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Florida Stone Crab Inc.
Category: Food Specialty Food Seafood Markets Seafood Markets [Edit]
47 du CalvadosCandiac, QC J5R 6H4
(514) 961-7742
- Hours:
Mon-Sun 9 am - 9 pm
Specialties
Our business is providing customers with a high quality sustainable seafood called "Florida Stone Crab" These precious claws come in vacu-sealed 10 lb bags. Sizes offered are:
Medium ( 7-8 claws per lb)
Large ( 4-5 claws per lb)
Jumbo ( 2-3 claws per lb)
Colossal ( 2 claws per lb)
History
Established in 2008
Stone crabs are commercially available since 1921.
Adult stone crabs are easily recognized by their oval body and two large claws. The adult body of the stone crab is dark brownish red, more or less mottled and spotted with dusky gray.
Stone crabs inhabit bays and estuaries where they hide under rocks and shell fragments. When fully grown they move into shoals just below the low tide mark and dig oblique burrows 12 to 20 inches deep. Stone crabs are found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts but are commercially harvested almost entirely in Florida.
Stone crabs are captured commercially with traps which are re-baited every other day. Florida law forbids the taking of whole stone crabs. Fishermen are allowed to take claws at least 2 3/4 inches long and are required to return stone crabs safely to the water. The stone crab can regenerate its claws three to four times.
