Blue swimming crab
Interesting Facts
Distribution and Habitat
- Blue Swimming Crabs are strictly marine organisms found throughout the Indo-West Pacific region.
- They commonly inhabit nearshore marine and estuarine waters. While they thrive in sandy substrate habitats, they may also be found on muddy, algal. and seagrass areas from the intertidal zone to at least 50m depth
- Generally, smaller crabs are found in shallow waters while adults are found in comparatively deeper waters
- Juvenile crab individuals are known to frequently enter estuaries and spend their first few months on the intertidal areas, with intertidal flats serving as their foraging area and seagrass beds as refuge.
- as the crabs grow in size and mature, they move towards deeper areas.
Life history and stages of development
The Life history of the blue crab consists of FIVE major development stages. Development is marked by changes in anatomy through a series of metamorphoses.
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30/40 COLOSSAL LUMP
- 30 to 40 lumps per can
- Sweet white meat from the largest crabs
- Best used in crab cocktails, salads, and garnishes
SPECIAL
- Pieces of backfin and white body meat
- Most economical white meat from body of all crabs
- Best used for dips, soups, salads, stuffing, and crab cakes
BACKFIN
- Pieces of broken lump and white body meat
- Sweet white meat
- Best used for dips, soups, salads, stuffing, and crab cakes
SUPER LUMP
- Pieces of jumbo lump broken lump and body meat
- Sweet white meat
- Best used for crab cocktails, crab cakes, salads, and garnishes
90/130 JUMBO LUMP
- 90 to 130 lumps per can
- Smaller lumps of sweet white meat from medium crabs
- Best used in crab cocktails, salads, and casseroles
LUMP
- Pieces of broken jumbo lump and body meat
- Sweet white meat
- Best used for crab cakes and gourmet stuffing
CLAW MEAT
- Crab meat from claws and legs
- Most economical grade of crab meat
- Best used in soups, dips, stuffing mixes, and casseroles
55/75 JUMBO LUMP
- 55 to 75 lumps per can
- Sweet white meat from large crabs
- Best used for gourmet crab cakes
Sex and Maturity Determination
MALE
Female
Feeding
Blue swimming crab is generally classified as scavengers and almost exclusively carnivores, It feeds on decaying organic matter and slow-moving invertebrates such as mollucs, small crustaceans, worms, snails, bivalves and fish larvae. At the earliest life stage. they feed on phytoplankton or small, floating micro algae.
