According to the query of the agricultural encyclopedia, pike crabs can be farmed, after December, the pike crabs sold on the market are artificially cultivated, which can make up for the lack of off-season pike crabs, while in the peak season of pike crab growth, most of the market sold from the sea to catch up the wild varieties, and the wild pike crabs have a higher gloss than the shell of the farmed pike crabs.

The pike crab is one of the most productive economic crabs along China's coasts, and has some medicinal value. It is pungent, bitter, and cold in nature, and belongs to the heart, liver, spleen, and stomach meridians. Crab shells have the effect of activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, breaking blood stasis and eliminating stagnation, eliminating food and resolving stagnation.