Invasive green crabs aren't going anywhere, so why not eat them?

[@Paul-ou1rx]

Sell them to imitation crab meat companies. "Now Made with REAL CRABS!"

[@VenturiLife]

lol 🤣

[@hailemc8842]

👏 Brilliant idea.

[@missionpupa]

the reason they are making fake crabs is because its easier to produce

[@JackieOwl94]

No, don’t do that. Imitation crab is the only reason my husband can eat “crab” sushi. He’s allergic to real shellfish.

[@RossAllaire-wx4og]

Not easier. Cheaper. @@missionpupa

[@michaelcourtney2754]

This is just about the most Louisiana thing ever. My first thought when I heard about Asian tiger shrimp in our waters was, "Dey good in gumbo?"

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

Everything is good in gumbo

[@davidy22]

​​@@bobbiusshadow6985 I do enjoy me some bananas and choolate in my gumbo

[@boardcertifiable]

They make awesome tempura and are tasty grilled. And yes, they are great in gumbo.

[@KoruGo]

​@@davidy22 A little bit of dark chocolate gives incredible flavor to gumbo

[@harryv6752]

Fa sho! 😄

[@Grahf0]

Former teacher recruiting former students for entrepreneurial employment. Breaking Crab.

[@FuzDoesStuff]

Cracking Crab

[@raydgreenwald7788]

Jessie! We need to cook!

[@tjwest2605]

​@@raydgreenwald7788 we're going to synthesise the butter ourselves

[@gallopingalumphus5390]

I associated with a former teacher once . . . I got the crabs!

[@kayagorzan]

11 billion crabs went missing

[@delta9LouDog]

This man deserves more recognition as an incredible teacher and educator. He has not only found and applied a practical, even profitable answer to an environmental issue of their local community but has also enlisted the next generation to be involved in that solution.

[@Klm49]

Agree 100%

[@4twentyevents]

Crabs and lobsters used to be only slave, indentured servants, and prison food. Then it was remarked.

[@liindawgg]

Green crabs can be salted/cure and incorporate in thai papaya salads. You can also make broth from them.

[@MikeyLee559]

This isn't an issue at all for South East Asians lol this be food for the villagers easy snack. I guess Americans needs to stop being picky. If it tastes like regular crab , find a way to fry it up or make it a cheap food source and people will buy it.

[@RoseNZieg]

if someone is smart enough to make fermented crab products and sell to the us east coast it would save alot of money on shipping.

[@smash44556677]

Was just about to say my girl makes papaya salad with similar looking crabs, didnt eat it tho it just added flavor

[@MaoRatto]

@@MikeyLee559 SMART PEOPLE ARE REQUIRED. Guess what America lacks?

[@randyschwaggins]

​@@MaoRattoguns

[@BjjDrillers]

Crab burgers are legitimately the best burgers I have ever eaten. Eating crab burger can solve an ecological problem.

[@Mobin92]

But they literally just deepfried the whole fricking crab without even removing the shell and legs... How can that possibly taste good?

[@delphidelion]

@@Mobin92 There are a lot of soft shelled crabs that are prepared fully intact. Consider it extra crispy.

[@ringwormsherm]

seafood lovers are weird man....its soft but its still a shell. i wouldnt eat anything from the ocean@@Mobin92

[@TexasRedOutlaw]

soft shelled crabs, the shell is edible@@Mobin92

[@headmmeat]

@@Mobin92 They're harvested during malting season and therefore don't have a hard shell. Everything is edible and tastes great. Also they're obviously very soft when you actually pay attention to when he deepfries them.

[@merk9569]

I would think they could be converted into fish food for farm raised fish or incorporated into animal food, especially for cats. My dogs love cat treats! Personally, if they taste like soft shell blue crabs, I would definitely try them. I don’t like steamed blue crabs but soft shells are a delicacy.

[@MaineGreenCrabs]

They can be and are, but are high in ash so only fish that are ash tolerant can eat them. Poultry on the other hand love them.

[@HKim0072]

O_O You don't like steamed blue crabs? That's heresy.

[@tomevers6670]

@@HKim0072too much work

[@tristanbulluss9386]

I have a picture of a ghost on a tv.

[@HKim0072]

@@tomevers6670 Unless you are getting really small crabs, it's really easy. I will agree with messy, but you can get most of the crab meat out in 1-2 minutes with a paring knife. Although, I did work at a crab restaurant (that had all you can eat) for 2 summers when I was 17 and 18 years old.

