@@Mobin92 They're harvested during malting season and therefore don't have a hard shell. Everything is edible and tastes great. Also they're obviously very soft when you actually pay attention to when he deepfries them.
This isn't an issue at all for South East Asians lol this be food for the villagers easy snack. I guess Americans needs to stop being picky. If it tastes like regular crab , find a way to fry it up or make it a cheap food source and people will buy it.
I would think they could be converted into fish food for farm raised fish or incorporated into animal food, especially for cats. My dogs love cat treats! Personally, if they taste like soft shell blue crabs, I would definitely try them. I don’t like steamed blue crabs but soft shells are a delicacy.
@@tomevers6670 Unless you are getting really small crabs, it's really easy. I will agree with messy, but you can get most of the crab meat out in 1-2 minutes with a paring knife. Although, I did work at a crab restaurant (that had all you can eat) for 2 summers when I was 17 and 18 years old.
This man deserves more recognition as an incredible teacher and educator. He has not only found and applied a practical, even profitable answer to an environmental issue of their local community but has also enlisted the next generation to be involved in that solution.
Sell to South East Asian markets. These can be made into a variety of sauces, fermented sauces/paste. Wish we can get a hand of these on the west coast.
Soft shell crabs to be fried, older or bigger ones can be boiled for flavor & broth & sauces. The leftover can be dried & pulverized into a fine powder for even more flavor, seasoning & many other uses.
@@Garuwashii yeah i know, but still, yeah like lemme chew on a shell real quick, yeah nah dont care, a man in china would tell you eggs are meant to be soaked in little boy piss before you eat them, doesn't mean you should, still a nasty freak if you eat that shit.
@@siggybuttbrain7026 I'm genuinely surprised how many people don't know about soft shell crabs. I mean they clearly state in the video that it's malting season
This is the same thing that's happening here in Texas but with wild hogs. In some counties, hunting is free game for invasion hogs. Get as many as you can and just eat them. Plus, in some southern states, there's an invasion fish that isn't desirable to eat but still great when made the southern way or simply fried fish. Some states have no limits on how many invasive fish you catch as long as they're the invasive ones.
Yeah but here in Texas we see anything that moves here from just about anywhere and call it invasive ;) Californians and Yankees are not good eats! On the other hand look at those giant Crawfish that we're seeing now. "Australian Red Claws". Delicious!
@@djinconroe Which states have the most child abuse victims? "In 2021, about 52,345 unique victims of child abuse were reported in Texas, the most out of any state." That's right.... just a quick reminder that you folks are exactly what you accuse everyone else of being. It wouldn't surprise me if Texas also did have a ton of folks quite interested in consuming their fellow human beings. Because you folks in Texas are sick. Really, really sick.
I’m from Massachusetts. The green crab has been here from 1817 or earlier. Our biggest issue is a new invasive species, the Asian shore crab. Many people don’t know periwinkles in our region are also invasive…
My family used to gather and cook those periwinkles. Never realized they were invasive though. Gathered up buckets of the periwinkles, boiled them with some garlc and spices. Mom just gave me a bowl of them, with a pin to pick them out of the shells. Thinking about it, a very early memory, I ate thema few times at a neighbor's house, so it must have been a multi-family effort.
@@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive of course, but they destroy local fauna and flora here even if harvested. Many of the marine creatures that were ubiquitous when I was a kid are gone now and I doubt are ever coming back,,,,
Weird how we never get invasive species that are properly tasty. The East Coast of the US doesn't get brown crabs (Cancer pagurus) and we in Europe don't get Dungeness crabs or Spot prawns. For any anglers reading this, green crabs make great bait, and you will find dozens of tutorials from the UK on the use of "Peeler crabs".
@@la7dfa Yes. There was a bit of a panic a couple of years back when someone caught a couple of "king crab" off the north-east coast of England. Just as a few commercial crabbers were getting overexcited, a biologist stepped in and pointed out that they were in fact native northern stone crabs - Lithodes maja.
I agree that it seems most of the biggest problems are disgusting in taste (the pacu fish in florida comes to mind) but they are also not getting their usual diets so they may be different in their natural areas. It seems like a smart thing to evolve though - a bad taste to the world's most successful predators, humans.
See this is what you should do with invasive species. In the south kudzu is taking over. But on Japan it's considered a cooking staple. Green crab,kudzu,carp, heck even Nutria. With all this the rule of thumb should be. If you can eat them in the country that they came from you can eat it here. Start making with the recipes people. This is also good for food instability. If you have a overabundance of a invasive species. Just grab the BBQ sauce.
“Your body’s wide well mine is too, you better watch yourself, or I’ll sit on you. The word is out better treat me right, ‘cause I’m the king of cellulite. Ham on, ham on whole wheat, or rye, that’s right.”
How come you're always such a fussy young man? Don't want no Captain Crunch, don't want no Raisin Bran! Well, don't you know that other kids are starving in Japan? So eat it, just eat it!
While soft shells are the holy grail, and priced so, the medium size hard shells are excellent for deep frying and an excellent umami seafood flavor. The large ones (4” carapace) are good for picking if you understand how. This is a great informational piece from News Center, green crabs are a real problem, but also offer some potential.
@@george40nelson4 soft shell blue crabs are "farmed" by keeping crabs that are about to molt in a tank. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rhHMqMmQbXc.html&ab_channel=ZAKCATCHEm%27
Reminds me of what happened to bombay locusts in Thailand where i am from, initially the Thai goverment proposed the widespread use of pesticides, but the Thai locals appealed to the goverment to repress the act as they now had the new occupation and cultures from selling them. Felt like disgust was working against us initially, might sounds narrow but it seems that this ended up became a delicacy and it is said that it does smell better than a meatball to locals and for some regional farmland became a hidden farmland paradise not affected by consequences of massive uses of pesticides .... negibouring countries suffered the heavy uses of pesticides in farmland unfortunately.
