Sorry, I didn't see your post before I posted mine. but yes I noticed what seemed like millions of them along the shore, I saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time that day.
@@lumburgerjill2438this is a copy and paste from google lol Scorpionfish are bottom-dwelling fish that have also been called rockfish or stonefish because of their tendency to live among rocks near the seafloor. There are more than 200 known species of scorpionfish in the ocean. According to google😅
Back in the late 60s and early 70s those crabs beached themselves from Palos Verdes to the L.A. airport. We filled 5 gallon buckets with them, froze them and saved them for summer fishing when they went back to where they came from. Great bait for calico bass etc.
@@skeymoson No way! Boiling is way better than steaming, juicier and tastier without a doubt! I grew up in Philadelphia where the New Jersey shore is a stone's throw away where we spend our summer times and eat crabs, but we eat crabs year-round in Philadelphia by the tons and even though we're in the proximity of Maryland we prefer to boil our crabs, shrimp etc. I've had both and boiling (done correctly) produces much better results. You can't get the flavor of onions and mushrooms, peppers, beer, corn etc. and a myriad of other flavors and techniques that you can add to a boil with steaming. Btw... I'm a certified chef 🍀
"Hey, Grandpa... What's fer supper?" "Tuna crab soup, tuna crab salad, tuna crab on the cobb, tuna crab steak and tuna crab tuna fish casserole! Belly up to the table, boys and girls! Get 'em while they're hot!" Anybody recall a show named "Hee Haw"?
Not a rockfish - that's a scorpionfish. Pretty wild to see a tuna crab bloom - last one I saw was probably 20ish years ago. The boat I was on ran through a band of tuna crabs a couple of miles (yes, MILES) wide off of San Diego.
They are marketed as Langostino lobster. If you've ever bought a cheap "lobster" dish (like when McDonalds trialed a lobster sandwich), it was probably made with these, not with Maine or spiny lobster. That's not to say they taste bad (I use them as a substitute for crawfish in cajun recipes). They are just not true lobsters.
@@pat.l.h.2730 Actually it was the Japanese who wiped out the abalone. When the economic boom hit Japan, they started sucking up ocean delicacies of every kind.
Apparently, tuna crabs are so tasty that they can't stop snacking on themselves.
Even seafood likes seafood!
They probably eat sewage
They look like crawfish.
I can't help but wonder how they fit on the crustacean family tree, compared to them.
...and taste like chicken.
@@tomsanders5584, Squat chicken at that.
I remember them in the 80’s off Newport Beach. Washed up on the shore, I thought they were lobsters.
Saw these on a toilet seat at a bar in tijuana!
@@user-jc7jb3bu5s Did you take a squat on it?
@@theotheleo6830 a 6 coiler!
Sorry, I didn't see your post before I posted mine. but yes I noticed what seemed like millions of them along the shore, I saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time that day.
How did that reporter make Ana Sagatov sound like Honest to God I saw crabs? 😂
Rock Lobster…down…down…🤣😂
That is not a rockfish in the video it is a California scorpionfish.
Thank you for saying. People just dont know fish and don’t care
Isn’t a scorpion fish a type of rock fish?
@@lumburgerjill2438this is a copy and paste from google lol
Scorpionfish are bottom-dwelling fish that have also been called rockfish or stonefish because of their tendency to live among rocks near the seafloor. There are more than 200 known species of scorpionfish in the ocean.
According to google😅
@@jrpcoins it’s a type of sculpin
@@jrpcoins Scorpaena guttata is a species of fish in the scorpionfish family, while rockfish are in the Sebastes family, they are in no way related.
0:44 even though there's 100s surrounding him, he still tries to be stealthy to snag one lol
If it ain't broke don't fix it
Squat Lobster!!! (in Fred Schneider's voice)
😂😂😂😂😂yes!!!!!
It was already playing in my head.
Thanks! Now I’ll have that playing in my head all day.😂
It's Rock Lobster.
@MD76MAC
I do too, but I’ll probably end up with squat.
I bet they taste great, melted butter and lemon.
And Beers ✌🏼🤣✌🏼
No butter ! Just lemon
@@Prettylovveeyes butter, maybe some garlic too
They in fact do not taste good at all.