[@kalmage136]

Soft shell crabs to be fried, older or bigger ones can be boiled for flavor & broth & sauces. The leftover can be dried & pulverized into a fine powder for even more flavor, seasoning & many other uses.

[@metalmaidenhell138]

Natural Fertilizer

[@BeardedDragonMan1997]

@@metalmaidenhell138technically everything can be considered a natural fertilizer

[@metalmaidenhell138]

@@BeardedDragonMan1997Yeo no waste. The old ways of planting fish still works

[@ytcontent11]

in the slider, do people eat the whole crab?? With the shell???

[@Ahreigh]

@@ytcontent11 I’m assuming it’s a soft shell crab, you eat the whole crab minus the head.

[@CBD7069..]

Sell to South East Asian markets. These can be made into a variety of sauces, fermented sauces/paste. Wish we can get a hand of these on the west coast.

[@TSerey]

I’ll be making spicy papaya salads 😂

[@divinelycursed768]

​@@TSereyThais would love to have these for cheap.

[@517sbf]

Asians eat ANYTHING

[@mattparke4370]

They literally become Ba Kia, one of the most addictive preservatives I ever tried . My grandma was the Vietnamese Elsa of her time and she constantly craves them

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

Problem is, why would people in Southeast Asia buy imported crab and prawn from the US, especially if they’re just gonna be made into sauce or paste, when there’s already plenty of supply from local sources there?

[@merk9569]

Since green crabs are small and don’t have much meat on them, it is difficult to pick out the meat from them. When they molt, the entire crab is then edible and taste like blue crabs. Marine scientists need to find a way to get the green crabs to molt so that they can be made to molt once caught. They can then be easily eaten. Blue crabs are harder to find so it would be a good source of seafood.

[@randys6220]

Kind of sick since that would include their digestive system. Most are completely emptied out during the molting season, but still a chance of leftover crap in some that you would be consuming. Safer to stick with crab legs or crab claws, though much more expensive.

[@MissBabyNe]

​@@randys6220Have you never heard of softshell crab? They clean the guts out even if you eat the whole thing.

[@randys6220]

@@MissBabyNe No, they cannot clean out the guts unless they pull them apart. The whole shell crabs being served as sliders in the video are completely intact when they are fried and served. The chef is trusting they are completely emptied out since during molting season the crabs tend to stop eating / fast because the process is somewhat uncomfortable & painful for them.

[@MissBabyNe]

@@randys6220 you obviously never cooked in your life, go watch a recipe video on how they prepare softshell crab, nobody is trusting anything, they lift the shell half way and cut out all the guts and gills. That's the cleaning process I'm talking about. They removed the entire tract. The shell was not totally pulled off so it stays intact in the frying process making it look like a whole crab.

[@MissBabyNe]

@@randys6220 they lift the shell half way and cut out all the guts and gills... The shell stays intact when battered and fried, so it looks whole. Cleaning is not like rinsing and brushing, they literally removed them in the prep process, you can watch a recipe video on it.

[@xxcommentator]

Those crab sliders look so damn fine that it's making me hungry

[@siggybuttbrain7026]

till you take a long look at it, bro its a full crab shell and all deep fired bro 💀

[@Garuwashii]

@@siggybuttbrain7026 its a soft shell crab my dude you're supposed to eat it that way

[@siggybuttbrain7026]

@@Garuwashii yeah i know, but still, yeah like lemme chew on a shell real quick, yeah nah dont care, a man in china would tell you eggs are meant to be soaked in little boy piss before you eat them, doesn't mean you should, still a nasty freak if you eat that shit.

[@headmmeat]

@@siggybuttbrain7026 I'm genuinely surprised how many people don't know about soft shell crabs. I mean they clearly state in the video that it's malting season

[@randys6220]

They are disgusting looking.

[@28ebdh3udnav]

This is the same thing that's happening here in Texas but with wild hogs. In some counties, hunting is free game for invasion hogs. Get as many as you can and just eat them. Plus, in some southern states, there's an invasion fish that isn't desirable to eat but still great when made the southern way or simply fried fish. Some states have no limits on how many invasive fish you catch as long as they're the invasive ones.

[@kylem1112]

At least those hogs have plenty of meat unlike these little things lol.

