Blue lobster/crayfish grading

[Gazzmeister]

hi all, can someone please tell me what a grade A blue lobster/crayfish means. There appears to be multiple grades from A to S that I think relates to the colour pattern and how blue it is etc. Is the A the best quality? Plz advise . Cheers

 

[Colin_T]

no idea about grading, but they all turn red and taste the same when you cook em

 

[Gazzmeister]

no idea about grading, but they all turn red and taste the same when you cook em

Haha nice one, made me laugh

 

[Fishmanic]

I think grade A lobsters have a hard mature shell and will have more lobster meat than an equivalent grade B soft shell lobster of the same size. Maine lobsters are the best lobsters for eating... blue lobsters are very rare

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36369687

 

[Peepss]

It’s a meat thing! Lobsters across the board are rated for their meat quality & percentage as well as shell hardness. IMO the blue crayfish you’re probably referencing isn’t worth eating being the cost for one is about 20x the cost of a pound of standard crawfish that we eat down here in the south
I’ve never known them to be rated for color or patterns

 

[seangee]

Never heard of lobster gradings. This is how it works for CRS where it is about colour and opacity. In summary more white is better for these.

 

[Gazzmeister]

Thanks for the responses guys, yes I think I may have misread and the grading the seller is referring to is for shrimp, he sells both Shrimp and crayfish / lobster, that must be where I’ve got the grading of A to S from. Cheers