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Skriven 2008-10-13 11:56:50 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE SACERDOTE
Ärende: RE: Lobster Prices
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Hey Dave!

-> S> I went fishing out of Gloucester yesterday (not too great, dogfish were
-> S> plentiful but not sporty nor very edible, I caught one 29-inch cod and a
-> S> 26-inch cusk) and when we got back to the dock in the afternoon, I 
noted
-> S> the dock price for lobster has fallen to 3.99/lb.
-> 
-> HN> Woot! How many did you take home?
-> 
-> None.  I know this might be hard for some of you to believe, but 
-> because we buy lobster on sale sort of regularly, I don't automatically
-> jump at a deal like that.
-> 
Ah the benefits of having it close by! I'm like that with 
dungie's...

-> HN> How well would the meat freeze?
-> 
-> Cooked and shucked, it freezes very well.  Canned lobster meat is
-> generally sold frozen, and we can always find frozen lobster meat at
-> the supermarket (for like $21 a pound, so guess what I always leave
-> in the freezer case? [g])
-> 
HMMmm, I think I would too...but at $3.99/lb I might
consider buying some cooking em and freezing the
meat for later goodness when prices are high.

-> HN> Is there a "sport" lobster fishery as well
-> HN> as the commercial one?
-> 
-> No, although in Maine there are lobstermen who allow tourists the
-> privelege of paying to work on a lobster boat.  Lobstering is 
-> strictly regulated, and there are few shoreline lobster grounds not
-> already licensed.  Lobstermen have territories, it isn't like sport
-> fishing.
->
We have both commercial and sport fisheries for crabs
oysters, clams, shrimp etc. Both are highly regulated.
So if you were a Mainer, had a boat and wanted a bug
you'd not be able to go get your own...but the commercial
ones can...hmmm I like it my way better (grin) at least
I have a choice if I wanna go after my own. 
 
-> HN> I'll bet that would be fun!
-> 
-> It's not.  It's hard and exhausting work and involves 55-gallon drums
-> of rotted fish spooned into traps with a ladle, setting and hauling 
-> heavy traps, pissed-off crustaceans which not only have the ability 
-> to crush the bones in your hands but are more than willing to do so,
-> wetness, cold, and pain.
->
None of those are turn off's to me, we used to use rotted
chicken guts (freeze em and put em in tin cans with holes
punched in them. Wetness and cold go with the ocean 
most places, so that's not a surprise either. 
 
-> You know what, though?  It would be grand and wonderful for some of
-> the obnoxious tourists to spend a day on a lobster boat so they'd
-> know what the fishermen go through.  Maybe then they'd quit bitching
-> about the price of the bugs they only eat half of.
->
LOL, that would not stop them one bit, whiners will 
always find a way to whine. 
 
went and had a look at your humpy video. You had 
a nice calm day for fishing too bad the dogs were all
that really were active. 
chat with you soon!
hap 
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