A leaflet providing advice to crabbers on how best to care for their catch has been produced by students at Cambridge’s Department of Zoology.

Alongside some basic information about crabs’ habitat and diet, the leaflet offers tips on how to prevent them coming to any harm.

The advice includes:

  • Put seawater in your bucket, never water from the tap
  • Keep at most ten crabs in a bucket
  • Change the water roughly every hour
  • Keep them out of the sun so the water stays cool
  • Throw a few crabs back every now and then, so the same crabs aren’t in your bucket for too long

The leaflet will be distributed in Wells-next-the-Sea, a fishing port on the North Norfolk coast, over the summer.

Will Pearse, a final year student in the Department, who drew up the code said: “I think crabbing’s a good thing to do, it’s fun. But we want children to know what’s best for crabs too.”

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