Posted on Wednesday, October 15, 2014
(no that is not a crab in my stone crab trap but an octopus – leave crabbing to the pros!)
Many of my Naples lifestyle posts are food oriented which might be a bad thing as I could certainly drop some LBS but wow you have to love these stone crabs. Fresh caught, easily cooked up and delicious. Yes they are wild and “free range” all protein so you can add the organic and gluten free label to them. Dig in.
Before we get these delicious critters to the table we need some really hard work on the Gulf. I have to take my hat off to the crabbers. Many a tourist, or year round resident, may notice crab traps piled high on the shore in the off season or perhaps they dodge the crab pot balls as they boat around on the Gulf. They may not be aware of the hard work it takes to get a crab claw from the bottom of the gulf to your table.
How much work? A crabber once told me the big operations may have a few thousand traps on the ocean floor and pull up hundreds a day to check, catch, take a claw, release, re-bait, and toss back in. Tough work. Sometimes in windy weather stirring up the waves and the ride (like this week) and long hours. Sure they make money but they have to get it done from October 15 to May 15.
The Naples News reported last year’s season was slow for the crabbers statewide but the Collier numbers held up ok. I encourage you to read the complete article at http://www.naplesnews.com/news/local-news/tis-the-season-for-crabs-and-claws_90389693.
There are two ways to tell if we are having a good or bad crab season. The easiest way is to tell how the crab season is going is to watch the prices at the restaurant. A slow season combined with hungry tourists will drive the prices up. The second way to tell is to ask a local. Ask the crabbers themselves or the folks at the Farmers Market. My favorite source is Damus Kirk. He is a little harder to find these days but I know of a certain dock and at a certain time of day where I am likely to see him. So what? Damus is from a long line of Naples seafarers and remains in the business. He knows just about all there is about crabbing and the crabbing season. I will check in with him – maybe tomorrow – and see how the season the season got started.
It is my hope we start strong this morning for the sake of everyone involved. Crabbing is one of our great local businesses employing folks and producing a product everyone – local, seasonal and tourist alike – chow down.
Those are our thoughts about a great part of the Naples lifestyle. Keep these good folks in your thoughts this morning and they head out this morning in the rain to check their traps.
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