Blue land crabs are good eating. They are so good they are regulated in Florida to limit their catch to keep the species alive. In the Bahamas and Caribbean they are so popular they are nearly fished to extinction in places. Big suckers with a huge claw and body full of gorgeous white crab meat. If you see them in Texas by all means catch it and boil that bad boy. You can set out chicken wire traps just like water crabs for em that’s what we do on padre don’t let the rangers see they get pissy with land traps on the Nat.seashore.
Good to know. I’ve wondered if they are edible. I have an RV on a canal in Sargent, Texas and these things showed up five or six years ago and started digging burrows behind my bulkhead. I set a game cam out and it took me a while, but I finally caught one of them on film. They would dig from my yard all the way down to below the waterline, or vice versa.