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I'm hosting a crab boil at my house Oct 10 and am having a bit of trouble finding anyone to ship live blue crab for under $500 .

Anyway, what's a bushel of live blue crab going for out there? I'm looking for 2 bushels of number 1s...number 2s if the price is right. Anyone have any connections? If not, anyone willing to purchase and ship to my house? I'll of course take care of all the costs of the crab and shipping.

Please let me know, thanks!

ps...I'm also looking for (5) or (6) 1lb live lobsters if anyone has any hookups there!

Dnag...who hit he lottery? Paris? Blue crabs? LOBSTERS?

How YOU doin'?

sunseeker wrote:Dnag...who hit he lottery? Paris? Blue crabs? LOBSTERS?

How YOU doin'?

Hehe, sup baby!

I just called the seafood place I grew up eating at by my moms house in Philly...a bushel of 1s is $120, 2s are $75...the online companys want $180. I refuse to be ripped off!

Captain Morgan wrote:I'm hosting a crab boil at my house Oct 10 and am having a bit of trouble finding anyone to ship live blue crab for under $500 .

Anyway, what's a bushel of live blue crab going for out there? I'm looking for 2 bushels of number 1s...number 2s if the price is right. Anyone have any connections? If not, anyone willing to purchase and ship to my house? I'll of course take care of all the costs of the crab and shipping.

Please let me know, thanks!

ps...I'm also looking for (5) or (6) 1lb live lobsters if anyone has any hookups there!

try crabplace.com...they'll hook you up with everything you need

Did you get the my message that night about a month ago? I have never laughed so hard in my life.....

sunseeker wrote:Did you get the my message that night about a month ago? I have never laughed so hard in my life.....

yes, I saved it...I recorded it to a mp3 file and play it at all my parties now

Captain Morgan wrote:

sunseeker wrote:Did you get the my message that night about a month ago? I have never laughed so hard in my life.....

yes, I saved it...I recorded it to a mp3 file and play it at all my parties now

Frank4 wrote:

Captain Morgan wrote:I'm hosting a crab boil at my house Oct 10 and am having a bit of trouble finding anyone to ship live blue crab for under $500 .

Anyway, what's a bushel of live blue crab going for out there? I'm looking for 2 bushels of number 1s...number 2s if the price is right. Anyone have any connections? If not, anyone willing to purchase and ship to my house? I'll of course take care of all the costs of the crab and shipping.

Please let me know, thanks!

ps...I'm also looking for (5) or (6) 1lb live lobsters if anyone has any hookups there!

try crabplace.com...they'll hook you up with everything you need

thanks but I checked them. They want $209 for a bushel of 1s...plus shipping!

maybe you just shouldn't live in crappy detroit.

I have used these guys to ship lobsters to my Grandparents. http://www.sagamorelobster.com/

I'll look for the number of a girl I knew in High School. Back in the day, she'd give ya all the crabs you could handle for the price of a cheap 6-pack.

rednekkPH wrote:I'll look for the number of a girl I knew in High School. Back in the day, she'd give ya all the crabs you could handle for the price of a cheap 6-pack.

Did you leave her on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere?

I don't know try these:

http://store.redlobster.com/LiveLobster ... 1221687360

http://www.lintonsseafood2.com/steamed_ ... bs_s/3.htm

Good luck.

is there a restaurant that you are always at? or belong to a private club....talk to their chefs and see what they can do for you!

Good luck!

You know we love you whether you have crabs for us or not, right?

rednekkPH wrote:I'll look for the number of a girl I knew in High School. Back in the day, she'd give ya all the crabs you could handle for the price of a cheap 6-pack.

look in the yellow pages for a restaurant supply house..
Ocean Beauty is one name..
or a Seafood supplier..

sometimes they can help..

rednekkPH wrote:I'll look for the number of a girl I knew in High School. Back in the day, she'd give ya all the crabs you could handle for the price of a cheap 6-pack.

ahhhh.. Burgie, Max, or Shaeffer... good times.

you could visit the Blue Crab Festival in Palatka, Florida......but they held it back on Memorial Day weekend.

Other than that....I have no idea.

I will check around here in Savannah and see what I can find out for you.

unfortunately the price of blue crabs has gone way up in recent years. I grew up on a river by the Chesapeake bay (best blue crabs in the world bar none) and was eating blue crabs before i could walk. My father still lives there and i think he pays close to $100.00-150.00 a bushel. The quality and size has gone down hill as people crab in the off season which effects the population as well as conditions in the bay. I remember as a kid we would crab off of my dad's dock with a string and piece of chicken and catch crabs all day. Now the population has decreased as people go over the limit on females not allowing them to regenerate. It really is a shame. I live in the seafood capitol of South Carolina and the crabs we get here are pathetic, very very small and at least 1/4 are always females. There used to be a restaurant in OC MD where you could bring a cooler of beer and sit down at a picnic table and they would bring blue crabs until you could no longer function you were so full. You may want to try to contact someone in the bay area however i know the quality has gone down as well as the quality. One thing i always look forward to when i go visit my father is eating blue crabs, but sadly its just not the same as it used to be. This is a good article about the ongoing problems in the bay with the blue crab population.

http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=3325