Green crabs would make good fertilizer. Crab meal is a thing for home gardens. You can also eliminate bag limits in areas they are not native, and use them for fish bait. Just a thought.
Depends on the area, but bag limits are not a thing for green crabs. In some areas such as Washington, you’re encouraged to report sightings but leave the crabs, because not all European green crabs are green, and native kelp crabs, shore crabs, and juveniles of larger crabs can look similar. However, you can keep and kill as many as you want, but the responsibility to identify them properly is on you, and if you’re wrong you will be fined.
I have seen them used for fish bate on charter boats in Niantic CT before. The fisherman literally cut them in half with scissors and put them on the hook. I caught several black fish with the crabs as bait this way. This was about 2 years ago.
Mhm That’s a great idea but it would have to be only males for bait to cut the chance of eggs getting out there All should be ground to pulp and dried and could probably be used for certain animal feeds as well
I live in a place where the green crabs are native and I must say, they are delicious! Boil them with some salt, hot sauce and bay leaf and you'll see. Also, the ones that are molting have a soft shell inside, they are used here as bait for fishing.
@TyrianHaze no one has a problem eating them they are just tiny. Would need 4 to 8 of them to only equal 1 lobster tail. The problem is it would become too expensive due to processing and customers don't want them because they are tiny
@@ForageGardener Well, if they can be eaten, then someone just needs to figure out how to make it cost effective to cook them up and feed people with them. Like I said: if it's something people will eat, the problem will solve itself.
@@ForageGardener The video said slaughter hundreds of thousands of them at a time. Assuming the meat is edible, I imagine that's more than enough to supply a restaurant or other local business.
Hi Steve . I have been consuming your contents for a good time now and i should say that I am pleased that you have brought back the less than 15minutes form format video
TWIMC: On the topic of invasive species. Never turn cute little goldfish loose in a lake or river. They're basically a type of carp that can grow enormous & voracious outside of a little bowl on one's table.
@@franklinwilliamsokeke7368 Either eat goldfish or flush them. Or both - sequentially. Wait a minute... Never mind. Everything's eatable. You're right. Let it go.
Green crabs and other small crab species are eaten in their local areas, the issue are whe these crabs are introduced to other location, they will eat everything.
"See now why we have been forced to live for a 1000 years. But soon we shall rule the land of Earth and Mankind will be gone!" Crab People - South Park
Went fishing on a party boat with Chinese people. Mate said wait for the yelling. While cleaning the first fish he throw the head into the ocean. Chinese use heads to make soup.
You never once throughout this whole video explain why people don’t eat them. Do they taste bad? Are they poisonous? You explain everything else, but why they’re not eaten.
I’ll give you the sum up 1.They are eaten (Only in a couple places) 2. People are more focused on killing then to stop them from killing off other sea life and eating them isn’t effective in doing this 3. They have a bad reputation of not being good quality compared to other types of crabs 4.they are smaller compared to other crabs people eat which makes them less appealing
You can easily eat them, but they only contain an ounce or less of meat. Basically, they are Scrawney! Better ground up by the dozens to raise chickens.
here in Denmark we make bio gas of craps and star fish, a fleet of ships hunt craps and star fish year round 96.000 tons were used to make bio gas , last year
@@fajaradi1223 few years back i did a revenge to am enemy, I hide a crab under his car somewhere, And later down the road he has no idea whats that smell
Why can't they build a processing system to turn them into crab sticks or something? I mean they're not high quality crabs but you could at least use them to make crab sticks and use them like imitation "krab" but you could market it as being made with actual crab.
If they taste bad to us, we could still use them to make cat food or dog food. Maybe pescatarians would eat them. What about all natural fertilizers made from green crabs.
crab sticks/imitation crab (surimi) is actually made of fish, not crab. it's extremely impractical to process crabs in a way a product like that would be manufactured. look how small they are also, the amount of meat per crab is abysmal with these you really have to find them when they're moulted so you can eat them soft but like the video said.. their shells harden particularly fast, so this is also probably very impractical
Perhaps it's not cost efficient in these 1st world country, if these crab ever set foot in Asia they would be eliminate pretty fast the way you said. You know how snakehead fish are dangerous invasive species? They're just food in their homeland, their place is in the market and kitchen lol.
what happened to the green crabs that were introduced to Australia South Africa and Japan as shown on the map? did they become invasive as well or died off shortly?
When I was a little boy, I used to catch them all the time in Rhode Island. They were everywhere especially underneath rocks. I know my uncle and a lot of fishermen used them for fishing bait though, particularly for tautog.
