alike from what im told

oh and bass like them even more

these things were eating size. looked alot like a blue. any regs for them?

Loads of them in CC Bay, as a kid we caught them on rod and reel, they are nasty, aggressive crabs and won't let go of a clam on a hook. Once kept 50+ of them, large, and cooked them. Yielded one sandwich with a lot of shell fragments. Never did that again.

They burrow quickly in the sand and we step on them quite a bit at low tide in front of the cottage in N. Truro. Not pleasant, they draw blood.

Saw tons of them this weekend.

Always called them Calico, but Lady Crab is technically correct...

Couple years back found 5 in the belly of a 42" bass, whole. Stacked up. My son, then 4, played with them on the beach for a couple of hours...