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Where can you find giant Blue Crabs?

Posted on August 18, 2010August 18, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 10 Comments on Where can you find giant Blue Crabs?
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A crab pickin’ mug to the first reader* that can identify where this blue crab (Calinectes sapidus) came from:

40ml falcon tube and hand shown for scale.

~Southern Fried Scientist

*Post answers in comments. Authors of Deep Sea News and Southern Fried Science Network not eligible. Contest ends 9:00 AM August 19, 2010.

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10 thoughts on “Where can you find giant Blue Crabs?”

  1. Tyler Dukes says:
    August 18, 2010 at 10:02 am

    Is it Chesapeake Bay, Va.?

  2. Sharon Homer-Drummond says:
    August 18, 2010 at 10:54 am

    Mid and South Chesapeake Bay

  3. Kelly Darnell crab expert says:
    August 18, 2010 at 11:12 am

    Lake Matamuskeet

  4. Southern Fried Scientist says:
    August 18, 2010 at 11:14 am

    We have a winner! Impressive.

    Send me a mailing address and we’ll send you a mug.

  5. casey says:
    August 18, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    nova scotia to Argentina

  6. Southern Fried Scientist says:
    August 18, 2010 at 12:19 pm

    That would have to be one really long crab

  7. Southern Fried Scientist says:
    August 18, 2010 at 1:38 pm

    Crabs in Lake Mattamuskeet get huge!

    big crab

  8. Chuck says:
    August 18, 2010 at 3:21 pm

    My adviser likes to take his classes down to Mattamuskeet for field trips. It’s a truly bizarre ecosystem thanks to all the canals going in and out of it. When I was there we had one gillnet that had both blue crabs and largemouth bass in it.

  9. patrick says:
    August 18, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    can I have a mug anyway?

  10. Southern Fried Scientist says:
    August 19, 2010 at 9:49 am

    You can purchase as many as you like from our store.

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