@@mr44magissue is it’s like selling dirt, it has value but only to certain people, it’s better to scare other markets into hating them so they focus on killing them
The analogy about the human-sized crab is kind of moot. We already know that the largest an organism can get without lungs is likely the size of coconut crabs. Not unless Earth regressed to a time when it had more oxygen.
These carbs are all over Victoria, Australia. They taste not bad but their hard shell, small size, and lack of meat make them undesirable for human consumption.
Green crabs are being eaten already. In fact they have been a part of Spanish and Italian cuisine for a good while but outside of this region green crabs have poor reputation and often viewed as lesser-quality products. And even though those are being introduced into cuisine in some USA regions as a substitute for Blue crabs, the idea of "sea cockroaches" remains strong and there aren't enough consumers to make harvesting and processing those crabs economically viable on many occasions. And even if we would be eating them we simply can't outcompete them. Invasive species are known for being able to reproduce quickly.
$5 for every green crab in Washington state sounds incorrect, but chatGPT did confirm this was true as of 2022. If this bounty is still intact, anyone want to start a green crab transport business from California to Washington State? Easy money.
As a Spaniard 🇪🇦 it offends me how so much food is being wasted, like why not eating them they are tasty 😅, just clean it the exact same you would a blue crab, exactly the same, can even also deep fry when molting, try it 😋 We call them "cambaros" btw
I'm pretty sure the electricity used on (Asian) carp, stuns them and they float to the surface. Otherwise other fish would be wiped out along with them
This may be off topic but why not modify them? Genetically modify few thousands and set it free? Make them bigger and weaken their shell so it could be a supple food source?
Hi, there is no $5 bounty on green crabs in Washington state at the present time. From Washington dept. of Fish and Wildlife "If you find a suspected European green crab or its shell in Washington, take photos and report it as soon as possible using the form on the European green crab identification and information page. Review WDFW's crab identification guide (PDF), and take pictures to confirm identification. At this time, we are not asking the public to kill suspected green crabs. This may sound counterintuitive but is intended to protect native crabs from cases of mistaken identity. As a Prohibited species, it is illegal to possess a live European green crab in Washington."
I didn't know about green crabs before this video but after watching this video & being informed I can add green crabs to the list of things I dislike on earth
Kinda dumb question... They are native to Europe and North Africa, but have been a threat to the Atlantic Coast since the 1800s and have recently been found in Alaska. Green crabs are damaging to marine habitats and ecosystems in several ways
They are great bait for certain types of fish like togue n they are also called slipplyer bass i probably spelled it wrong n they live in Northern East coast waters but other fish as well eat them
Why the hell can't delicious king crab breed like crazy all over?
True rabbit true
because we keep eating em faster then they can multiply
they actually do but catching them is super difficult cause they live in a super deep sea with super cold water
In a decade they will be considered a delicacy
They do actually.
Green crabs would make good fertilizer. Crab meal is a thing for home gardens. You can also eliminate bag limits in areas they are not native, and use them for fish bait. Just a thought.
"crab people crab people. Look like crab work like people. Crab people crab people"....
Depends on the area, but bag limits are not a thing for green crabs. In some areas such as Washington, you’re encouraged to report sightings but leave the crabs, because not all European green crabs are green, and native kelp crabs, shore crabs, and juveniles of larger crabs can look similar. However, you can keep and kill as many as you want, but the responsibility to identify them properly is on you, and if you’re wrong you will be fined.
I have seen them used for fish bate on charter boats in Niantic CT before. The fisherman literally cut them in half with scissors and put them on the hook. I caught several black fish with the crabs as bait this way. This was about 2 years ago.
That's what i was thinking, they do it with shrimp and lobster, so why not crabs
Mhm
That’s a great idea but it would have to be only males for bait to cut the chance of eggs getting out there
All should be ground to pulp and dried and could probably be used for certain animal feeds as well
I live in a place where the green crabs are native and I must say, they are delicious! Boil them with some salt, hot sauce and bay leaf and you'll see. Also, the ones that are molting have a soft shell inside, they are used here as bait for fishing.
Tell a corporation you can make crab patties fir the cheap and watch them disappear
Exactly, if you can figure out how to get people to eat them, the problem will take care of itself.
I kept waiting for this to be addressed... why aren't they eaten? It looks like they just get killed and thrown away?
@TyrianHaze no one has a problem eating them they are just tiny. Would need 4 to 8 of them to only equal 1 lobster tail.
The problem is it would become too expensive due to processing and customers don't want them because they are tiny
@@ForageGardener Well, if they can be eaten, then someone just needs to figure out how to make it cost effective to cook them up and feed people with them. Like I said: if it's something people will eat, the problem will solve itself.