[@CountryMouseCityCrimes]

Hawgs. They're called hawgs

[@djinconroe]

Yeah but here in Texas we see anything that moves here from just about anywhere and call it invasive ;) Californians and Yankees are not good eats! On the other hand look at those giant Crawfish that we're seeing now. "Australian Red Claws". Delicious!

[@johndemore6402]

Wild hogs are parasite ridden not fit for eating

[@CountryMouseCityCrimes]

@@djinconroe Which states have the most child abuse victims? "In 2021, about 52,345 unique victims of child abuse were reported in Texas, the most out of any state." That's right.... just a quick reminder that you folks are exactly what you accuse everyone else of being. It wouldn't surprise me if Texas also did have a ton of folks quite interested in consuming their fellow human beings. Because you folks in Texas are sick. Really, really sick.

[@baldieman64]

Weird how we never get invasive species that are properly tasty. The East Coast of the US doesn't get brown crabs (Cancer pagurus) and we in Europe don't get Dungeness crabs or Spot prawns. For any anglers reading this, green crabs make great bait, and you will find dozens of tutorials from the UK on the use of "Peeler crabs".

[@MikeySkywalker]

A lot of invasive species are delicious. Lionfish come to mind. Unless I misunderstood what you meant by "we."

[@goatymcgoatface3575]

Lion fish is tasty but it takes a ton of prep work. Green crab taste good but they have less meat than pretty much any other type of crab

[@la7dfa]

In the north of Norway we get the Russian red king crab. They are really tasty, but also tends to eat everything in their path.

[@baldieman64]

@@la7dfa Yes. There was a bit of a panic a couple of years back when someone caught a couple of "king crab" off the north-east coast of England. Just as a few commercial crabbers were getting overexcited, a biologist stepped in and pointed out that they were in fact native northern stone crabs - Lithodes maja.

[@theprecipiceofreason]

I agree that it seems most of the biggest problems are disgusting in taste (the pacu fish in florida comes to mind) but they are also not getting their usual diets so they may be different in their natural areas. It seems like a smart thing to evolve though - a bad taste to the world's most successful predators, humans.

[@MaineGreenCrabs]

While soft shells are the holy grail, and priced so, the medium size hard shells are excellent for deep frying and an excellent umami seafood flavor. The large ones (4” carapace) are good for picking if you understand how. This is a great informational piece from News Center, green crabs are a real problem, but also offer some potential.

[@Devilishlybenevolent]

I love soft shell crabs... But I'm not gonna bother trying to cook/eat these little crabs otherwise, too much work for barely any meat lmao

[@MikeySkywalker]

How do you eat the shells?

[@kevinsong712]

Excellent for deep frying?? People deep fries their crabs??? 😂😂

[@MikeySkywalker]

@@kevinsong712 this is what I am wondering. How do you deep dry a crab with a shell on it?

[@nanonano2595]

@@MikeySkywalker when crabs are small enough, you can deep fry them even if their shells arent soft from a recent moult. Because the base thickness of the shell just isn't enough to retain the hardness after cooking. The heat does...stuff to the shell to make it just kinda crunchy and edible. Idk about the specifics, but you can buy real crab snacks from japan or some places that import it. Its just whole baby crabs deep fried and sprinked with some spices. alternatively...uh, you could just deep fry larger crabs, shell and all, just pick out the meat after deep frying. Usually comes with a sauce to balance out all the oiliness.

[@LovingShadow-e3k]

See this is what you should do with invasive species. In the south kudzu is taking over. But on Japan it's considered a cooking staple. Green crab,kudzu,carp, heck even Nutria. With all this the rule of thumb should be. If you can eat them in the country that they came from you can eat it here. Start making with the recipes people. This is also good for food instability. If you have a overabundance of a invasive species. Just grab the BBQ sauce.

[@bananascoaster1243]

I'll send the goats for the kudzu

[@SewardWriter]

I'd love to try kudzu salad or tempura. Fun fact: kudzu honey ranges from purple to blue.

[@afcgeo882]

The lion fish is invasive in the Caribbean and they’re spear fishing it for restaurants.

[@SewardWriter]

@@Lilboozibert Feed them to pet lizards and tarantulas? And my cat. She eats stinkbugs like they're delicacies.

[@SoberOKMoments]

Have you priced animal feed lately? Kudzu makes good animal fodder, as do water hyacinths - and both are free.

