Bangkok, Thiland, Thai marine scientists on Tuesday said they had failed to discover the cause of death for thousands of red frog crabs over the weekend on Phuket Island, one of Thailand’s most popular beach resorts. Thousands of the small crabs, whose scientific name is Ranina ranina, crawls up on Sai Kaew beach in Phuket, […]
He will soft-boil an egg, delicately remove the shell, extract the yolk with a syringe, use that to make hollandaise sauce, and then inject the hollandaise back into the egg with the syringe. It’s an ambitious project for an eighth grader, but at 14, Nick Normile is thoroughly infatuated with food. In school, he researched […]
Yngve Ekern
Aftenposten’s food writer Yngve Ekern has been charged with animal cruelty by animal rights group NOAH after an article about cooking crabs. The case against Ekern has been dismissed and instead referred to the Conciliation Board, reports trade newspaper Journalisten on its web site, but there will be repercussions. Ekern angered animal activists with […]
Baby blue King Crab Larva
Researchers aiming to ultimately rebuild lucrative commercial crab stocks say the project has now produced 1.75 million blue king crab larvae, joining nearly 1 million now-juvenile red king crab. “As larvae, they are about the same size as the reds were at that age, about the size of the head of […]
Isn’t this little crab cute?
Two blue lobsters caught by local fishermen are on display at grocery stores in Barrington Passage. Unusual? Yes, but not as rare as you might think in this area. Finding a blue lobster is a one in two million occurrence. Each year, approximately 31 million lobsters are landed in Lobster Fishing Area 34. Theoretically as […]
Image of the dead sei whale being necropsied
A whale was spotted off Lobster Cove at Smith Point on Friday afternoon, but as of last night was still caught on some rocks and had not washed ashore, authorities said. The whale has been dead since at least Wednesday. Police said yesterday it was seen about 30 […]
Nearly 1,000 shrimp workers have gone on strike to protest a wage cut at a Singaporean shrimp processing factory in Vietnam. According to wire agency AFP, the workers at Amanda Foods are protesting against the company’s decision to cut salaries to S$37.50 (600,000 dong) a month. Manual laborers in Vietnam typically earn around S$50 a […]
Tampa Florida- The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a woman found on a shrimp boat in the docks near Causeway Boulevard. The woman’s body was found around 12:30 this afternoon. Deputies say a crew member showed up at the 68-foot shrimp boat this afternoon to put some personal belongings on it, […]