Luke McFadden
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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It's because they shed when they shed, you know.
So, they'll go to...
slough their shell, obviously they have exoskeleton, right?
They can't grow their skeleton, so they have to shed out of it, so they grow a larger skeleton inside their shell.
And then they'll back out of the back of their shell and be a soft crab.
But it takes them a little while to,
get that new shell hard.
So they kind of fill it out full of water inside of them.
And then all their energy is going to getting that shell hard as fast as they can.
Yeah, to be able to defend themselves.
So they're absorbing calcium through the water and all that kind of stuff to get their shells harder.
A lot of times we'll find light crabs on shell bottom, hard bottom, because they're hanging out in oyster beds and things like that, picking at the shells, trying to get right to be hard enough to defend themselves.
And then after...
they do that, then they'll start to fill their insides out.
You know what I mean?
It's like all their energy is going to.
But you'll notice like female blue crabs, I don't know if it is the same with Dungeness, but female blue crabs will get their shells harder, like twice as fast as a male because the only time a female crab is going to shed, a female blue crab is going to shed or is a
Yeah, is going to shed is when they shed from an immature female to a mature female.
Okay.
And then that's the only one time they're going to mate in their whole life is when they are a mature female soft crab.
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