Native Americans Let Their Voices Be Heard
Indians will have a much greater role in deciding how and where the state and other governments build culverts that impede salmon migration, following a federal court ruling Wednesday siding with the Tulalips and many other Washington tribes. In their federal lawsuit, the tribes said that state and local […]
Indians Protest Walmart
Associations in the Thai shrimp industry should join with government agencies to take action against the misleading information, Bunjonk Nissapawanich, president of the Thai Eastern Shrimp Farmers’ Association, said yesterday. The bodies concerned are Thai Eastern Shrimp Association, Thai Aquaculture Association, Chanthaburi Shrimp Farmers’ Club, Surat Thani Shrimp Farmers’ Club, Krabi Shrimp Farmers’ […]
Under Sized Crab
Kowloon City Magistracy has fined seven seafood stall owners $680 to $3,000 for supplying crab of short weight. Customs officers posed as customers and purchased the crab at various marketplaces in Wan Chai, Sha Tin, Kowloon City, Hung Hum and Wong Tai Sin between December and May. The officers then checked the purchased […]
Not quite a hospital
When the cook on his shrimp boat went into labor 30 miles offshore, captain Ed Keisel grabbed a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook and did the best he could. He successfully delivered Cindy Preisel’s baby boy, even though the baby’s feet emerged first. “I’m no doctor, but […]
A tractor-trailer filled with 32,000 pounds of salmon overturned Sunday morning on the Broad Street ramp off of Route 3 East, shutting down traffic on the ramp for more than six hours. About 7:40 a.m., a truck owned by Cosmic Transportation Group of Ontario, Canada, was exiting Route 3 when it rolled over on the […]
Frozen Shrimp
An Asheville man was arrested in an armed robbery of the meat manager at Ingles grocery store. Raymond Eugene Howell, 57, of Asheville, was charged with having stolen several bags of shrimp from the store and pulling a pocketknife on the store’s meat manager, who confronted him. Howell fled the store with the shrimp […]
Puffer Fish A doctor says unscrupulous vendors have been selling meat from the highly poisonous puffer fish disguised as salmon. That’s resulted in the deaths of more than 15 people over the past three years. Some 115 people have been hospitalized. Although it was banned in Thailand five years ago, puffer fish continues to be […]
Deformed Albino Lobster Claw
Thousands of lobsters go in and out of Captain Joe & Sons on a weekly basis. Last week two unusual crustaceans were among the catch at the wholesale lobster company off East Main Street. An albino lobster, which co-owner Frank Ciaramitaro calls a “ghost lobster,” and a three-clawed lobster caught the attention […]
You are looking into the alien eyes of a peacock mantis shrimp. This is a classic example of an animal whose only redeeming quality, as far as appearances go, are its colors. Despite the beautiful colors, there’s no escaping the fact that if you encountered a large one in a dark alley, you would assume […]