Florida’s waters are blessed with an abundance of native species — spiny lobsters, pink shrimp and hogfish snapper, among many others — but king of the winter months is the stone crab, a six-inch-wide ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Stone crab claws are one of the priciest seafoods you can buy. And depending on their size, a pound of claws at a restaurant can cost as much as $70.

but what many might not know is the bulk of their fresh stone crab claws come from across the state. Crabbers on the Gulf Coast harvest more than 300,000 pounds of the sweet crustacean annually.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Stone crab claws are one of the priciest seafoods you can buy. And depending on their size, a pound of claws at a restaurant can cost as much as $70.

And coming in at No. 16 overall on the list was Florida’s beloved stone crab claws. Of course, here in the Sunshine State, they ranked first among the men surveyed. “Fresh and succulent stone ...

Stone crabs can regenerate their claws, which I think is really neat. It's against the law to land a stone crab. So you can't bring one on land on the land. People don't know that, they can live ...

citing in part overfishing and harvesting practices that involve taking one or both claws off a crab and releasing it back ...

A Florida Keys commercial fisherman took first place in the Keys Fisheries’ Stone Crab Eating Contest held Saturday in ...

Jordan Lehmberg of New Port Richey transports buckets of stone crab claws for processing on Wednesday, Oct 23, 2024, at the docks of Pelican Point Seafood in Tarpon Springs. [ DOUGLAS R.

A Florida Keys commercial fisherman took first place in the Keys Fisheries’ Stone Crab Eating Contest held Saturday in Marathon. Bobby Hanousek (HAN-ah-sek) of Big Pine Key, triumphed over 46 other ...

Sit on the patio overlooking the Miami River and order a table’s worth of stone crab claws as you watch the fishing boats pull up with the latest catch. Oftentimes, the owners are the ones doing ...