Blue Crabs: Catch 'em, Cook 'em, Eat 'em by Peter Meyer

A practical and entertaining guide to crab biology, catching crabs, and cooking and eating them, full of detailed illustrations. -- — Gee Gee Rosell, The Island Breeze

An essential book for blue crab lovers. -- Doug Alderson, Florida Wildlife

Crab lovers will be thrilled by this guide on cooking, catching, picking, and eating crabs. -- Savannah Magazine

Crab lovers will feast their eyes on the contents of Blue Crabs: Catch ‘em, Cook ‘em, Eat ‘em. -- Topsail Voice

Fantastic reading and a must for any recreational crabber. Great recipes that take you away from simple pickin' and eatin'. -- Lee Tolliver, Outdoor Editor of The Virginia Pilot

I highly recommend the book to everyone. It is the best popular book on blue crabs that I have seen. -- Vince Guillory, blue crab scientist (Blue Crab Home Page website)

Takes away the mystery of crabbing, explains how easy and fun crabbing is, and makes it accessible to children. -- Robin Sutton, Coastwatch

The recipes are simply explained, well illustrated, and promise many great nights of feasting. -- A.T. Troxler, Beach Weekly News

This delightful family book includes everything from how to catch a crab to low fat recipes children can make themselves. -- Rebecca Jones, Wrightsville Beach Magazine

You'll be ready to head to the beach with some twine, a few chicken necks, and a dip net. -- Chris Powell, Wildlife in North Carolina

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Last year I got a new obsession, crabbing. And when I say "obsession," it's not hyperbole - after I went on the docks in Long Island and New Jersey for the first time in July I was in crab overdrive for the next 3 months, only foiled when I wrecked my car on Southern State Parkway in October on my way out to the Captree docks. I then went into withdrawal and finally remission by Christmas, helped along by my current obsession - reading about crabs. That said, I must say that most of the joy of crabbing is simply pulling up a trap and seeing what's in it (besides blue crabs, I caught spider crabs, leopard crabs, hermit crabs, puffers, croakers, baby bluefish and one summer fluke), so there's not much an instructional book can tell you. I'd even venture to say the subtitle "Catch `Em, Cook `Em, Eat `Em" conveys the necessary instructions sufficiently. But the book did tell me a few things I didn't know from 3 months of crabbing, like some alternate methods of crabbing, like scapping (a fancy term for catching them with a net), trotlining, handlining (basically, throw a chicken leg out in a piece of string and pull it back when you feel a crab eating it) and seining. There a re also some recipes that sound worth a try, and some scientific information that was moderately fascinating - did you know, for example, that crabs are the marine equivalent of spiders, and the only reason they're bigger is that the water helps support the weight of their shell? Maybe you did, but I didn't. Hey, I was an English major.