Some random facts about blue crabs
* Large male crabs are known as “jimmies.” Mature females are “sooks,” and immature females are “sallies.”
*A “soft-shell crab” isn’t a separate species of crab — it’s one that was caught just after molting. (shedding its shell)
*Watermen use chicken or eel meat as bait to catch crabs.
* Just three ounces of crab meat contain the recommended daily allowance of vitamin B12.
* You can see Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction (and the husband of Carmen Electra) advocating blue crab conservation in this video
* After mating once, a female blue crab may spawn (have babies) several times.
* The crabs bury themselves in the mud to wait out the winter.
* The scientific name of the Blue Crab, Callinectes sapidus, means “Beautiful swimmer that is savory”
* Beginning in 2008, Southern Maryland will host a minor league baseball team called the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs.
thanks to wikipedia and the Maryland Department of Natural Resourses for info
April 4th, 2007 at 10:52 am
They spawn several times after mating once? hmm, thanks, but I’d rather do that the other way around.