Kingtin,Dug, thanks for the info - been delayed a bit, spent the last 4 days away up fishing off coast nth of frazer island. Kingtin, all the pictures I've seen of Japanese spider crabs have looooong legs - up to a 3/4 metre. Wonder if they are the same species or different.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce and canonized those who complain.
Thomas Sowell
Perhaps they're the same ones and those with shorter legs have just put in more mileage? ;-)Originally Posted by Dignity
cheers
kev
the ones I caught had ~0.8 meter long legs + decent carapace
nothing like the australia article posted above (Halicarcinus ovatus)
Dicer, that's what I was thinking of when the spider crabs were first mentioned - maybe yours were the japanese variety
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce and canonized those who complain.
Thomas Sowell
I hope soI would think that the exact location is kept pretty tight.
Otherwise I'm sure they wouldn't last long, and that'd be a bummer as they are probably mating....
Cheers,
Tony
my bet is that the're still there.... probably having a feast on the abalone and mating away like you said. An Infant fishery ? or demise !
Whoops! I understand that the Spider Crabs have landed at Frankstone and have consumed all intelligent life forms.
Nobody is answering the phone in Frankstone...
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