The fire department had to jack up a tractor-trailer loaded with lobster yesterday afternoon after it became stuck as it entered Sandwich Road from a steep incline, a fire official said. The call for help came in at 1:30 p.m. from a business on Sandwich Road just under the Sagamore Bridge, according to Bourne fire […]
Boston Police report arresting some guy at the Freeport Street Stop & Shop last night on charges he tried to leave the store without paying for the 10 bags of frozen shrimp in his cart (shrimp-nappers seem to get netted pretty easily in this town; cops must have their antennae up for them).
Chow Hall
Iraq: $2.4 million per month for lobster tails. This chart from the Wall Street Journal shows that, with $2.4 million being spent monthly on lobster tails, Bush’s War on Terror may be America’s most delicious military conflict ever. Prominent American food companies are under scrutiny in a federal probe of possible fraud and corruption […]
Huge Salmon…but not large enough to confuse it with Nessie
In the normally level-headed world of angling, reports of giant salmon and the toppling of a record set by Georgina Ballantine, a Scotswoman, in 1922 are rarely greeted with anything other than skepticism and outright derision. But an internet chat room that claimed a salmon weighing […]
…ok this Lobster is creepy!
A fisherman from Essex has netted a huge lobster measuring 3ft (0.9m) long. The haul was made by 54-year-old John Elbra as he fished in the River Crouch, at Barling near Southend. He described his catch as blooming big. The crustacean is being kept at the Sealife Adventure in Southend and […]
Indoor Shrimp Farm
The long, hot, dry summer took it’s toll on a lot of Kentucky’s crops. Except one. While others suffered in drought like conditions, shrimp were thriving. Freshwater shrimp farmers have found an alternative to tobacco and a future with a lot of growth potential. One shrimp farmer took his catch of the day […]
For a Lobster to meet required catch size, the body part noted here must be 3 inches long
A lobster pound owner was fined $8,000 earlier this month for having nearly 100 undersized lobster. Daniel Barry Shatford, owner of Shatford’s Lobster Pound, changed his plea to guilty as his trial was set to get underway in […]
Paddlefish
The majestic but under venerated Ohio River reaches the widest point (about a mile) in its 981-mile saunter from Pittsburgh to the Big Muddy just west of this city’s bravely reviving downtown. Louisville, although it is the nation’s 17th-largest city and home of the eponymous Slugger, is rarely associated with caviar. But the ornate hotel […]
Riot
A New Brunswick man accused in the Shippagan, N.B., crab riots will stand trial on charges including obstructing police and participating in a riot. A Bathurst judge decided Thursday there is enough evidence to send Valois Goupil to trial, but not to move forward on previous charges of criminal arson. Goupil, a crab boat captain, […]
Warehouse Skids Holding Cases of Lobster Tails
Several hundred thousand dollars worth of lobster tails were stolen from a warehouse in Medley last week. The initial owner of the lobster tails is going on the offensive and offering a big reward. There are many seafood warehouses in South Florida because it’s a gateway to Latin and […]