Subtropical crabs that look like lobsters show up in droves off La Jolla Shores beach. El Niño currents brought them from the the Baja Coast and divers say they’re still out there in the La Jolla underwater canyon.
Sorry, I didn't see your post before I posted mine. but yes I noticed what seemed like millions of them along the shore, I saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time that day.
@@pat.l.h.2730 Actually it was the Japanese who wiped out the abalone. When the economic boom hit Japan, they started sucking up ocean delicacies of every kind.
Back in the late 60s and early 70s those crabs beached themselves from Palos Verdes to the L.A. airport. We filled 5 gallon buckets with them, froze them and saved them for summer fishing when they went back to where they came from. Great bait for calico bass etc.
@@skeymoson No way! Boiling is way better than steaming, juicier and tastier without a doubt! I grew up in Philadelphia where the New Jersey shore is a stone's throw away where we spend our summer times and eat crabs, but we eat crabs year-round in Philadelphia by the tons and even though we're in the proximity of Maryland we prefer to boil our crabs, shrimp etc. I've had both and boiling (done correctly) produces much better results. You can't get the flavor of onions and mushrooms, peppers, beer, corn etc. and a myriad of other flavors and techniques that you can add to a boil with steaming. Btw... I'm a certified chef 🍀
They are marketed as Langostino lobster. If you've ever bought a cheap "lobster" dish (like when McDonalds trialed a lobster sandwich), it was probably made with these, not with Maine or spiny lobster. That's not to say they taste bad (I use them as a substitute for crawfish in cajun recipes). They are just not true lobsters.
Not a rockfish - that's a scorpionfish. Pretty wild to see a tuna crab bloom - last one I saw was probably 20ish years ago. The boat I was on ran through a band of tuna crabs a couple of miles (yes, MILES) wide off of San Diego.
I saw these back in the 80s at La Jolla Shores. The illegal immigrants were snatching up them up in plastic grocery bags and cooking them on the grills up at the park there.
Let's call a spade a spade, crawfish. Now how do thy taste? It wasn't a good year for the Louisiana crawfish industry. I want some of these with corn potatoes butter an Bourbon.