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

I’m from Massachusetts. The green crab has been here from 1817 or earlier. Our biggest issue is a new invasive species, the Asian shore crab. Many people don’t know periwinkles in our region are also invasive…

[@modojocorlee2241]

Sell periwinkles to Asian grocery stores. They're popular.

[@saudade2100]

My family used to gather and cook those periwinkles. Never realized they were invasive though. Gathered up buckets of the periwinkles, boiled them with some garlc and spices. Mom just gave me a bowl of them, with a pin to pick them out of the shells. Thinking about it, a very early memory, I ate thema few times at a neighbor's house, so it must have been a multi-family effort.

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

Can you eat the Asian shore crabs? Or use them as animal feed and fertilizer?

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

@@modojocorlee2241 most people here don’t know they’re invasive, as they were already here when their great grand parents were here….

[@paddyodriscoll8648]

@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive of course, but they destroy local fauna and flora here even if harvested. Many of the marine creatures that were ubiquitous when I was a kid are gone now and I doubt are ever coming back,,,,

[@gregoryd2050]

Josh Peck's come a long way from Nickelodeon 😂

[@tkjho]

The bigger ones can be eaten like blue crabs, the smaller ones (

[@2011Rodders]

They make good stock, especially an Asian style stock with green onion and ginger in. Makes a really nice ramen base

[@george40nelson4]

If the shells could be softened and or thinned out safely by some chemical process they would be a soft shelled delicacy ?

[@tkjho]

@@george40nelson4 soft shell blue crabs are "farmed" by keeping crabs that are about to molt in a tank. kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJmrfqSDoraVjsU&ab_channel=ZAKCATCHEm%27

[@RoseNZieg]

there are large Asian communities in the us. there is a demand for crab products.

[@tkjho]

@@RoseNZieg Not for this small size crab, too much effort to get a tiny bit of meat out.

[@endoroboto]

Weird Al Yankovic, you were a wise man when you said, "Just eat it."

[@dentalnovember]

“Your body’s wide well mine is too, you better watch yourself, or I’ll sit on you. The word is out better treat me right, ‘cause I’m the king of cellulite. Ham on, ham on whole wheat, or rye, that’s right.”

[@alanhelton]

It’s livin in the fridge, I can’t tell what that is at all!

[@SewardWriter]

How come you're always such a fussy young man? Don't want no Captain Crunch, don't want no Raisin Bran! Well, don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan? So eat it, just eat it!

[@vinny-zm5vo]

OG cringe right there. yikes.

[@SewardWriter]

@@vinny-zm5vo Dude, you're the only source of cringe in this thread.

[@DiNY-u9k]

I lived in Maryland many years ago. Crab boils are huge there. They have soft shell crabs. Theirs are blue crabs. You all could adopt this tradition. And with a little marketing, you could even bring tourists to Maine to eat them. Don't forget the bay seasoning or maybe create an Atlantic seasoning just for Maine crabs. 😄

[@leahlockettharris4579]

The hard ones could be used for seafood bullion, stock and broths or dehydrated for pet treats.

[@ASmithee67]

Since green crabs originated in Europe, there has to be dozens of human recipes. Rather than sell them for pet food (which will typically be low cost), they should do a deal with Red Lobster or some other big chain. It's a win win... large corporation helps limit an invasive species at maximum profit for the chain/farmers.

[@mattrobson3603]

To be perfectly snarky, all recipes are human recipes.

[@MGmirkin]

@@mattrobson3603 To be even snarkier: Kang/Kodos: "How to Cook Human" "How to Cook For Humans" "How to Cook Forty Humans" "How to Cook for Forty Humans" [...]

[@daphnelu7]

Could probably use them as fertilizer too

[@tinknal6449]

Trouble with that is it wouldn't be financially viable to use them for fertilizer.

[@maknavickas]

@@tinknal6449 the government could make it free by paying the trappers a flat fee per lb and then giving them to farmers.

[@tinknal6449]

@@maknavickas I don't think you know what "free" means....

[@Dakarn]

@@tinknal6449 Honestly, it's a better use of our tax dollars than teaching Trans ideology in Pakistan.

[@tinknal6449]

@@Dakarn LOL, there would also be far more productive invasive species to turn into fertilizer. Takes a crew of 5 a season to get a truckload of fertilizer worth a few hundred bucks. That same crew could come to the midwest and harvest that many invasive carp in a weekend.

[@sharkscrapper]

So glad to see folks at least trying. I'd definitely try them, love soft shell crabs.

