Give it to their partners.

I see what you did there. Bravo.

Where did you think La Conga gets seafood.

They are blue claw crabs (the same kind Chesapeake Bay is famous for) so they definitely have culinary value.

They’re def getting eaten

Illegally sell them to restaurants.

Can you actually eat them though? I would imagine they aren't exactly healthy to eat.

I looked this up once. In short, women still planning to have kids should not eat them and neither should kids. Only eat the leg and claw meat and limit the amount to something like 5 crabs per week.

^this^

Not sure why anyone would want to risk eating anything from known polluted waters

https://wpdh.com/how-many-hudson-river-crabs-can-you-eat-before-being-poisoned/

Depends on what crabs we're talking about. Are they big blue claws like you'd see in the restaurant, or are they small, only a couple inches across? Blue claws are eaten but you shouldn't eat them from the river. If they're the latter, they're invasive European green crabs, and a very popular bait for blackfish.

There are some people in New England trying to develop a culinary fishery for them, but it involves catching them, waiting for them to shed, and then eating them as soft shell crabs.

Thanks for this. 6 crabs per week and eat at your own risk. Just not worth it yet, unless you have no options.

https://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/outdoors/fish/health_advisories/regional/hudson_river_and_tributaries.htm#table

Here is the advisory and recommendations on how to cook. Everyone evaluates risks differently. I have eaten fish/crabs very sporadically over the years from the Hudson/ NY Bay. I always found it strange while fishing when somebody came by overweight and chain smoking saying they never would eat a fish from the river. Certainly their odds of cancer (if they don't die of heart attack first) would be higher for someone who smokes/has unhealthy lifestyle.

Surf City is the answer

We're crab people, now.

Rat bait, no additional poison needed.

I wish the Hudson was clean enough to be able to eat blue claws, they’re delicious.

Walk like crab, talk like people

I eat the migratory fish from the river like fluke, tog and the rare barely keeper striper. They are only here a few months of the year unlike crabs or white perch, and there's really no difference between the fish population in the River/Bay and those in the Sound or Raritan Bay. The striper you catch off of Montauk might have been up the Hudson River just a few days earlier.

I can’t speak to now, but in the 80s my sister used to buy and eat them at a cart in Curries Woods. 😬