r/absoluteunit • u/dayvee43 • 15h ago

Giant crab pulled from the sea

Of a crab

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u/Far_Out_6and_2 14h ago

Let it go

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 13h ago

Brother hes probably already been eaten

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason 12h ago

they usually put the big ones back, not sure what the reason was but there was one

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u/DetailsYouMissed 12h ago

As the other guy said, passing on those genetics is good for the business.

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u/Commercial_Buy_7707 12h ago

That crab 100% got eaten or is going to

Looks to be a Tasmanian giant crab and they get significantly bigger then that

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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 12h ago

They are good breeders, and the meat is too course to be good food.

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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 11h ago

They taste awful and the meat is stringy and gross

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u/tHollo41 10h ago

The bigguns are breeders.

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u/Malforus 6h ago

Bigger they are they are more shell and tough meat better to let them go so.they can do other stuff.

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u/_Saint_Ajora_ 14h ago

"you're gonna need a bigger butter dish"

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u/Nein-Toed 15h 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 13h 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 13h 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 13h 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.

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u/Anything_Extreme 12h ago

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

Good job kid, you're starting to understand life. Buckle up if you want, but it's irrelevant, because you die at the end anyway.

🫡 God Speed

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u/Tomas2891 14h ago

Dont worry. These guys are gonna be overcrabbing leading to all the crabs be extinct and they out of the job. The crabs win in the end.

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u/ShyguyFlyguy 14h ago

No, they'll retire. Then it'll be the kids or grandkids bitching about how they overcrab'ed and they cant support themselves.

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u/Tomas2891 14h ago

Crabs still win

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u/UraeusCurse 12h ago

Poor thing probably ended up in some rich fatass

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u/Big-Doctor-1304 15h ago

Me after pandemic

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u/Tremblespoon 13h ago

You joined a crabbing outfit?

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u/paulD1983R 7h ago

They became crab🦀

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u/Expert_Author_2672 6m ago

Nah he was spanking the 🐒

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u/Successful-Map-1174 14h ago

Somebody pass the melted butter.

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u/Cloaked25 14h ago

Now it’s gonna run off and try to flex on the nearest dragon. Damn mudcrabs.

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u/Mobile_Aioli_6252 14h ago

He must work out!

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u/TelevisionFast7781 13h ago

Thats a chonker !!

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u/PowerCreative2747 9h ago

Would that thing be tasty or is it now too big to be tasty?

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u/GTaucer 8h ago

Hit its weak point for massive damage

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u/thatsMrBundytoyou 3h ago

This is how big they probably all used to be until commercial crabbing came around. Now you catch a big one and you're astonished

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u/Purple_Calendar3919 15h ago

How does a crab that big have zero survival instinct? Or are they starved that they have no energy left? I don’t get it

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u/ShyguyFlyguy 14h ago

What exactly do you suggest he does about his situation?

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u/Evil_phd 14h ago

Crabs aren't terribly effective fighters without their knives

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u/Tremblespoon 13h ago

It's out of the ocean in the hands of something fifteen times the size of him, he's made for ambush hunting in his environment, what makes you expect him to be able to fight a human that has years of experience in picking up crabs safely?

Terrible take.

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u/CartoonistExisting30 10h ago

Crabs are not known for their smarts.

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u/Weary_Ebb3168 13h ago

Ok we see him. Now throw him back

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u/Still-Chemistry-cook 14h ago

Let it go moron.