How To: Catch Crabs Edition

A few days ago we traveled a couple hours north toward Temuco and did some sample collecting for Tiffany's crab project. Dr. Jara, the mentoring professor, was a great help. He picked us up that morning, showed us the various steps of the crab catching process, brought us into the city after we were done and even bought us some ammmazing icecream (mine was blue-colored vanilla water icecream). Here is the wisdom that Dr. Jara gave to us, which I am now bestowing upon you, to effectively collect crabs.

1. Find a river with access (meaning a fence with barbed-wire that you can climb over or through).2. Simply walk straight into the middle of river. right in the middle.3. Next, set your net against the current and begin to shuffle the rocks in front of it. The crabs will be disturbed and the current of the river should force them into the net.4. After a few minutes of shuffling rocks, pull the net up and inspected the treasures that you have caught.Optional: At this point we also separated the two species that were present in this river and males from females.After a few short hours, we had over 60 crabs for Tiffany to study. Oh crab collecting!