Back in the late 60s and early 70s those crabs beached themselves from Palos Verdes to the L.A. airport. We filled 5 gallon buckets with them, froze them and saved them for summer fishing when they went back to where they came from. Great bait for calico bass etc.
Aren't those the tiny Lobsters they served at Red Lobsters?
Nope close though these have smaller claws and tails. Are overall just smaller too but they do look tasty
@@dustintacohands1107 it was a joke
@@dustintacohands1107--"these have smaller claws and tails" ...So they ARE served at Red Lobster.
@@ronmcmartin4513 delicious
@@Encourageable Derp
They look like langoustine crossed with crayfish
That bodes well for this year's bluefin tuna season!
I wonder if these crabs were nearby and there was an accidental sewage leak if they would clean it up?
Omg I want a bucket of those... They're so tasty we call them slipper bugs.
Had crabs once. Hard to get rid of.
One shower with Quell shampoo does the trick!
Ew.
I thought the reporter said, "And I honest to god, dived down and saw a carpet of tuna crabs" instead of Anna Sagavod lmao
we would have a party with those here in New Orleans!!! boil em up yall!!!!❤
Nah ..I’d steam ‘em Maryland Style .. of course I’ve never seen these crustaceans 😂
@skeymoson. Sprinkle Zatarains on them while they steam.
@@skeymoson
No way!
Boiling is way better than steaming, juicier and tastier without a doubt!
I grew up in Philadelphia where the New Jersey shore is a stone's throw away where we spend our summer times and eat crabs, but we eat crabs year-round in Philadelphia by the tons and even though we're in the proximity of Maryland we prefer to boil our crabs, shrimp etc.
I've had both and boiling (done correctly) produces much better results.
You can't get the flavor of onions and mushrooms, peppers, beer, corn etc. and a myriad of other flavors and techniques that you can add to a boil with steaming.
Btw... I'm a certified chef 🍀
They look like hermit crabs without shells!
SQUAT LOBSTAH!!!!
It wasn't a rock...
Motion in the ocean, dooo wah…
"predation event". The jargon is strong with this one...
That fish is going to be huge.
Predation event: nom nom nom!
Too much scientificy lingo to sound super-schmart! Just say they were "EATING" them! (I think George Carlin has a skit about this..)
Beautiful!
Living in New Hampshire and remembering living and diving in La Jolla, then realizing this girl is wearing a down jacket in San Diego!
I still dont understand how people wear jeans here in hawaii. Unless its late night during winter season
@@Matty80822 In the 70s and 80s, dudes wearing just jeans without a shirt at the beach were called "El Cajon Wetsuits".
@traybern winter = nights 10 degrees cooler and rain 5/7 days
"Hey, Grandpa... What's fer supper?"
"Tuna crab soup, tuna crab salad, tuna crab on the cobb, tuna crab steak and tuna crab tuna fish casserole! Belly up to the table, boys and girls! Get 'em while they're hot!"
Anybody recall a show named "Hee Haw"?
Any surplus of life in the Ocean is a welcome miracle. I love to see life thriving in the Oceans. 🙏
Tuna crab? Never heard of them.
IKR ,Pelagic Red Crab
I'm curious as to what classifies them as a crab when they look like a crayfish? To the uninformed this like saying a hummingbird is a type of duck.
Tuna Crabs? We call them lobsters haha.
We call them crawdads, those are too small to be called lobster here.
We always called them Pelagic Red Crabs
Not a rockfish - that's a scorpionfish.
Pretty wild to see a tuna crab bloom - last one I saw was probably 20ish years ago. The boat I was on ran through a band of tuna crabs a couple of miles (yes, MILES) wide off of San Diego.
They are marketed as Langostino lobster. If you've ever bought a cheap "lobster" dish (like when McDonalds trialed a lobster sandwich), it was probably made with these, not with Maine or spiny lobster. That's not to say they taste bad (I use them as a substitute for crawfish in cajun recipes). They are just not true lobsters.
Sculpin, not what we would call a rockfish:)
I wonder if they have natural hoppy and grapefruit flavor???
@@RighteousReverendDynamite is that a ballast point beer reference?
@@DePalma. Yes.
@@RighteousReverendDynamite lol, ok just checking. Anyone outside of SD might not have got that
Scorpion fish.