@@ForageGardener The video said slaughter hundreds of thousands of them at a time. Assuming the meat is edible, I imagine that's more than enough to supply a restaurant or other local business.
Hi Steve .
I have been consuming your contents for a good time now and i should say that I am pleased that you have brought back the less than 15minutes form format video
TWIMC: On the topic of invasive species. Never turn cute little goldfish loose in a lake or river. They're basically a type of carp that can grow enormous & voracious outside of a little bowl on one's table.
Yep give them room and they'll grow
yep! we have some football sized goldfish in the lake by my house. its so crazy seeing them every time
I was able to catch ONE in ten years I fished for them And grass carp when I lived in Denver. I knew a few people who caught them on bugs
That's to tell you how evasive they can be and how determined the government is in getting rid of them. 😅😅
@@franklinwilliamsokeke7368
Either eat goldfish or flush them. Or both - sequentially.
Wait a minute... Never mind. Everything's eatable. You're right. Let it go.
They are edible and considered a delicacy in their home ranges such as Spain and Italy.
Green crabs and other small crab species are eaten in their local areas, the issue are whe these crabs are introduced to other location, they will eat everything.
"See now why we have been forced to live for a 1000 years. But soon we shall rule the land of Earth and Mankind will be gone!" Crab People - South Park
"if we can't make you metrosexuals, then we'll make you into crab people".
"Crab people, crab people. Look like crab, work like people". Crab people, crab people
To me this is screaming let's open up a SpongeBob krusty krab restaurant selling green krabby patties... 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Actually I think the meat would be a white meat still you use like a green colored chutney
The flavor is supposedly nasty.
Mrs. Crab is in the back press the patty out her Eggs! LMFAO 😂😂😂
@@Edwarddiaz21 Nah they taste fine
And government paying you at the same time 👍
They dont die, they multiply...😂
They BEBE’S CRABS!
Her comes the Crabstepper
Colors...colors..
Them: Don't die, multiply.
Us: Divide and conquer.
On ♿️ we never die we multiply
You need Chinese in your area. They are more voracious than the green crab.
Ong, have you seen Chinese at a food buffet?
Hmong,they are almost as invasive as the green crabs 😂
Went fishing on a party boat with Chinese people. Mate said wait for the yelling. While cleaning the first fish he throw the head into the ocean. Chinese use heads to make soup.
😂
Nah, just bring people from Spain 🇪🇦 we love green crabs here
FYI, green crabs are edible, and yes, they can taste delicious.
you know what to do.
You never once throughout this whole video explain why people don’t eat them. Do they taste bad? Are they poisonous? You explain everything else, but why they’re not eaten.
I’ll give you the sum up
1.They are eaten (Only in a couple places)
2. People are more focused on killing then to stop them from killing off other sea life and eating them isn’t effective in doing this
3. They have a bad reputation of not being good quality compared to other types of crabs
4.they are smaller compared to other crabs people eat which makes them less appealing
You can easily eat them, but they only contain an ounce or less of meat. Basically, they are Scrawney! Better ground up by the dozens to raise chickens.
I have eaten green crab all my life. They are used in many food dishes in Portugal.
Theres little edible parts and such a pain process to actually eat.
Truthfully, their shells are much harder than normal crabs so it makes it a pain for a little bit of meat.
here in Denmark we make bio gas of craps and star fish, a fleet of ships hunt craps and star fish year round 96.000 tons were used to make bio gas , last year
One of the wonderful side benefits of INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE. WE NEED MORE OF IT
For some reason i hear " Money! Money!" in my head.
Won't say what crab you had?You eatin illegal crabs, Steve?
He was talking about from his old ladys bush
Boo don't ruin the mystery @@DumbCarGuy
They could use these instead of whatever creatures they use to make artificial crab meat!!
Who are they?
PETA?
Green crab, the new super food to fight starvation world wide
Well, finally a worthy opponent? Time to defend our world dominance! 😂
$5 per crab is actually insane
Tryna keep these evasive species outta here
*invasive
I was assuming he meant 5 per pound..
Make damn millions
$5 per crab or $5 per pound. Sounds like I need to move to that area. I'd live on my boat bc I'm working 15 hours a day.
the most invasive species ever
i think humans are more invasive
Isn't that special.
@@chromabyteYTYeah…
@@chromabyteYT God shut up
@@chromabyteYTNo tree hagget
So.. are they inedible? Catching numbers like that they could be used for all sorts of things… ground up and added to feed.l. fertilizer…etc
they could grind these up and use them as compost in agriculture. It'd probably provide a lot of soil nutrients.
