Aripeka
Stone Crab Co.
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Aripeka, Florida Since 1985

Aripeka Stone Crab Co.: Stone crab claws, off our own boat.

We’re a family fishery on the Gulf. Captain Matt pulls the traps, the claws are cooked right off the boat, and they’re on ice at our market by the bridge, usually within a day.

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Mon to Sat 10 AM to 5 PM, Sun 11 AM to 3 PM

Trays of cooked stone crab claws on ice at our market, with the water through the window
Aripeka Stone Crab Co. badge, established 1985
Claws in the trays at the market, from our October 2025 video

The season

Stone crab season runs October 15 to May 1.

Claw guide

Four grades, same pound.

Claws are sold by the pound and graded by size. Bigger claws mean fewer to the pound and more meat for every crack.

5claws
to a pound

$25a pound, last season’s opening price

About 3.2 oz a claw. Florida grades large at 3 to 5 oz. Each shape is one claw, drawn to its weight.

How much for your table?

People
4
Serving

4 lb of large claws

About 20 claws, about $100 at last season’s opening price.

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A pound a person is the Florida Department of Agriculture’s guide for a main course. Prices are from our October 16, 2025 opening post; this season’s go up on opening day.

How Karri cracks themGrades and prices, side by side

The haul

From our traps to your table.

  1. Our boat pulling away from the dock, loaded with traps
    1

    The traps go in

    Early October the boat gets loaded and the traps come “off the hill and into the water.” Florida lets traps go in ten days before the season opens.

    Our post, Oct 5, 2025

  2. A live stone crab held up on the boat by a crewman in orange bibs
    2

    Claws only

    The season opens October 15. Only claws 2 7/8 inches or longer come aboard, and the crab goes back in the water. A claw can grow back to about 95 percent of its size over three molts.

    Florida Fish and Wildlife rules

  3. A basket of fresh stone crab claws being hosed down before cooking
    3

    So fresh they move

    The claws come in fresh enough that you’ll catch them moving before they’re cooked. Watch close.

    Our video, Oct 16, 2025

  4. Our cooking pot at a rolling boil
    4

    Cooked right off the boat

    They go straight into our pot at the market, then onto ice. Stone crab claws are sold cooked, so yours are ready to crack.

    Our video, Oct 23, 2025

  5. Cooked stone crab claws, orange with black tips, on ice
    5

    On ice by the bridge

    “From the water to your plate in less than 24 hours.” The claws go on ice in the case at our market, right on the water by the bridge.

    Our listing with Florida’s Adventure Coast

  6. Jars of Seminole Florida stone crab sauce and Seminole cocktail sauce
    6

    Your table

    Crack them cold with a household hammer, the way Karri does. We keep Seminole stone crab mustard sauce and cocktail sauce at the counter.

    Ready when you are

The counter

Stone crab has a season. The counter doesn’t.

Smoked fish and spreads we make here, Gulf fish, shellfish and a few things you won’t find at the grocery store. Here’s what’s been in the case lately.

Our display case: shrimp, lobster tails, stone crab claws, sauces and smoked fish
The case, October 2025
  • Smoked mullet

    Smoked mullet

    $10a pound

  • Bourbon brown sugar maple smoked salmon

    Bourbon brown sugar maple smoked salmon

    House smoked

    $28a pound

  • Candied jalapeño salmon spread

    Candied jalapeño salmon spread

    $15with Ritz crackers

  • Argentine red shrimp

    Argentine red shrimp

    $18a pound

  • North Atlantic sea scallops

    North Atlantic sea scallops

    $30a pound

  • Florida spiny lobster tails

    Florida spiny lobster tails

    6 to 8 oz each

    $38a pound

See the whole counter

Prices are from our Facebook posts, late August through September 11, 2026. They move with the catch, so text or call for today’s. We take SNAP/EBT.

Karri’s shrimp tip

“2 minutes per side grilling or sauteing no more than 2 minutes all together if you’re going to boil or steam.”

On our pink shrimp, from her answer to a Google review
  • Our boat tied up at the dock at sunset
    Sunset at the dock
  • The market by the bridge, flags out front
    The market
  • Freddy the heron on the dock in front of our boat
    Freddy, on duty
  • Stone crab claws on ice
    On ice
  • The creek behind the market, clouds in the water and the bridge beyond
    Our office view
  • Sunrise over the water from the wheel of the boat
    Early start
  • The #1 Provider at the dock beside the market
    The #1 Provider
  • A heron on the dock beside the boat on a clear morning
    Morning at the dock
  • Cups of our shrimp ceviche
    Shrimp ceviche
  • The market under the palms
    Sunset Vista Dr

Reviews

From our Google reviews.

Customers' own words, word for word, from our Google listing.

Google rating
4.9
Google reviews
570+
Recommend us on Facebook
100%of 233
On this water since
1985

Read on Google on September 23, 2026. Names shortened to first name and initial.

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Our story

Four decades on this water.

  1. 1985

    Ron Holliday sets his first traps

    Karri’s dad starts stone crabbing out of Aripeka. The company still carries his start date on every badge.

    Our boat at the dock, sunset

  2. Early 2000s

    Mermaid Karri

    Karri swims as a mermaid at Weeki Wachee Springs. Customers still call her Mermaid Karri, and she still signs off that way.

    Karri at the counter, January 2026

  3. Sept 2024

    Helene

    Hurricane Helene pushes about six feet of surge through the market. We lose the refrigerators, the coolers and the ice machine, reorder the next day, and open for the season.

    “You got to just keep on moving forward.”

    Karri, to Bay News 9, November 2024
    Still here, by the water

  4. Today

    Captain and mermaid

    Karri runs the market and Matt runs the boat, with the next generation growing up on the Gulf. Karri goes live on Facebook from the market, so you can see what’s in the case before you drive out.

    Freddy and the boat, January 2026
The whole story, and the film

The film

Aripeka in 38 seconds.

Made from our own photos and clips, with the words on screen as they’re spoken.

Opening frame of our film: our boat at the dock at sunset, titled Aripeka, Florida

Visit

Come see us by the bridge.

3080 Sunset Vista Dr
Spring Hill, FL 34607
In Aripeka, just before the bridge to Norfleet Bait & Tackle
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Monday10 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday10 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday10 AM to 5 PM
Thursday10 AM to 5 PM
Friday10 AM to 5 PM
Saturday10 AM to 5 PM
Sunday11 AM to 3 PM

Mon to Sat 10 AM to 5 PM, Sun 11 AM to 3 PM

  • Gravel lot right out front.
  • We’re Old Florida: the low roads in can flood on a big high tide. Check the tide before you drive out.
  • No public restroom, sorry. We’re on septic out here.
  • We take SNAP/EBT.
The market by the bridge, flags out front
Map, drive times and today’s tides

Reserve

Reserve by text.

Your name, your order and the day you’ll pick up. We text back to confirm.

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