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Check out the World Famous Blue Crab Festival this weekend in Little River, South Carolina. Up to 40,000 visitors are expected to come to the event, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday.
The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus was chosen as the state crustacean of Maryland in 1989. [17] C. sapidus is a crab found in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific coast of Central America and the Gulf of Mexico. The blue crab may grow to a carapace width of 230 mm (9.1 in).
Blue crab escaping from the net along the Core Banks of North Carolina.. Callinectes sapidus (from the Ancient Greek κάλλος,"beautiful" + nectes, "swimmer", and Latin sapidus, "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or, regionally, the Maryland blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and introduced internationally.
It is commonly featured on the menus of many Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia restaurants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The soup is named for the "she-crab", or female crab, originally a gravid (roe-carrying) crab, as the orange crab roe comprise a chief ingredient in traditional she-crab soup.
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Much of this foreign crab is reportedly caught and imported illegally and has led to a steady decline in the price of crab from $3.55 per pound in 2003 to $3.21 in 2004, $2.74 in 2005 and $2.30 in 2007 for Aleutian golden king crab, and $5.15 per pound in 2003 to $4.70 in 2004 to $4.52 in 2005 and $4.24 in 2007 for Bristol Bay red king crab.
For the next five harvesting seasons, horseshoe crabs cannot be taken from dozens of South Carolina beaches. Court order stops horseshoe crab harvesting on dozens of SC beaches, protecting red ...