Dead crab are smelly 🤢🤢🤢🤢
@@johnsonlong8491
So does wet compost
@@fajaradi1223 few years back i did a revenge to am enemy,
I hide a crab under his car somewhere,
And later down the road he has no idea whats that smell
I live in Maine and can confirm that they are a huge problem for us
Yeah I've never seen crab in maine that wasn't a green crab
Can you eat them ?
@tacuachandocuh8233 The problem is that they out compete the species you actually want to eat while changing the habitat.
It ain't easy being green!- Kermit the frog
@@jml251 I do not like them Sam I am,I do not like green eggs and ham(crab) 🦀
ribbit!
green crab trying to takeover the world
they would never survive asia because we eat them hahaha
Why can't they build a processing system to turn them into crab sticks or something? I mean they're not high quality crabs but you could at least use them to make crab sticks and use them like imitation "krab" but you could market it as being made with actual crab.
If they taste bad to us, we could still use them to make cat food or dog food. Maybe pescatarians would eat them. What about all natural fertilizers made from green crabs.
crab sticks/imitation crab (surimi) is actually made of fish, not crab. it's extremely impractical to process crabs in a way a product like that would be manufactured. look how small they are also, the amount of meat per crab is abysmal with these you really have to find them when they're moulted so you can eat them soft but like the video said.. their shells harden particularly fast, so this is also probably very impractical
Perhaps it's not cost efficient in these 1st world country, if these crab ever set foot in Asia they would be eliminate pretty fast the way you said.
You know how snakehead fish are dangerous invasive species? They're just food in their homeland, their place is in the market and kitchen lol.
Because extracting crab meat isn't easy.
There's more exoskeleton than there is meat, and you can't just crush them because the shells are inedible.
what happened to the green crabs that were introduced to Australia South Africa and Japan as shown on the map? did they become invasive as well or died off shortly?
I would guess, like with many species, brought by shipping between continents.
You can sell it as food for pets or aquafarming or use it as fertiilizer.
“Invincible”….until they meet a pot of boiling water 😂😂
Humans don't do so well submerged in boiling water either😂
Can they not be turned into food for farmed salmon
If we harvest the adults the babies live longer apparently because the adults eat the babies if we let them
@@somethingsomething404 why not harvest the babies then
I would be eating crabs every day.
When I was a little boy, I used to catch them all the time in Rhode Island. They were everywhere especially underneath rocks. I know my uncle and a lot of fishermen used them for fishing bait though, particularly for tautog.
Try them, try them, and you may. Try them and you may, I say!
And now I know. Was fun to watch. Great video
couldn't otters help?
why leave work for otters that you can do?🥁
The ultimate lifeform ~crab~
"Why Does Everyone Kill Green Crabs?!"
I need to know -Frozone
They are invasive
Do they taste bad?
Because they do damage and do not belong here in Washington State. Probably brought by not so Bright Foreign Invaders with their Trash marine Life.
@@Provocateur3 I understand the Europeans eat them and they taste good.
Catch. Purge. Cook.
There's not much meat, but crab makes an amazing soup base.
It is sort of shocking no one has turned this into a massive stock/broth industry. The quickest way to get rid of something is to put value on it.
@@mr44magissue is it’s like selling dirt, it has value but only to certain people, it’s better to scare other markets into hating them so they focus on killing them
The analogy about the human-sized crab is kind of moot. We already know that the largest an organism can get without lungs is likely the size of coconut crabs. Not unless Earth regressed to a time when it had more oxygen.
Can't we do the mosquito thingy? Introduce crap ton of sterile crabs, thereby reducing the chances of successful mating of fertile ones
They mate more than once
These carbs are all over Victoria, Australia. They taste not bad but their hard shell, small size, and lack of meat make them undesirable for human consumption.
Hi Steve, how is your day going? I didn't know about green crabs! Thanks for the interesting information! Catch you again next time!
Everything will eventually evolve into crab
"A crab faces you, he is the enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy."
So why aren't we eating them? Turn them into food?
Green crabs are being eaten already. In fact they have been a part of Spanish and Italian cuisine for a good while but outside of this region green crabs have poor reputation and often viewed as lesser-quality products. And even though those are being introduced into cuisine in some USA regions as a substitute for Blue crabs, the idea of "sea cockroaches" remains strong and there aren't enough consumers to make harvesting and processing those crabs economically viable on many occasions. And even if we would be eating them we simply can't outcompete them. Invasive species are known for being able to reproduce quickly.
@@FascinatedBy french eat too
its the first thing he mentioned.
We shouldn’t create a market for them
@@somethingsomething404 why not animal feed?
Are they eaten by halibut? Octopi? Are they preferred?
