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Originally posted by PeaPodbump for mdaddy
and because colongo was awesome
If i was in the adult entertainment business my stage name would be Colongo L. Steel or just Fred.
“Why Bruce?”
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Originally posted by DFreedomMan, it would seem “someone” had quite a bit of down time yesterday.
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
this from one researching computers, starboard and such all week. it just hurts is all
OK lets make one thing clear to everyone saying there is plenty of crabs in the area. The blue crab population has been steadily declining for the past decade. There are now 360 more commercial crabbers in the area. Im all for commercial fishing I might even end up doing it for a living but its not beneficial to the fisherman if there are too many people doing it. Over fishing not only causes issue with the local environments and ecosystems but it can cause issues with other areas as well. It all boils down to more regulations on crabbing its not what anyone wants to hear but it has to happen. Also the reason people are running crabs up to the Chesapeake is because they don’t have any blue crabs anymore because of the crisis in 1990. The commercial fishing industry is still trying to recover from that. One fishery isn’t supposed to be put under that kind of stress. It only is a matter of time before you idiots learn that lesson as well. Its very obvious that some of you were never taught catch and release or only keeping what you need. I also heavily agree with whoever brought up aquaculture. The rate of growth for our area is to great to put on a fishery for food. We need to change with the times even if its not traditional or as much fun. The ocean is our greatest resource so lets not deplete it.
Farmers plant seeds so they’ll have a crop to harvest. You’d think that some of the commercial crabbers would keep a few roe crabs and let the crab hatch and nourish the crabs until they were nickle to dime size and then seed the areas they crab. If 360 crabbers released a couple hundred or thousand crabs back into the system…they’d save their fishery.
SCDNR can’t have the sole responsibility to do this…
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~my dad
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2007 Grady White 222 Fisherman / 250 Yamaha
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1 - 18 year old (fishing maniac)
1 - wife (The Warden)
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Originally posted by Cbmitch1996OK lets make one thing clear to everyone saying there is plenty of crabs in the area. The blue crab population has been steadily declining for the past decade. There are now 360 more commercial crabbers in the area. Im all for commercial fishing I might even end up doing it for a living but its not beneficial to the fisherman if there are too many people doing it. Over fishing not only causes issue with the local environments and ecosystems but it can cause issues with other areas as well. It all boils down to more regulations on crabbing its not what anyone wants to hear but it has to happen. Also the reason people are running crabs up to the Chesapeake is because they don’t have any blue crabs anymore because of the crisis in 1990. The commercial fishing industry is still trying to recover from that. One fishery isn’t supposed to be put under that kind of stress. It only is a matter of time before you idiots learn that lesson as well. Its very obvious that some of you were never taught catch and release or only keeping what you need. I also heavily agree with whoever brought up aquaculture. The rate of growth for our area is to great to put on a fishery for food. We need to change with the times even if its not traditional or as much fun. The ocean is our greatest resource so lets not deplete it.
I’m all for proper stewardship of our Earth, but at the same time I don’t like to go on false information.
How do you know Crab populations have diminished over the last decade. My family crabs yearly for personal consumption and We have seen no decrease in our catch rate.
Sure hate to see crab catching turn out like BSB over some bad or slanted data.
And the reason that I get why so many crabs are going up North and inland is a plain and simple answer. They f
I wish Congolo would come back
Got 7 pages out of him:smiley:[:0]
What are these crabs you keep talking about?
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
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Originally posted by DFreedomWhat are these crabs you keep talking about?
“Apathy is the Glove into Which Evil Slips It’s Hand”, but really, who cares?
One of nature’s delicious delicacies! Hope you are not thinking of the little bastards that can jump 5 feet off a toilet seat or get spread to you by an inconsiderate room mate:angry:. 
While I love some blue crab, dungeness sure is much better!
And then add in some prickly, spiny, alaskan king crab… warm butter a little lemon and a hint of old bay… 
“Why Bruce?”
Here is a pretty reliable source here Fred. http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/species/bluecrab.html
I never make a comment or statement without doing some research and looking up whats actually going on. Also it is easy for people to catch for simple family consumption but when you’re trying to catch hundred to live off of its a different story.
