How do you tell if a salmon is fit and well? This is a question, which has troubled salmon farmers and biologists for years, but now scientists may have come up with the answer - using DNA chips. By studying the genes of Atlantic salmon, scientists are developing a DNA chip to monitor the health […]
Would you pay $2,000 for a pair of crabs? The Restaurant Association of Singapore Academy is hoping that someone will. They are putting up the ‘king’ and ‘queen’ hairy crabs up for auction to be held at Tung Lok Seafood Gallery at East Coast this afternoon, as part of the restaurant’s Jiangsu Hairy Crab promotion. […]
Fewer sea lion pups will be trapped and drowned in rock lobster pots following a new West Australian Government initiative.State Fisheries have announced sea lion exclusion devices (SLEDs) would be mandatory for commercial and recreational pots during the rock lobster season. Sea lion pups are tempted into the pots to eat the trapped lobsters, became […]
Eric Tweedie caught more than he bargained for when he pulled up a baby blue lobster on October 10th. This rare lobster appeared to be a blue lobster, but with strong albino traits. Since her capture, she has darkened her shell slightly, but still remains an odd shade of blue.
Chart of Halibut
Halibut Fishermen
Halibut are among the largest fish in the sea and the largest of all the flatfish. They can grow to more than 8 ft long and 700 lbs. Halibut weighing in at more than 100 pounds are often called “Whales”, “Soakers”, or even “Barn Doors”, while smaller halibut, less than 20 pounds, […]
Bright Orange Pistol Shrimp
A noisy Mediterranean shrimp found in England is the first seen in British waters for 87 years. The pistol shrimp was caught by fisherman Timmy Bailey in Falmouth Bay and is now in a quarantine tank at the Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay. The bright orange creature is named after the loud […]
The Lobster “peeling” Machine. The Process it’s self is called “Redux”
Richmond, VA. A business known as Shucks Maine Lobster showed how it packages complete Maine lobsters, all meat without the shells. About 200 pounds of live Maine lobsters are put in a big cylindrical cage and dropped into a machine that creates intense water pressure, […]
Beware “langostino lobster“! it’s an impostor to the real thing! Now, the Food and Drug Administration has been asked to yank approval for restaurants to market the product as lobster on their menus.
“Langostino is not lobster, nor should it be marketed as such,” Snowe wrote to FDA Commissioner Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach. Langostino is […]
Anti-Privatization Protest Elsewhere in the World
A controversial new study, disputed by crab industry officials, says privatization of the commercial crab fishery in Alaska resulted in the loss of 1,150 jobs and millions of crab wasted. The report from Food and Water Watch, a Washington, D.C.-based consumer rights group, criticizes the so-called crab rationalization program as […]
Some 12,000 people are expected to fish for crab, learn how to cook crab and just plain eat crab at the fifth annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival this weekend. Crab won’t be all there is to eat. Organizers promise fresh wild salmon, oysters and other seafood. But the focus of the festival is the […]