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For residents of Ocean City, July 2021 saw thousands of the horseshoe crabs floating in the inland canals. Reports to the Maryland Coastal Bays Program led to an investigation.
More than 1,300 described species of freshwater crabs are known, out of a total of 6,700 species of crabs across all environments. [1] The total number of species of freshwater crabs, including undescribed species, is thought to be up to 65% higher, potentially up to 2,155 species, although most of the additional species are currently unknown to science. [1]
The A.E. Phillips packing plant processed seafood from many of the watermen in the region. In 1956, after a surplus season of crabs, son Brice Phillips and wife Shirley opened the first “crab shack” in Ocean City, Maryland. Brice and Shirley began building a new dining room each year at Phillips Crab House until it finally seated 1400 people.
The purple shore crab (Hemigrapsus nudus or the naked shore crab [1]) is a common crab of the family Varunidae that is indigenous to the west coast of United States, Canada, and Mexico. H. nudus was first described in 1847 by Adam White , and in 1851, James Dwight Dana formally classified the species.
About one-quarter of the crab's weight is meat. [17] Dungeness crabs can typically be purchased either live or cooked. A humane way to kill a live crab is to: 1) stun the crab by submerging it in ice water for several minutes, 2) flip the crab onto its back, and 3) drive the tip of a small pick about an inch below the center of its mouth.
Liberty Park is a popular public urban park in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the city's second-largest public park, at 80 acres (32 ha), being surpassed only by Sugar House Park which has 110.5 acres (44.7 ha). [5] The park features a pond with two islands, and is also the location of Tracy Aviary.
Crab rangoon was on the menu of the "Polynesian-style" restaurant Trader Vic's in Beverly Hills in 1955 [14] and in San Francisco since at least 1956.[15] [16] [17] Although the appetizer has the name of the Burmese city of Rangoon, now known by Burmese as 'Yangon', [18] the dish was probably invented in the United States by Chinese-American chef Joe Young working under Victor Bergeron ...
Potamonautes platynotus is a species of freshwater crab which is endemic to Lake Tanganyika, where it is the only freshwater crab outside the genus Platythelphusa. [2] Although primarily aquatic , P. platynotus is sometimes seen out of water, and can survive for many hours without water.