Northeast USA Spider Crabs

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Too small, nothing significant to eat.
 
Yuck!! Not out of Maclearie Park.
 
What!!

Hell yeah, right out of the peaceful park! The blue-claw crabs we all love are the buzzards of the ocean. They eat dead stuff. The good ones are way upstream, only the roe-covered blue-claw females like the really salty water.

Spider crabs take out the sea stars that wipe out quahogs...

I'm trying to find my place in that ecosystem.
 
Yuck!! Not out of Maclearie Park.
Yeah. I have one phobia-- spiders. That one dive at Maclearie years ago was certainly interesting......
 
My aunt had a bait shop she sold all kinds of bait crabs including, red, green, crabs but not those crabs, they don't even make good bait! If the fish won't eat'em I won't either.
 
Too small, nothing significant to eat.

I see some big spider crabs (3"-4" shell Dia.) here in RI bigger than most other crabs. The legs probably contain some meat but I wouldn't know.
 
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