VERY well put, LIT603! Educate ourselves! Watch the beach sellers - there's a size limit! 3.5 in carapace - one of the guys on the beach was selling them and they were the size of the shrimp in the shrimp ring from Costco! You won't believe what he called little old me when I pointed this out ... Bumba-something woman! I don't think that's a good thing, in his eyes!