Another lost one
Submitted by PJim on Fri, 2018-02-09 11:55
A mate caught this near the Applecross Jetty a couple weeks ago. Put it on Redmap and got the response that it is only the 2nd reported sighting South of Coral Bay.
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Marineboy
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Nice
cool looking crab !
My spots are so secret even the fish don't know about them !
Faulkner Family
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thats a cool looking crab.
thats a cool looking crab. im guessing it would have come in on a boat of some sort
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
PJim
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They are native to WA, have
They are native to WA, have caught hundreds of them when commercial crab fishing in Sharks Bay out of Carnarvon.
They just not normally south of Sharks Bay
carnarvonite
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Coral Crab
Coral crab, better eating than blueys by far
Paj man
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Swan river
We got one in the swan river a few years back. Told fisheries about it and they seemed to think they were relatively common?
aka Nick
Travisd
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coral crab or ....
Ranga Manna
Baron Sportsman
Just the depth that Varies
duncan61
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asian paddle crab
Could it be an asian paddle crab.It ;looks very similar
just do it.
PJim
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Nope not a paddle crab
Nope not a paddle crab
ranmar850
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Common off Kalbarri
or at least were when I was crayfishing. We called them coral mannas, would catch them on very light bottom in any depth from 14 fathoms out.
Travisd
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Cmon it’s friday
My best mate is red head... he thought that was funny.
FFS Its not a paddle crab... all the other blue manna crabs just call him ‘red’
Baron Sportsman
Just the depth that Varies
Travisd
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When I say common
off Kalbarri. How would u go targeting them in 30+m
Baron Sportsman
Just the depth that Varies
ranmar850
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Well, we used craypots
HTH.
PJim
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We used to get a lot out in
We used to get a lot out in about 14 fathoms when chasing blueys out of carnarvon
little johnny
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Nice looking
Critter.
timboon
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Canarvon how do you compare
Canarvon how do you compare the eating quality of two such crabs??
I find it somewhat baffling that people must have additional senses to me to be able to achieve such an accurate taste perception if thats what its called....
To me a call like that is kinda like saying "fuck rain water is heaps nicer when it rains and the wind is in the East"....
Most people would rate blues as one of the best out there to eat so how can something be so much betterer?