European edible or brown crab, Cancer pagurus, are resident under boulders and cobbles on the Guernsey seashore until they reach a carapace width of between about 9 and 12 cm before they move out into deeper water. The minimum landing size for the edible crab in Bailiwick of Guernsey waters is 14 cm.

This image shows a crab that has recently undergone ecdysis or moulting on the shore in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The crab on the left is alive and has a soft-shell. The empty crab body on the right shows the crab's size before it moulted its old shell and expanded the new one which was formed underneath the old shell. This crab was photographed on the 17 May 2007.
File No. BG 170507 2-903
©RLLord

European edible or brown crab, Cancer pagurus, are resident under boulders and cobbles on the Guernsey seashore until they reach a carapace width of between about 9 and 12 cm before they move out into deeper water. The minimum landing size for the edible crab in Bailiwick of Guernsey waters is 14 cm.

This image shows a crab that has recently undergone ecdysis or moulting on the shore in Belle Greve Bay on Guernsey's east coast. The crab on the left is alive and has a soft-shell. The empty crab body on the right shows the crab's size before it moulted its old shell and expanded the new one which was formed underneath the old shell. This crab was photographed on the 17 May 2007.
File No. BG 170507 2-903
©RLLord