It is taken in wicker baskets resembling a common Mouse-trap, or in nets with large meshes, 
which are baited with garbage and sunk to the bottom of the sea. During the breeding season, 
the female approaches the shore and takes up her residence in a hole amongst the rocks, where 
she is very soon visited by the male, and if he be removed, another will be found at the 
recess of the next tide. Old Fishermen who are acquainted with this fact, discover as 
many females in their retreats, as possible, and are sure of two males a day from each female, 
for from three to five weeks. 
The proportion of males to females, is, one to eleven, which is usual with most of the 
Brachyurous Malacostraca. 
The tips of the claws, were formerly used in medicine, to correct acidities in the Stomach. 
