Have your fish showed up Jake?
I'm practicing the curmugeon-ness,venting my frustration for being kept out of the forge...
fish that i'm waiting for are late,and i've time to read a few posts,but no means of Doing anything about it...other than setting up as some kind of Ht-nazi
I won't tell you how often I eat them...
. Lol. I have several family members who are lobstermen and my gf's father owns a crab shop where they pick and sell (and package and mail) fresh crab meat. I'm spoiled... I actually prefer crab rolls to lobster rolls personally. I used to stern on a lobster boat. Almost 5 years on the water and I ate lobster so much then I'm still a little sick of it now! Hahaha.
) wild-stocks fishermen!
Speaking of farmed seafood... I've got a little story! When I first started living on the island(1996) I had to work my way up the ranks and build a reputation before anyone would hire me as a stern man. So I worked at a lobster buying station. The company I worked for also owned 2 large lobster pounds. For those that don't know it's basically a small cove that has a wall with a gate in it that cuts it off from the ocean to hold the lobsters in till the price goes up in the fall. One held 100,000 lbs of regular(1-1/4lb -2lb) and the other held 70,000lbs of select(big ones). Myself and another guy used to go out in a 22' outboard every other day and dump in salted, shriveled herring. 22 in one and 30 scale baskets worth in the other. 11 and 15 bushell respectively. Anyway they were all supposed to be banded but inevitably some would break. The losses were unimaginable... one pissed off 5lb lobster with its crusher claw free kills all day long. For months! Anyway while the tide washes some of the crap out a lot of the festering, putrid, rotten fish and decaying lobster carcasses remain settled on the bottom. Also they are pretty immobile and can't clean themselves off and they grow grass on the shells. And the ones that keep their bands on eat the others feelers (antennae) for a snack.Yes,Josh,cautiously,but i'd say they're beginning now.I'm moderately busy,hoping to become more so.
It's curious but i can echo what you say about lobsters-all runs of fish here are Way late,but very ample once they show up...
I'm totally happy for you guys there,right on!Hope you have a killer season.
Fmont,good for you,that is a healthy instinct speaking in you!
Please go out and support your local(and not so local
(And don't eat farmed fish,known today as the most toxic food on Earth!
...Were we still in 11th century he could consult the manuscript of that monk Theophilus and learn that the `way to HT that O1`is to use the urine of a red-haired boy,or even better of a pure white goat fed exclusively on nettles(i think...forget now..).......(whatever that may mean in terms of an electricity provider
...Were we still in 11th century he could consult the manuscript of that monk Theophilus and learn that the `way to HT that O1`is to use the urine of a red-haired boy,or even better of a pure white goat fed exclusively on nettles(i think...forget now..)."I just finished writing a letter to my electric company inquiring if they were vegan as well. I also requested confirmation that no lobsters were harmed while providing my electricity. I think that should about cover it. Thank you for the heads up! All kidding aside, you made some very solid points in there. Made me stop and think as well as made me laugh.Well,it's his own fault!
But he's out of luck,more than a thousand years have passed,and now we just HT according to recommendations of the manufacturer of that specific alloy...(how boring...
As far as penned lobsters go...(that's a graphic description,Josh,thanks,i never knew...)...
Long time ago,before their culture and knowledge were destroyed by missionaries the people i live among believed that one Never bring an animal into thew household,in any shape or form.
There`was a strict taboo,and injunction on pets,and any and all animal in the home or anywhere near.
Justification of it was that after the Fall(these people were falsely filed as "heathen" by ignorant missionaries whereas in actuality theirs was a monotheistic religion that shared many a peculiar detail with Christianity)we no longer speak the same language with the beasts and the birds,and not knowing right from wrong can do something to offend et c.
I take this in a poetic sense,but see a lot of confirmation of soundness of this logic.When fishing or hunting we fully expect the critter we harvest to be pretty near perfect in all respect.And with very rare exception it is,any fish or bird or animal,healthy vital and clean,every feather in place,bright-eyed/bushy tailed...
And just about every human-raised beastie...awful looking chickens,scarily demeaned cattle and pigs,if not outright physically awful in some way then genetically impaired,non-viable,helpless...
In UK where my sweetheart lives vegetarianism and veganism are on the steep rise,not from any dietary/nutritional standpoint,but from sheer distaste for how animals are `treated and how frankly Gross and depressing the results are...(she's gotten an e-mail from her electric company not long ago stating them to be the first utility in England to be fully vegan!