Mating occurs in low salinity upper estuary waters following terminal molting of females. Mating occurs February – November. Females mate only once in life, store sperm internally, and spawn (April-August) multiple times over the next 1 – 2 years.
Hmmm. Didn’t know that.
“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad
Equipment:
2007 Grady White 222 Fisherman / 250 Yamaha
Simrad NSS evo2 and G4
1- 22 boy that won’t move out)
1 - 18 year old (fishing maniac)
1 - wife (The Warden)
ECFC
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Originally posted by Cbmitch1996Here is a pretty reliable source here Fred. http://www.dnr.sc.gov/marine/species/bluecrab.html
I never make a comment or statement without doing some research and looking up whats actually going on. Also it is easy for people to catch for simple family consumption but when you’re trying to catch hundred to live off of its a different story.
I’ve read that same article before. I appreciate anyone’s concern over our natural resources, but I also know how our government agencies tend to have “knee jerk” reactions without proper data. According to that the biggest reason for crabs declining is from lack of fresh water do to drought conditions. On the issue of people harvesting… " potential" for high commercial and recreational harvest, and other words such as “Possible” climate changes and fishing pressure.
Personally I’d love to have not a single Crab pot in the rivers and no such thing as long liners or Whalers, but I know that is being unreasonable.
I do think with the increasing population of the world and it’s demand for fresh food, more emphasis should be put on Aquaculture.
“Why Bruce?”
I appreciate the input but that is also not the only source out there for information. Also I’ve worked with DNR to do other species counts like electroshocking in the upstate. I can attest that they are not skewing data. There could be errors made but its most likely not skewed data. I don’t see what they would gain from putting the wrong information out there. They are simply here to protect our fisheries from people who want to violate it. Although I don’t know how they configured the data shown on their page I can guarantee that it took a long time to acquire it and analyze it. They hire teams of marine scientist to do this kind of stuff. Also the graph is a little out of date so it is possible that there has been a change in population since 2013. Also a droughts are considered to be a climate change and overfishing is an always occurring thing in every fishery. It may occur more or less depending on the location but it is still out there none the less.
Bump for in the grass
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Originally posted by PeaPodI wish Congolo would come back
How dare you sir?!!
“Another poon dream splintered on the rocks of reality.” --Peepod 07-25-2017
this needed bumping for the other blue crab thread.
also, you would be trolls, pay attention to congolo. he was a master. toppyblue was also top 5
I just re-read the first page and feel dummerer for doing so…you guys are mean…and malicious…and mean…especially 23Sellsfish and PooPee… :))
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They are trying to earn a living and I bet you like crabmeat in a restaurant.
Oh and I bet their Granddaddy was crabbing there before your house was built.
Maybe he should have whined about the building of houses around his crab pots
Yankee problems, I swear.
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Originally posted by ColongoThe crabbing for Blue Crab is being wiped out on Daniel Island by commercial crabbers. They have crabbing pots all over the island, outside the creeks, inside the creeks, all around our private docks and even all around the public docks. There are no crabbing left for all that live there. We pay high taxes and this is what we get in return. Our families have no way of crabbing there. We went crabbing the other day and we were lucky to get 3 crabs all day. This needs to stop. What can we do? Help anyone. Thanks
More people profit from commercial/charter fishing/crabbing. People deplete the resources for their own financial gain and then like to talk about conservation. Luckily I have had no problem catching crabs but I’m sure the number are declining.
I don’t have a problem with the crabbing industry other than keeping their floats out of the navigable channels. Nothing like going down the Stono dodging crab buoys. In late summer there will be hundreds in the channel. Kinda gets your goat!
I personally see a huge decline in inshore sport fish since the mass invasion of the tri-county area. I’m more concerned with that than crabs
from DNR website
Conservation concerns: degradation and loss of estuarine habitats; protection of coastal ocean habitat critical to larval development; viral and bacterial prevalence and mortality; potential for high commercial and recreational harvest; mortality associated with abandoned crab pots; gray crab disease (caused by the pathogenic amoeba Paramoeba perniciosa).
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