Even Mitchell's competitors agree that it was a brilliant marketing move to convince a handful of influential chefs that a crab variously known as sand crab, mud crab and rock crab, was really a peekytoe crab and more desirable than any of the better known crabs from elsewhere like Chesapeake blue, dungeness and Alaskan king.
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The quarry can be pure fighting glory _ halibut ( last year Selby released a 20-pound flattie that he landed on 12-pound leader after it broke his rod ), barred surfperch, needlefish, spotfin croaker, yellowfin croaker, mackerel, corbina _ or something, shall we say, a little less highly prized _ lobster, rock crab, mussels, kelp, the bottom.
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*Crabs and sea-spiders are defined as including " Atlantic rock crab, black stone crab, blue crab, blue swimming crab, dana swimcrab, dungeness crab, edible crab, cazami crab, geryons nei, green crab, hair crab, harbour spidercrab, Indo-Pacific swamp crab, jonah crab, marine crabs nei, Mediterranean shore crab, Pacific rock crab, portunus swimcrabs nei, queen crab, red crab, spinous spider crab, swimcrabs nei, and tanner crabs nei ".
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*Crabs and sea-spiders are defined as including " Atlantic rock crab, black stone crab, blue crab, blue swimming crab, dana swimcrab, dungeness crab, edible crab, cazami crab, geryons nei, green crab, hair crab, harbour spidercrab, Indo-Pacific swamp crab, jonah crab, marine crabs nei, Mediterranean shore crab, Pacific rock crab, portunus swimcrabs nei, queen crab, red crab, spinous spider crab, swimcrabs nei, and tanner crabs nei ".
