As of August 2021, the price of pike crabs is now usually around twenty to thirty dollars a catty, which varies from region to region.

Selecting pike crabs, first look at the color, the crab shell green, crab belly white crab must be fresh; then weigh, weight, heavy weight is certainly meat on the fat; the most critical is to pinch the crab legs, with a finger pressure from the top to the bottom of the number of joints of the fourth leg, if you feel that the crab legs are soft and flimsy, the crab is certainly not fat.

Habits of pike crabs

The adaptive water temperature is 8~31℃, and the optimal growing water temperature is 15.5~26.0℃. In different water temperature environments, the activities of pike crabs with three warts are not the same. When the water temperature is below 1.5℃, it does not feed, and some individuals freeze to death in shallow water; at 0~6℃, it does not feed, dives in the sand day and night, and is dormant; at 8~10℃, it starts to stop feeding, and its activity is weak, and it lurks in deep water.

At 14℃, feeding declined, began to move to the deep area, normal activities; at 15~26℃, feeding, normal activities, fast growth; at 17~21℃, the peak of the cross-tailed; at 14~21℃, began to find the group of holding the eggs; at 12~14℃, began to spawn.