LynneSin
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Wed Jul-13-05 05:15 AM
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http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050713/NEWS01/507130316/1006/NEWShttp://vh10018.v1.moc.gbahn.net/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=BL&Date=20050713&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=507130316&Ref=AR&Profile=1006&MaxW=243&border=1Albino blue crab caught By MOLLY MURRAY / The News Journal 07/13/2005 Commercial crabber Steve Pyle pulled in one of his crab pots off Blackbird Creek on Tuesday morning and couldn't believe his eyes.
Among the writhing legs of drab green blue crabs was an all-white critter -- black eyes staring up at him.
"The only thing that is not white on him is his eyes," said Pyle's dad, Ken.
Ken Pyle, a semiretired commercial fisherman who still helps out his son, said he had never seen an albino blue crab in all his years of fishing. Maybe one with a patch of white or a part of the body that was white. But never totally white.
"We thought it was odd," he said of the crab caught in the waters near Odessa.<<<<snip>>>> The Pyles' albino is a male and still alive. Ken Pyle said it may be introduced to some of the females in the shedding tank as an experiment to see whether they might breed more white crabs.
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| WildClarySage
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Wed Jul-13-05 05:19 AM
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| 1. I can't wait to see some of the copycat threads this spins off.... |
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Wed Jul-13-05 05:39 AM
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| 2. The chosen one has arrived. |
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Edited on Wed Jul-13-05 05:40 AM by pinniped
That crab's smarter than the chimPOS.
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| Raster
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Wed Jul-13-05 07:22 AM
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| 8. it's not White Buffalo, it's White Blue Crab. And caught in a crabpot... |
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...oh the symbolism!!! I think I shall start a religion and apply for tax-exempt status. Next will come Sacred White/Blue Crab University... maybe a casino.
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| usedtobesick
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Wed Jul-13-05 06:45 AM
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| 3. Can I have that with White corn |
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and white butter. I really miss blue claw crabs. Can't get them out west...
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| DoYouEverWonder
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Wed Jul-13-05 06:48 AM
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| 4. So if a blue crab is white |
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then he's not a blue crab. Must be hard. I can't imagine the discrimination he would have faced if he hadn't ended up in a crab cake.
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Wed Jul-13-05 06:58 AM
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| 5. He's not ending up in a crab cake... |
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Edited on Wed Jul-13-05 06:58 AM by LynneSin
...he's going to breed with some female crabs that the crabber is raising at home.
Hey, this is lower Delaware :eyes:
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Wed Jul-13-05 07:02 AM
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Edited on Wed Jul-13-05 07:03 AM by DoYouEverWonder
I think I've been watching too much Sponge Bob Squarepants.
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Wed Jul-13-05 07:21 AM
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| 7. How weird. I didn't know that was even possible... |
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I know he's not cooking him. But, I have to wonder whether the crab would still turn red once it was steamed. :shrug:
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