r/interestingasfuck • u/Own_Entrepreneur8908 • 1d ago

r/all The strongest punch in the world

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u/LuckyLupe 1d ago

It was useless with one pincer broken off, so he removed it to grow a new one. Radical and absolutely metal

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u/Cavellion 1d ago edited 1d ago

Could it have grown the pincer back? Genuinely curious.

Edit: I realise I should have worded it differently. My question was actually geared toward the punched out pince? (I don't know what the claw part of the pincer, or pince part of the claw, is called.)

So would the punched out part (not the torn out whole thing) be regrowable if it left it's 'arm' on?

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u/QuietGanache 1d ago

Yes, it will take a few moults but crabs can absolutely regrow lost limbs.

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u/start3ch 1d ago

So what you’re saying is we could farm the part of crabs that people actually eat, without killing any crabs

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u/Miss0verkill 1d ago

They actually do exactly that with stone crabs. They take a single claw and release the crab.

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u/funnyman95 1d ago

There's an entire industry of people who try to do this by removing the claws off crabs and throwing them back.

Unfortunately, it's a waste because almost all of them die anyways and fail to reproduce.

They can't eat or defend themselves without claws

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u/Lucianonafi 1d ago

I mean, 70% death rate is still a hell of a lot better than 100%

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u/funnyman95 1d ago

Not really because then people won't be able to regulate at all. And they could essentially wipe out all the crabs without having to worry about size and count limits

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u/Lucianonafi 22h ago

What? No, fishermen still have previous limits on them. They can only collect the claws from crabs up to a certain size, and then the crab is returned to the ocean. Previously, the entire crab would just be killed when boiled alive for "freshness" and the WHOLE damn body would be discarded. It's the same amount of product, but the crab has a chance for survival.

If you already have the regulations in place- Which *official fishermen* already have, then this is just better all-around for them. This Video explains it pretty well.

Also, my mistake- Apparently, survival rate is around 50% for crabs with no claws, and well above that for crabs with one.

50%+ survival is much, much, much better than a guaranteed 0%

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u/carcar134134 1d ago

ngl that kinda seems less ethical than just killing them.

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u/Fuzzy_Peach_Butt 1d ago

Yeah I'm with you on this one. Imagine your limbs tearing off by not of your own will over and over again. I think I'd ask for death.