$5 for every green crab in Washington state sounds incorrect, but chatGPT did confirm this was true as of 2022.
If this bounty is still intact, anyone want to start a green crab transport business from California to Washington State? Easy money.
As a Spaniard 🇪🇦 it offends me how so much food is being wasted, like why not eating them they are tasty 😅, just clean it the exact same you would a blue crab, exactly the same, can even also deep fry when molting, try it 😋
We call them "cambaros" btw
This is the first RUclips video I've watched where I've noticed the like button gets highlighted when the narrator asks to 'drop a like'.
To witness for yourself, go to about 1:07 and watch!
“How about some Naval Gunfire Bro,” 😂
This is the beginning of a waaagh of crabe for sure
I’m sure there are companies who do crushes them into powder then make them into those calcium pills many of us take daily.
College campuses protesting… green crab lives matter
That’s what you get for killing off their only natural predators, seals
nothing mentioned on how these critters tastes
Those green crab cost around us$8 per kg in my country. I think you can export it to asian countries. We can eat all kind of your crabs.
green crabs be like
WITH THIS TREASURE I SUMMON
What's the easiest way to catch crabs? Open a underwater Mustang Ranch. 😮
turns out you can eat them. so just tell everyone that they're tasty
I'm pretty sure the electricity used on (Asian) carp, stuns them and they float to the surface. Otherwise other fish would be wiped out along with them
Makes great lobster bait used them for years
They are literally the embodiment of "sea locusts"
Green crabs make good bait.
And free bait at that.
This may be off topic but why not modify them? Genetically modify few thousands and set it free? Make them bigger and weaken their shell so it could be a supple food source?
The inner geek is getting out. They are like the damn tyranids in 40K universe
after cooking they are good as others. in italy there are the blue crab
I never heard of these things before but my initial guess was that they were highly damaging invasive species. Seems that was right.
So talked of a few ways of controlling them, but what about genetic engineering like they are doing with mosquitos?
So that's the secret formula to the crabby pattie 😂
If that’s eatable, you can just bring us Filipinos there and we’ll do it for free 😅
I looked it up, they are edible
As commercial fisherman, green crabs are invasive from Europe
Honestly they are so cool we should just let them have everything
I smell an entrepreneurs dream right here...
Hi, there is no $5 bounty on green crabs in Washington state at the present time. From Washington dept. of Fish and Wildlife "If you find a suspected European green crab or its shell in Washington, take photos and report it as soon as possible using the form on the European green crab identification and information page. Review WDFW's crab identification guide (PDF), and take pictures to confirm identification. At this time, we are not asking the public to kill suspected green crabs. This may sound counterintuitive but is intended to protect native crabs from cases of mistaken identity. As a Prohibited species, it is illegal to possess a live European green crab in Washington."
So are they not edible?
I think Elden Ring has showed us all what happens when a crustacean scales up in size
The war against Mr Crabs has been declared!!!!
Wow, these crabs are so myopic, they're just like us humans, destroying as they go, without really intending to. Without much plans at all..
Are they dumping old bay on them?
Sound like humans and green crabs have the same master plan
What was Watop reaction to Kyle Hill video 'Suing RUclips’s Science Scammers' Watop wad mentioned at 01:08?
You see gentlemen, crabs are not a thing relegated to the past. Be careful you still don't want to get em'.
I hope they make protein supplements or dog biscuits
So basically they are like Humans to the environment they appear in.
I think those crabs are just like humans who just think about them selves
The George Carlin writes itself
In the end there will only be crabs, hogs, cockaroachs, and lionfish
I didn't know about green crabs before this video but after watching this video & being informed I can add green crabs to the list of things I dislike on earth
I never good when you have crabs 😂
Kinda dumb question...
They are native to Europe and North Africa, but have been a threat to the Atlantic Coast since the 1800s and have recently been found in Alaska. Green crabs are damaging to marine habitats and ecosystems in several ways
They are great bait for certain types of fish like togue n they are also called slipplyer bass i probably spelled it wrong n they live in Northern East coast waters but other fish as well eat them
I wonder if they could be used for animal feed?
1:03 I’m a bit confused by the subtle/obvious ….pun/phrase, “we are top” in all the videos - but entertaining content none the less 👍🏻
SO THATS WHY THEY RIVER DANCE, IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW!!!!!!!
well I can eat 50 crabs a day
Do you take IOU's?
Just kidding, added a 👍.
Unleash an army of underwater drones controlled by video game players with a piston on the end of an arm that dispatches the crabs instantly. Bruhh. 😅
There should be a market for them. Maybe the crab extract could be added to surimi for flavor.