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I did a decent amount of research into this a while back. They (blue crabs) can be grown in captivity, but they’re cannabalistic, so they have to be kept apart
by opportune 4y ago
I did a decent amount of research into this a while back. They (blue crabs) can be grown in captivity, but they’re cannabalistic, so they have to be kept apart from each other. This makes it pretty inefficient and high overhead. The crab farming operations I’ve seen literally have each crab in its own little compartment - this is too labor intensive to be feasible outside of places with very low wages like the Philippines and Indonesia.
If someone can figure out how to keep crabs in large pens without them eating each other, they will make a lot of money. I’m not sure if that’s possible with selective breeding. Maybe we need to wait until crab legs can be “printed” or grown in a lab
- 01100011 4y ago> but they’re cannabalistic Seems like a place where GMO organisms might make sense. You just have to knock out this behavior somehow.
- ericjang 4y agowould it be simpler just to de-claw the crabs so that they are unable to poke / snip at each other?
- scottLobster 4y agoClaws have some of the best meat, if anything you want larger claws
- rhodorhoades 4y agoBut maybe just the pointy, immobile part of the crab claw would need to be removed. That usually doesn’t have too much meat.
- tsol 4y agoPut a rubber band on the claws. Like they do in the tanks at red lobster.