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Skriven 2014-11-06 23:06:00 av Bruce
     Kommentar till en text av Ophelia@Elsinore.invalid
Ärende: Re: Found a Usenet Kook
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On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 11:46:31 -0000, "Ophelia"
<Ophelia@Elsinore.invalid> wrote:

>
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>"Bruce" <Bruce@Bruce.invalid> wrote in message
>news:3ekm5a5vnlk6pjh3ecgi8hk1hkj802t8e2@4ax.com...
>> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 10:38:55 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> <Ophelia@Elsinore.invalid> wrote:
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>>>
>>>"dsi1" <dsi100@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>news:9e31c9bd-0cba-477c-ad04-b8934e73c3b2@googlegroups.com...
>>>> On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:49:22 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
>>>>> news:46b650c5-259f-4837-8c4f-eab555faef7e@googlegroups.com...
>>>>> > On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 10:33:04 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>> >> "dsi1" wrote in message
>>>>> >> news:0e7e1909-2b6d-4023-8bb0-2a67333e5fef@googlegroups.com...
>>>>> >> > On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 2:46:55 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
>>>>> >> >> On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 00:03:24 -0800 (PST), dsi1 <>
>>>>> >> >> wrote:
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> > On Tuesday, November 4, 2014 8:37:47 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
>>>>> >> >> > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 09:50:06 -0800 (PST), dsi1
>>>>> >> >> > > wrote:
>>>>> >> >> > >
>>>>> >> >> > > > The beaches in the bay area was nothing like I expected.
>>>>> >> >> > > > They
>>>>> >> >> > > > were
>>>>> >> >> > > > all rocky and the waters were dark and cold. What a shock!
>>>>> >> >> > > >
>>>>> >> >> > >
>>>>> >> >> > > Yes and bring your down jacket when you go to the beach!
>>>>> >> >> > >
>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>> >> >> > Don't forget to bring a long rope to tie around your foot to
>>>>> >> >> > make
>>>>> >> >> > retrieving your body easy when you black out from those deep
>>>>> >> >> > dives
>>>>> >> >> > for
>>>>> >> >> > abalone.
>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>> >> >> Well, that too.  Abalone is over fished (poachers), so abalone is
>>>>> >> >> farmed now, but it's still "market price" and very rare.
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > Cutting up a live abalone is a pretty unpleasant task. I've done
>>>>> >> > one
>>>>> >> > or
>>>>> >> > two. That's the end of my abalone cutting career.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Why? Does it look at you?  I don't actually know what abalone is.
>>>>> >> Is
>>>>> >> it
>>>>> >> something alive?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ripping a live abalone out of it's home and cutting out it's guts and
>>>>> > then
>>>>> > slicing the outer layers of it's skin off is kinda gross. I guess the
>>>>> > problem is that I should have waited until the thing was dead. Heck I
>>>>> > don't even care much for abalone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh:(
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > When I was a kid, candy stores used to sell dried abalone. You'd get
>>>>> > this
>>>>> > hard lump of abalone that was a little bigger than a golf ball. Kids
>>>>> > would
>>>>> > carry the stuff in their pockets. To eat it, you'd pull out your
>>>>> > pocket
>>>>> > knife and cut off slivers. It wasn't very good but it was very handy.
>>>>>
>>>>> It sounds very alien to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok just googled it.  A sea snail???
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, they are gastropods. Some of them are pretty big. The important
>>>> part
>>>> about abalone is that their shell yeilds a beautiful, iridescent,
>>>> multi-colored, material that is suitable for inlay work. Certain guitar
>>>> companies will use abalone inlay in their most high end product. It's
>>>> good
>>>> stuff.
>>>
>>>Ok:)
>>
>> Abalone is also fished out of Tasmanian waters a lot. Not that
>> Tasmanians get to see much of it. It's shipped to Sydney or Japan to
>> be sold at prices that most Tasmanians can't afford.
>
>Are they officially allowed to do it?

To "export" it? Yes.

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Bruce

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