In the early 80's I visited seal beach and there were many of these on the shoreline dead...
THATS SO COOL I LOVE SCUBA DIVING I GOT CERTIFIED IN LA JOLLA! SEEN MANY COOL THINGS AT ABOUT 40 FT DEPTH
I suck in the water. Many thanks to the ones who like to swim and give us all a look down there.
Pro tip: you suck in the air, not the water.
Thank you.
Are they edible for humans like crayfish or mudbugs as we call them, not much meat but tasty
All nice and fascinating....however, can we eat them?
Enough old crabs walking around.
Incredible sight!
Im a commercial fiaher in SE Alaska and catch these crab in shrimp and crab traps. There are places were there is a lot of them about 400feet deep
What’s the bag limit on them?
Mmmm, time for SD restaurants to put Tuna Crabs on their menus. Locally sourced seafood!
They swim backwards?
Cool.
Isn’t San Diego ocean terribly polluted from Tijuana?
No.
Down south when it rains, yes. But the Tijuana river is 28 miles south of where this story is being reported.
Also, don't forget it's shark season 😂
Do people eat them? If so, is there as much meat in the tail as a crawdad? Is the meat easy to get to? How do they taste compared to blue crabs?
Eating each other, that’s savage!
California crawdads?
So now we know why we had a shark attack?
The tuna is around the crabs and sharks like tuna 😊
Hopefully, we can get a huge amount of Bluefin this year
Sounds delicious
I have never heard squat lobsters called tuna crabs before.
does this mean actual tuna are gonna follow
Watch the Chinese show up and start wholesale harvesting off our shores.
They already do. Literally right up to the international zone border
Nothing new they wiped out the Abalone.
the Chinese,
Mad racism
@@pat.l.h.2730 Actually it was the Japanese who wiped out the abalone. When the economic boom hit Japan, they started sucking up ocean delicacies of every kind.
No shit, they will eat anything until They're all gone.
So, is the name a description of the taste...?
Salt water mud bugs
I remember the B52’s song from the 1980’s…”Squat Lobster”…
Is that longostino?
Looks like good eating to me too!
Unfortunately no. They are toxic to humans.
No smoking? It's a fricking BEACH!
are they good eating or not?
I bet they taste good. Butter and lemon, yum yum.
Anna sagatov.. i thought he said "honest to god"
SCUBA diving is awesome.
That's all good and well. But can you eat them?
I'd call them saltwater crawdads
A little garlic butter. They look good!
“My hand”
Crawfish boil them?
When they live in freshwater lakes and stream they're crayfish. When they live in salt water they've got a different name - tuna crabs. Pffffft
How does one tuna crab?
With net…
With a tuna fork.
You can tuna piano but you can't tune a fish!
Where they tails at
Like someone said earlier, more Tuna crabs = more fat and healthy Tuna populations. Good things compound.
Sea crayfish?
Looks like crayfish (crawdads). Tasty?
Special moment? The waters are getting warmer. Other fish will die.
Predation event? Lol!
New crab dish coming to a restaurant near you
Predation event?
Someone ate someone.
Theory of evolution.
That makes me very concerned. Aparently they are deep water. This is concerning
If your barefoot . ouch...
Looks like a lobster swims like a shrimp fuc it. It's a crab, lol
Load up the skin boat we’re heading to tuna town for crabs
"A predation event"???
Yes, enacted by intersectional, marginalized self-identifying sea animals. It was mostly peaceful.
Predation event? You saw a fish eat a crab.
They look delicious.,👍
They would be on the endangered list if they tasted good.
Why the name Tuna crab?
[Belch!] "Why not???!!! - John Blutarsky, Sergant-at-Arms, Delta Tau Chi.
I WILL EAT ‼️‼️ I NEED BUTTER & BEERS AND CALL THE HOMIES ✌🏼🤣✌🏼🇺🇸
The ultimate bait
Are the good to eat ?
maybe the earth's magnetic field will play a role in many of these issues over the next 20-30 years
It will change as the energy in our environment is depleted as non-organic electricity.
Crab frightened
crab crab scared crab frightened scared crab food hand food crab
scared is hand.
Those look like crawfish
Thems are mud bugs!😂😂
Don’t tell the Chinese Angelenos about these!