Crabs

[reelguy1]

Originally Posted by FF_T_Warren

Female crabs only have eggs once in their life and only molt once. So throw them back when they have eggs. It'd be the ppl keeping crabs loaded with eggs that's the problem. And grand isle has the same thing happen with males. At July 4 I'll catch 15 dozen and 1/3-1/2 may be females with eggs depending on the year but a few years ago I caught 10 dozen in August without a single female

Actually the females molt as many as 25 times in their lives; but only MATE once, before their final molt:

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.s...b_facts.html#8