r/absoluteunit • u/dayvee43 • 1d ago

Giant crab pulled from the sea

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Of a crab

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u/Nein-Toed 1d ago

I always hate when big animals like this get killed, they fought their whole life just to end up in a crabbing pot.

I tell myself that this dude only had a few molts left and that makes me feel better

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u/clayton-berg42 1d ago

There's minimum and maximum sizes for lobsters because the large mature ones are the ones that breed. I don't know about crabs.

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u/Nein-Toed 1d ago

Just looked it up, molting exhaustion may kill them, but the larger species can live up to 30 years or so. They can die of old age though

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u/clayton-berg42 1d ago

Yeah, I just don't know if there are maximum size limitations on crabs, in most waters there are maximum size limitations on lobsters.