[@Maybehomebody]

I am willing to eat them. Fried soft sell is going to be really good 👍

[@merk9569]

@@chopchop3464. I don’t care for blue crabs except soft shell, fried the way these are shown. They are a delicacy on the East Coast, US, where restaurants charge premium prices. If you haven’t tried them, you may find them to be delicious. They don’t taste like blue crap, steamed, and picked from the shell.

[@TotallyAGoblin]

They could have a Crab festival on the water, have people fish up a ton of the crabs and who ever comes in with the heaviest weight wins a entry pot prize. And after the crabbing they could have a recipe and cooking contest on the shore where people compete to make the tastiest dishes with the caught crabs.

[@jctai100]

Mcdonalds should just make the Filet-o-fish out of them. They're seasoned so much that you could really put anything in there. Onshore all the jobs of fishing and processing back to USA.

[@tj-we1pz]

lol i was saying why not just make it into those sticks of imitation crab meat (usually made from pollock I believe) I make sushi with that all the time

[@kalandobrown8091]

I remember falling in love with America for stories like this. Lovely this!

[@billybob3563]

The real issue here is the human element to all these invasive species. Most Americans are pretty nose in the air type people that refuse to eat any thing new. Like it amazes me that people refuse to eat carp yet carp when properly cleaned and purged taste great and dosn't have that "mud" flavor (only bad thing is the bones), These green crabs? Easily be used to make crab cakes or canned crab meat so you can mass harvest the crabs. While also providing jobs and generating tax revenue. Almost every invasive species is a major food source in other countries without being too crazy like insects or hamster meat. If we monetized these species or actually decided to want to eat them they will easily go near extinct like what happened to them in their home countries.

[@rathapolr.3666]

Reminds me of what happened to bombay locusts in Thailand where i am from, initially the Thai goverment proposed the widespread use of pesticides, but the Thai locals appealed to the goverment to repress the act as they now had the new occupation and cultures from selling them. Felt like disgust was working against us initially, might sounds narrow but it seems that this ended up became a delicacy and it is said that it does smell better than a meatball to locals and for some regional farmland became a hidden farmland paradise not affected by consequences of massive uses of pesticides .... negibouring countries suffered the heavy uses of pesticides in farmland unfortunately.

[@mariagrenat6147]

Send some of those suckers this way. There are many people in Pa. who would love to have them on their dinner table. We don’t get a lot of fresh shellfish where I live. You have to travel it seems for hours.

[@SewardWriter]

Same for Oklahoma. Anything fresh that's not catfish or crappie is like gold!

[@AM-tc9ct]

Those sliders look yum. Plus I’m sure our dogs, cats and chickens would go to town on these guys.

[@BeneathandBetween]

Pet food price point is much lower than that for human food.

[@jarmyvicious]

Oh....What terrible luck....Not! Take a couple halved Deep Fried Softshell Crab, Fragrant Jasmine Rice, Asparagus, Scallions, dressed with a Spicy Mayo Citrus Sriracha, a Cool Wasabi Creme, and a Sweet Soy Reduction, and top it off with Flying Fish Roe once all is twisted up like a Fatty; inside a Seaweed Cone.... All-Day/Every-Day Temaki Handrolls!

[@Diamond_Hanz]

Best way to to get rid of them is to sell the cooked food products a little bit over cost and upsell on drinks and other dishes....

[@Tammissa]

The Asian communities will probably love this product because of their love for seafood.

[@ajasss]

Wonderful report. I'm showing this to my students in Taiwan. Keep up the good science work!

[@revolvermaster4939]

Hell yes! I never met a crab that wasn’t tasty.

[@williampalchak7574]

Knew a very friendly girl in college that said otherwise.

[@legaleagles3654]

@@williampalchak7574 😅😅😅😅

[@nattypezman4894]

Yea it depends where them crabs are crawling😂😂😂

[@baldieman64]

Green crabs are safe, but don't get too adventurous. There are over 500 species of crab in the Xanthid family, and a good many of them are lethally toxic to humans, with no antidote.

[@Cokknine333]

@@williampalchak7574?

[@khazixthevoidreaver9499]

In places where green crabs are endemic, like Italy where i'm from they are a delicacy and are quite expensive, by all means do eat them!

