Stone Crabs

Sorry to disappoint you fellas, but you aren't going to have much luck eating Stone Crab in the DR unless they import them from the Gulf Coast (US) or Florida, only place they grow

I thought so but I stay to myself and enjoy the humor this board provides.

That,s my point to Tony. We could be millionaires if his "info" were true! Criss

Like my crab???

George

I don't know if I "like" your crab or not! Don't know what is is, but I know what it isn't, and thats a Stone crab. May be some inedible piece of garbage for all I know.

Just check some of the Bio Habitats on the Web, you will find no Stone crabs in the DR

Stone crabs are found in Southern Florida and in the Caribbean. They prefer dark silty waters especially near mangroves.

I have personally caught Stone Crabs in the DR. and I have the scar to prove it. Catching a stone crab by hand was a pretty dumb thing to do.

That is a land crab. Common in South Florida and the caribbean. It lives in burrows close to the ocean. Being omnivorous it eats anything it finds. It is common practice to keep captured land crabs for a few weeks in pens feeding them cracked corn to clean out their systems. It improves their taste.

I remember a funny story when I was a kid living in Santo Domingo in the 70's.
Many a weekend we used to visit the isolated beaches of the Eastern DR (before they where developed) using an inflatable Avon boat to reach remote places. Back at the house we had an Alsation dog. Each day he would be fed a large bowel of food. For some reason he appeared to be getting thinner and thinner. So we dewormed him, took him to the vet, checked him out and they could find nothing wrong with him. One day I noticed after his food had been served which was around the back of the house that he seemed scared to approach his plate. It was then that i realised the reason why. From under his house around six large landcrabs appeared and consumed the contents of his plate and he was too scared to go near them. What had happened was they had been brought back to the house from the beach in a small form rapped in the inflatable boat and had grown into fullsize!

No it isn´t an inedible piece of garbage you smart ass.And yes these crabs are very common in the DR.This one was saved from being ran over by a car in the road.I took this pic personally.10 minutes later i watched this dominican boy eat it himself.Most locals catch them around the river and eat them right then.No cooking nothing.Straight out of the shell...

I have one question to anyone who is reading this...Why is everyone so critical on this board?It seems that the one who knows the most about the DR is top dog.What are you all competing for anyway?