crabs

This is from may...
 
http://forums.fishusa.com/m_10346/mpage_1/key_crabs/tm.htm#10491

I hope not, if you check the link I posted in there, they will be bad news for the salmonid future in erie. 

Even though we see primarily a stocked population, the preferred food of chinese mitten crabs is the eggs of the salmonid family.  So they would severly hamper future efforts for naturally reproducing populations.

i cot crabs in nam are the same one's i hope not

****! lol

The problem with them is twofold.
1.  Discovery or recognition of a viable breeding population then requires management dollars (even if it is to remove them)
2.  The issue in a multi state/ international fishery become immediatley complicated.
 
Right now there is no reason someone could not put pots out for them.  However it is my thought that at this point there is not a large enough population to make viable estimates from this method.  Of course that opinion is fairly uneducated at this point, as I have not read a lot of the literature on them.  Bottom line is any invasive species is bad.  Look at the history of the lake or any fishery for that matter and nothing good happens when exotics move in.  I would have to believe that if we see them begin to flourish in the lake it is because they have adapted to prefer other food sources.

Steelhead arent a native species

and speaking with lots of perch fisherman theyve been catchin perch with belly fulls of zebra muscels.

as long as those flying grass carp dont get into the lake!

I don't know about if perch like the zebras or not but, I know from the filet board that they sure eat a lot of them.

thanks spoon an everyone else for the help

oth... if they become a food source here then the fish commission will pro just tax us on them or find sum way of them making money on them... even though we are helping the promblem  i think that would be awesome to be fishing for them like they do on deadliest catch..

i dont care what any one say about them if there is 1 then there are many others..  they are just hiding  thanks for th info oth. i think oth wants to go crab fishing on erie like the rest of us haha

Yea I do miss going down the shore crabbing. Ocean City NJ. had a nice hotel on the bay that we would go to. Kids were little and swimming in the pool, docks were right there so I could crab and catch Kingfish, Fluke, and at night STRIPERS! When the stripers would hit, you had to reel in like hell or they would wrap around the docks and bust off. Our room had the kitchenette so I would fry up whatever was caught and bring it out to the pool deck and pass it around to the other guests. Funny, most of the people there were from Western PA. They were good times from what I can remember.
 
Here's the latest Mid-Atlantic report on sightings.
 
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1113_031113_mittencrabs.html
 

Just for fun. Vactions the third week in August.

I wouldn't want them in our coastal waters. They really do a lot of damage to the streambanks. I love the delaware River just as it is.
Neat though how they need to go from freshwater to the ocean to spawn. O

If they taste like Blue Claws it would save a lot of gas though compared to going to the shore.
 
I really think it's inevitable, they'll be up river soon if not already. They found some in the bay so what's to stop them from going up. Just like the Zebra Mussel spreading into PA. waters. The global world is turning into a melting pot of a mess for the local ecosytems. OTH