[@nicholasmorgan7609]

Here's hoping this kind of stuff can keep the population manageable

[@koraegi]

Deep fried soft shell crab burgers sound amazing

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

No it doesn't

[@yarou3124]

​@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kkNah its really good unless you are not into shellfish

[@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kk]

@@yarou3124 in not

[@randys6220]

Green crabs look like shit.

[@terran236]

​@@WildlifeWarrior-cr1kkyes yes it does

[@johnroach13]

I LOVE MR MASI, he was an awesome teacher!

[@TexasB512]

The chef 🧑‍🍳 is selling crabby patties😂

[@mirandamaher9465]

Those should be frozen and sold as sheepshead and tuatog bait. Fishermen will pay 6-8 bucks a dozen for cutters and buy the little ones by the lb. Best bait for drum, sheep, tog and many other species.

[@AlexP1-y4g]

Makes sense over here in the UK, they use them as bait. Peelers are really sought after

[@AlexaDollxo]

They already do that as explained on the video ......

[@CUSTERM16A2]

Since there is such large numbers of them turn them into bait, food, and fertilizer.

[@mirandamaher9465]

@@AlexaDollxo Im saying if they are frozen they can be marketed to more areas. i fish in Florida and cant buy them. I would if available. Digging crabs is a lot of work otherwise.

[@Melissa0774]

Where do they come from originally? If people don't want to eat them, why not use them for fertilizer or animal feed?

[@randys6220]

From Europe. Over there the blue crab is considered an invasive species.

[@kd8199]

The green crab sliders look delicious!

[@Stuff_And_Things]

Yeah its crazy what people will turn their noses up at. Rabbits, Lemmings, green crabs...wild boar...carp... So much abundant food and people are starving. People are starving and they want to eradicate an abundant food source.

[@calico9046]

Ohioan here. I’d eat green crabs in a dish, no hesitation. Some of those looked really good too. It’s just a shame that Maine isn’t as close to me as PA is

[@kazegarasu4704]

It's not a crab problem ... It's a culinary problem ...

[@JLNatale]

Honestly a cheap good eating crab sounds good to me. Harvest these and leave the blues and everything else.

[@YoBen100]

Modern day proble, modern day hunger solution.

[@thebes118]

Better than bugs lol.

[@jorynickila7760]

I would eat that! Those green crab sliders looked amazing!🤤

[@Doncroft1]

They really do!

[@tsm688]

literally a bug on a bun. "looks amazing!"

[@jorynickila7760]

@tsm688 The funny thing is, you really have no idea how many bugs you eat on a daily basis in every single thing that you eat. The FDA has allotted a certain level of insect parts and insect feces, rodent hair, and rodent feces feathers and bird excrement and biologic pathogens in every food item in your pantry, your fridge, or your kitchen every grocery store, fast food restaurant every sit down restaurant... Every single thing you eat has some monochrum of insect, rodent, or avian byproducts in it... So I wouldn't pass up on a good thing purely on your hang-ups on what's edible what tastes good and what is good for you nutrition, wise.....

[@lostinthedesert6149]

Do you get a belly ache if you eat too many green crabs, like you do with green apples? 🤔🤔

[@Leto_0]

Not if you peel them first

[@brandonloaiza8595]

Chef Josh Peck... i was like what!? Lmao ❤😂

[@alexproctor524]

Lmao I immediately thought of drake and Josh

[@andrehinds4804]

Crabby patties Stay green. Eat green

[@ctgeorgia]

Soft shell green crab sliders!!! I'm totally in on that! Looks fantastic.

[@megamecha100]

"Off to what 34? Oh yeah that's what I thought you said..."

[@flowerchild9672]

Thank you. This is what a lot of states should try to do with invasive species all over the country. If not eating them then think of something else to destroy them. Super smart idea. You would think other states down south would get with the program (idea), because at some point…in my opinion, the invasive species will start to migrate further mid-east to upper east if they can. Some states should’ve thought of this idea before it got worse, but seems like they’re thinking of other things that make no sense.

[@skehleben7699]

I wonder what the pythons who have taken over the everglades taste like. Ill take a hard pass on meat of any kind but if that's your thing go for it!

[@flowerchild9672]

​@@skehleben7699 funny how I never said I wanted to eat Python meat, but I’m sure some people would eat it. It amazes me how people read (and don’t read) into something that wasn’t mentioned. Was just agreeing to the idea of trying somehow to get rid of at least most of the invasive species that are in the states.

