A plate of four 7-ounce stone crab claws at a restaurant can cost you $140. They're partly pricey due to how they're caught, which is can be exhaustive and sometimes dangerous. Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Stone crab claws are one of the priciest seafoods you can buy. And depending on their size, a pound of claws at a restaurant can cost as much as $70. But catching these crabs is hard work. Strangely enough, fishers can only harvest the claws from the crabs, while the bodies must be returned to the ocean. So, what makes these claws so coveted? And why are they so expensive?