Crabber Reacts 🦀 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey 2023
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Capt CJ weighs in on The 2023 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey & the possible restrictions on catch being proposed.
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Thanks for the shout out 🦀 have a great crabbing season!
Appreciate you guys and all you do. My frustration is definitely not with you.
When I started crabbing the Chesapeake , there was maybe 4 commercial boats in this hole in the wall marina , now there’s at least 100 private boats crabbing every weekend. Plus stripper come back, the crabs take it hard, is a fact
Great news! Hopefully you have a very prosperous season! We bought half a bushel of extra large crabs yesterday for $223, but the crabs seemed rather light.
Happy Memorial Day!
Man that's stinks. They should definitely be heavy for that price.
Hey CJ, it's Keith Austin from the deer shop. How are you doing man?!? It's been awhile!! I'm living on the Eastern shore now....was just wondering how to get in touch with you for some crabs? I like what you're doing with your channel. I still come up that way over the bridge, was hoping i could swing through and get some soft crabs. We had some down here the other day, and they were nothing like the big ones back home! Let me know how i can get in touch with you.
Once upon a time, there were few scientists and many crabs. Nowadays, we have many scientists, and few crabs.
Sounds like tRump math here....
@@williamreilly5469Trump's on your mind 24 hours a day, 7-days a week, 💯% of the time!😂
@@williamreilly5469what a dope, you are
Hey mate! I find ur videos really interesting and enjoyable to watch! Keep it up! Hello from New Zealand!!
Thanks. What crabs do you guys have in New Zealand?
@@FVMissPaula we have a species of king crab that is in the deeper water, most common is paddle crab and brown crab.
@Paul3094 interesting. Crazy how many different crabs there are.
Just wondering the the average weight of a bussel er the average count of crabs? This is totally new to me, and I find it rather interesting way of measuring a volume of crab
A bushel is 40 lbs. Usually 6 to 10 doz in a bushel.
You buy beer by volume?
@@williamreilly5469 ahah preferred method is by the flat fer beer
Glad to hear the Good News!
Does the winter dredge survey give any indicator about wether crabs will be concentrated on the MD or VA side or is that a moot point this year because of the warm winter conditions? Thanks and take care.
Thanks for the good news ,! ❤
I lost them in first week in November like I always do up above the Cambridge bridge in the Choptank and couldn't get the weather to run down the river to chase them
That's about when it fell off for us.
Use to be for rec crab boat with two or more license crabbers two bushel limit. So how much longer till you think i'll see them up the susky river?
Yeah, It went to 1 last year. Probably a couple weeks till they show up the Bay. After this shed, there should be crabs.
@@FVMissPaula so in a couple of weeks i should be able to catch a few dozen on the susquehanna flats?
I would guess yes. Alot of crabs buried north this year. Let me know if my prediction was right.
@@FVMissPaula i'll give it a try within another week or two and see
I'm wondering if they are keeping the limits to see if the dredge survey later this year will show the same results. Maybe they will open it up next year, so they have a more accurate estimate year over year?
Time will tell.
Maryland Waterman a Dying breed
Sadly, like most fisheries, there are very few young people coming in.
Leave some for me, I crab recreationally out of the creek next to you.
Catch em up.
Might have to diversify in to the green ones,
Probably Blue Cats
@@FVMissPaula heard the was an up an comming fisheries, a good long line setup like we do here for halibut would probably work
@@BurchellAtTheWharf we just need market for them. Millions of pounds to catch.
@@FVMissPaula yea , same boat with the green crabs fer me my man,
Might need a food truck? But that can be costly
@FV Miss Paula: Is that what guys used to run trot lines for? Like back in the ‘70s?
Over regulations is everywhere, even here in Florida. People want to eat seafood but they don't want you to catch it. Who knows where they get there numbers. Good Luck
I heard they added more regulations down there, too.
@@FVMissPaula As someone who grew up working in Ag down in FL and now lives in VA doing some recreational crabbing, I could not agree more about the confusion in regulations. I'll never forget the "well-informed" citizen who protested planting of more groves in FL because we didn't need them due to having the "ability to just go buy some at Publix."
And about regulations, this reminds me of the recent "living shores" mandate. Come to my tidal creek and look at the ones having "living shores" that have resulted in an average 2 ft land erosion over vs the riprap protected shores. No native grasses grow where they dump all the street runoff directly into the bay right behind my house. Not to mention the deciduous trees of those living shores dumping nitrogen filled leaves into the water every Fall As someone who studied environmental sciences, it hurts to see how science follows the political whim these days. I think modern earth and wildlife ecologists should read the works of the father of wildlife ecology Aldo Leopold, “There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.” Those who crab, hunt or farm know more about the ecology and have interest in protecting it than others who merely dictate from the couch. Good luck in your efforts keeping up the good work.
Well put Shawn.
Have a great memorial weekend guys then get to work!!
It's Get To Work Season. No holidays till Thanksgiving.
Heavy tow bar and increase speed over the ground.
I am doing some digging…this may be tied to noaa or epa grant requirements.
Wouldn’t surprise me. The new EPA director is a clown show lauded for his fight against “environmental racism”. I don’t know what that is and I’m not gonna look it up, but this can’t go on much longer.
BINGO. Let me know what you find.
I really wish they wouldn’t dredge!
They don't in the Chesapeake. The survey is only little areas.
@@FVMissPaula not the surveyors but winter dredging for crabs.
@@rennyray11 they stopped commercial winter dredging in the Chesapeake years ago. You can only dredge in Delaware
@@FVMissPaula ahhh… thanks!! I’m waaaay behind 😂
When I worked on the”Big Dig” in Boston, I set a bunch of “fish structures” in Boston Harbor as part of one of the jobs. They looked like miniature concrete buildings before they add the walls. They weighed about 30,000 pounds a piece. Of coarse some fishermen came by and complained about not being able to pull their draggers through there anymore. When the divers went down and came back up, they said the whole bottom looked like a parking lot. Not a plant anywhere.
Regulations keeps everyone legitimate. Personal consumption fishing should only be banned from taking tabs with eggs.
I agree, but over regulation is destructive.
My dad always made me throw all ALL females back...
Just lower the prices ~~~
Tell that to the Crab houses. They make all the money.
My son lives in Snow Hill Maryland on the chinkateek Bay can you catch crabs in the chincoteague Bay we've never crabbed there before around the Snow Hill area
Yeah there are crabs down there.
@@FVMissPaula Thanks man love watching your channel it's pretty funny I love the rubber chicken pranks. Hope you all have great success this season so I can get my crabs cheaper
@@chriss8206 thanks
There’s actually some pretty good crabbing on the Chincoteague.