[@yongyea4147]

I'm not sure this is the best way to solve the immigration problem 🤔

[@nanonano2595]

cause a lot of americans are very picky about their food. If china had a similar problem, the invasives would be eaten up so fast they'd have to start farming them to meet the new demand.

[@RvBnerd618]

In Florida, people are trying to fish out the invasive Lion Fish as it was discovered they're delicious. I've never eaten one myself but if there's a restaurant that serves them, I'd be glad to try it at least once. Who knows, it might be my favorite seafood!

[@stephensmith4025]

Looks like they need to turn loose some mantis shrimp

[@drea4195]

Green Crab sliders looking awesome :)

[@outinspace3083]

I’d try drunken crab, crab cakes, soft shell deep fried, and more!

[@jibberjabber8870]

In the Philippines, we don't wait for the crabs to molt. What we do is eat them a little smaller. First, we remove the biggest shell piece(that covers the body) and clean out the innards of the crab, wash, then dip in breadings or flour before deep frying. These can be eaten as finger foods.

[@nostalgia46]

I had invasive green crabs once, had to go to the doctor for that one. 😂

[@DrCureAging]

Unfortuately you chose to go to the ocean before the doctor and now you infected the whole world.

[@SoberOKMoments]

😆

[@YIPPY-xf8pi]

I kinda want to, but don't know if its legal. Breeding the green crab to be bigger so they are more sought after and have a harder time keeping their population big due to looking for bigger food items

[@vicktorpatriot1430]

Bet they would be great protein in Cat food

[@chaikagaz]

I know in america they dont do soup with seafood like asia does. Maybe start with green crab gumbo?

[@backagain5216]

Excellent idea, makes sense and positive thinking! All the best everyone!

[@drbichat5229]

Read somewhere that Maryland blue crabs somehow made it to the coasts of Italy and are considered an invasive species over there. The answer is “ eat them”

[@blank1778]

Send them to Asia! They love seafood

[@koraegi]

No just send them to my house

[@ringfitnopinkies]

Sell them to the Asian stores here, in the US.

[@brt5273]

Except for that invasive jellyfish they are dealing with over there. They love the fish eyeballs, the creepy 1000 year egg, fermented fish gut juice and every weird, unappetizing thing imaginable but NOT the damn jellyfish that's taking over and desperately needs thinning out.

[@brucelee5576]

@@brt5273 Bruh we eat jelly fish too.

[@FoNgThOnG]

@@brt5273 Ok colonizer lol

[@kellyharper367]

Couldn't they be macerated and made into fertilizer or fish food?

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

A live green crab might be the best fishing bait ever. They arent to large or have big pinchers. Down South we either you fiddler crabs, small blue crabs or break a blue crab in too two baits.👍👍Great film.

[@dentalnovember]

Bait is how they became an invasive species. They are great for tautog.

[@victoryfirst2878]

WHERE DID THE GREEN CRABS COME FROM ??

[@victoryfirst2878]

@@elizabethchase6528 You are correct Elizabeth.

[@azzir325]

Prefer my food without the guts.

[@NeverDauntedRadioNetwork]

Good for you. Whole lotta people love the guts and will eat some softshell crab. Don't knock it til you try it, Sam-I-Am

[@BOBK-jf4qx]

Hopefully, you don't use Worcestershire sauce.

[@azzir325]

I DO use Worcestershire sauce. I also like sardines and raw clams. Go figure!

[@hernancortez5392]

Ive used what we on Long Island called "green crabs" for blackfish (tautog) bait for decades.. They look similar. Wonder if they're the same.

[@Clarence_13x]

The way the kid pronounced inevitably😂😂😂 now I know how the teacher knew where to find cheap labor😂😂😂

[@jmason61]

Seems like using them for 1) bait. 2) fertilizer 3)pet food 4) people food...you could reduce the population?

[@edithcatdog5605]

Release the otters

[@robertfoerster566]

I always had a saying. "If you can't beat'em...eat'em!" Trust me, if humans get a taste of something we like, no invasive species will be a problem.

[@cameroonkendrick6312]

Imitation crab, now made with real crab

[@bingbangbongmukbang3015]

Sell them to Chinese buffets. People go cray for crabs there. They would sell so many they wouldn’t be able to keep up with the demand

[@darangel2461]

Can they be ground up in their entirety and processed into feed for poultry, hogs, cattle, etc?