@@chopchop3464. I don’t care for blue crabs except soft shell, fried the way these are shown. They are a delicacy on the East Coast, US, where restaurants charge premium prices. If you haven’t tried them, you may find them to be delicious. They don’t taste like blue crap, steamed, and picked from the shell.
Green crabs are safe, but don't get too adventurous. There are over 500 species of crab in the Xanthid family, and a good many of them are lethally toxic to humans, with no antidote.
Since green crabs originated in Europe, there has to be dozens of human recipes. Rather than sell them for pet food (which will typically be low cost), they should do a deal with Red Lobster or some other big chain. It's a win win... large corporation helps limit an invasive species at maximum profit for the chain/farmers.
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Send some of those suckers this way. There are many people in Pa. who would love to have them on their dinner table. We don’t get a lot of fresh shellfish where I live. You have to travel it seems for hours.
Oh....What terrible luck....Not! Take a couple halved Deep Fried Softshell Crab, Fragrant Jasmine Rice, Asparagus, Scallions, dressed with a Spicy Mayo Citrus Sriracha, a Cool Wasabi Creme, and a Sweet Soy Reduction, and top it off with Flying Fish Roe once all is twisted up like a Fatty; inside a Seaweed Cone.... All-Day/Every-Day Temaki Handrolls!
@@Dakarn LOL, there would also be far more productive invasive species to turn into fertilizer. Takes a crew of 5 a season to get a truckload of fertilizer worth a few hundred bucks. That same crew could come to the midwest and harvest that many invasive carp in a weekend.
Mcdonalds should just make the Filet-o-fish out of them. They're seasoned so much that you could really put anything in there. Onshore all the jobs of fishing and processing back to USA.
lol i was saying why not just make it into those sticks of imitation crab meat (usually made from pollock I believe) I make sushi with that all the time
Those should be frozen and sold as sheepshead and tuatog bait. Fishermen will pay 6-8 bucks a dozen for cutters and buy the little ones by the lb. Best bait for drum, sheep, tog and many other species.
Fantastic idea!!! Make lemonade out of lemons. What's better than an invasive species that's now a food source? Perfect. They look delicious!! I'd have them for sure.
Ohioan here. I’d eat green crabs in a dish, no hesitation. Some of those looked really good too. It’s just a shame that Maine isn’t as close to me as PA is
Except for that invasive jellyfish they are dealing with over there. They love the fish eyeballs, the creepy 1000 year egg, fermented fish gut juice and every weird, unappetizing thing imaginable but NOT the damn jellyfish that's taking over and desperately needs thinning out.
Thank you. This is what a lot of states should try to do with invasive species all over the country. If not eating them then think of something else to destroy them. Super smart idea. You would think other states down south would get with the program (idea), because at some point…in my opinion, the invasive species will start to migrate further mid-east to upper east if they can. Some states should’ve thought of this idea before it got worse, but seems like they’re thinking of other things that make no sense.
@@skehleben7699 funny how I never said I wanted to eat Python meat, but I’m sure some people would eat it. It amazes me how people read (and don’t read) into something that wasn’t mentioned. Was just agreeing to the idea of trying somehow to get rid of at least most of the invasive species that are in the states.
My state has invasive crawdads we're... NOT ALLOWED TO CATCH OR EAT. That's right. Fish and Game has told us, we are NOT ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING TO THEM. However, I'm tempted to drive down and get some ANYWAY and have myself a boil.
cause a lot of americans are very picky about their food. If china had a similar problem, the invasives would be eaten up so fast they'd have to start farming them to meet the new demand.
A live green crab might be the best fishing bait ever. They arent to large or have big pinchers. Down South we either you fiddler crabs, small blue crabs or break a blue crab in too two baits.👍👍Great film.
Get that Cajun softshell crab po' boy recipe going you'll sell... We eat the hell out of blue softshell here in the South and have for decades. Deep fried goodness I love em.
Soft shell po boy with coleslaw or dressed with tartar sold on the side. Maybe remolaude? Maybe throw some fried shrimp in there too if you’re really looking for a supersized poboy. Cajun original boiled Wonder what they’d taste like in a gumbo? The size is right and if the taste is right start shipping them live to us in the bayou. I want to try a few
In Idaho we have an invasive fish called Asian common carp in the snake river. They get huge and eat everything in the environment. When we catch them we are supposed to eat them or throw them into the field not back in the water but there's way too many. Some of my neighbors make stews out of it but it has a lot of fish bones. In one fishing trip I can catch like 20-50 pounds of them most weighing 5-10 pounds. It seems like a lot of states are seeing invasive species.
Given the origins of certain dishes that have become expensive, I wouldn't be surprised if green crabs became something people ate as a status symbol. Lobster used to be considered 'peasant food', but now look at it.
I love mussels, and Maine has huge amounts, but no one eats them. In Maryland, locals ONLY eat male blue crabs. When their price skyrocketed ( about 5X: more expensive than lobster), all Asian stores still had cheap, plentiful non-blue female crabs
Nope. Especially in soft shell, they match blue crabs. This piece was very informative, because you're looking at a multi-pronged industry that's also a pure conservation effort. It will be DECADES before this situation turns, so it's a bonanza for those inclined to make it happen.
I kinda want to, but don't know if its legal. Breeding the green crab to be bigger so they are more sought after and have a harder time keeping their population big due to looking for bigger food items
Maine also has other invasive species besides green crabs...like small and large mouth bass as well as northern pike and both can be taken without limits in certain areas of the state.
