Mud crab numbers grow, as Queensland study reveals their secret lives. 17m. On Australia's mangrove-lined east coast, the star of the Easter lunch menu is often a delicious, meaty mud crab.

Mud crab numbers grow, as Queensland study reveals their secret lives. By Aaron Kelly. ABC Capricornia. Topic: Fishing and Aquaculture Industry. Sun 20 Apr Sunday 20 April Sun 20 Apr 2025 at 12:30am.

In Australia’s mangrove-lined mudflats and estuaries live armour-plated mud-dwellers with massive bone-crunching claws. Emerging from muddy holes and hides with the ebb and flow of the tides, the ...

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A trip to the mangroves can save north Queensland seafood lovers hundreds of dollars at Christmas, but it's not so easy for those new to the game. Here's how to catch and cook your own mud crab.

AFTER good rainfall throughout the Mackay region in recent weeks, prawn and mud crabs are finally expected to be out in high quantities. Read Today's Paper Tributes & Notices Rewards ...

MUD crabs don’t have fingerprints so their DNA will be used in a prosecution case after 156 crustaceans were seized during a police blitz at Wallangarra on November 19.

There has been enough to get a dirty-water flow throughout most systems and already the mud crabs have been on the move. I expect them to be a popular target leading into Christmas this weekend ...

QUEENSLAND mud crab - the "hero" of our food tourism trade - is under the crunch as tensions boil over in the state's $300 million seafood industry.

A MUD CRAB war is brewing in Mackay waters with threats of violence, fisticuffs over crossed territory, pots being slashed and one fisher describing it as "something out of the wild west”.

Goannas, cane toads and giant mud crabs wreak havoc in Queensland in Suncorp Insurance campaign. May 13, 2019 4:03 by Zoe ... and even a ‘bloody big mud crab’ falling from the sky. ...