[@1_star_reviews]

Soft shell po boy with coleslaw or dressed with tartar sold on the side. Maybe remolaude? Maybe throw some fried shrimp in there too if you’re really looking for a supersized poboy. Cajun original boiled Wonder what they’d taste like in a gumbo? The size is right and if the taste is right start shipping them live to us in the bayou. I want to try a few

[@glamdring0007]

Maine also has other invasive species besides green crabs...like small and large mouth bass as well as northern pike and both can be taken without limits in certain areas of the state.

[@lichtsoldat7697]

Fantastic idea!!! Make lemonade out of lemons. What's better than an invasive species that's now a food source? Perfect. They look delicious!! I'd have them for sure.

[@nohunger3206]

Doesn't look like it has a lot of meat to eat off of, however since it's very abunant, you might as well use them for fish stocks or sauces instead cause it seems like a hassle just to get the meat out of them.

[@Dave_the_Dave]

Could turn them into fertilizer or chicken feed. Won't matter how fresh they are or if they recently molted.

[@SoberOKMoments]

Maine lobsters were actually once used as fertilizer! I'd have a taste of these crabs before consigning them to that fate! 😄I suspect they might be delicious.

[@prowlus]

3:20 So those are KRABBY PATTIES?!😂

[@Mauser1965]

Looks to be a lot of shell/carapace to meat. I'll forgo the experience, but I wonder how they would work ground up to be used as agricultural fertilizer.

[@WJen8]

They're doing good work. The harvesting of invasive species is an underutilized resource in society given its potential. One of the major problems with these species is that they have no natural predators in the area allowing them to propagate limitlessly, which is actually a benefit to anyone that chooses to harvest them - endless supply. Plus this line of work has other benefits including restoring the natural environment, offering additional ingredients to the food market, opening up opportunities for culinary experimentation, and more. If this type of market were more popular and supported by the government or large organizations, think about all the good it could do - sustainability, economy, jobs, education, fighting hunger, etc.

[@B3OWULF416]

You're making a difference by creating a new meal. Imagine if these become like chicken wings in popularity and have chains for them. Crab Stop?

[@chir0pter]

as I'm sure he's aware you can harvest hardshell crabs and keep them in tanks until they molt, then sell them as softshell...seems like a great idea to get more value per crab as opposed to using as bait. Infinite softshell crab glitch!

[@patriot0971]

In FL, I tried lion fish ceviche and fritters and it is amazing. Just because a fish or creature in invasive to the area does not mean that it is not good food.

[@kevinangus4848]

I love mussels, and Maine has huge amounts, but no one eats them. In Maryland, locals ONLY eat male blue crabs. When their price skyrocketed ( about 5X: more expensive than lobster), all Asian stores still had cheap, plentiful non-blue female crabs

[@nabi5864]

Whatever happened to the in invasive succulent giant Tiger Shrimps that was supposedly populating and eating the smaller ones

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

Y’all ain’t eating tiger shrimps? There’s lots of meat in them and they’re good when grilled.

[@robertvelasco6582]

This is almost similar to what we got in the Philippines. "Talangka" is more like these crabs. They are delicious and very popular.

[@Sulfen]

In Idaho we have an invasive fish called Asian common carp in the snake river. They get huge and eat everything in the environment. When we catch them we are supposed to eat them or throw them into the field not back in the water but there's way too many. Some of my neighbors make stews out of it but it has a lot of fish bones. In one fishing trip I can catch like 20-50 pounds of them most weighing 5-10 pounds. It seems like a lot of states are seeing invasive species.

[@robertfunk2796]

they look a little small for the crab diner but not out of the question, might be better to market them as bait but I wonder if a company could come in and make a canned chowder out of them and perhaps call it Maine Green Chowder; one observation about warmer temperature killing them -- will some mutate to handle this factor

[@ponderosaoutdoors]

It’s interesting. Southeast Alaska waters are being ravished by sea otters, but no one seems to care. They leave boneyards wherever they set up shop. I wonder where the disconnect is.

[@johnlundgren5085]

So does this green Crab taste any different than other crabs

[@NeverDauntedRadioNetwork]

Nope. Especially in soft shell, they match blue crabs. This piece was very informative, because you're looking at a multi-pronged industry that's also a pure conservation effort. It will be DECADES before this situation turns, so it's a bonanza for those inclined to make it happen.

[@XGames_Mrated]

This is the funniest headline I’ve read today

[@crptnite]

Because they're sea bugs?