American Caviar is as Hot and as Hip as it gets right now!
Some of the USA’s hottest and hippest restaurants, young chefs are rediscovering a food once revered by their grandparents but largely ignored by today’s jet-set diners: It’s those salty little fish eggs, better known as caviar. The trend comes as international bans tighten […]
Mantis Shrimp
A species of shrimp has supersensitive eyes that can literally see “over the rainbow”, scientists discovered. The mantis shrimp from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia has an appreciation of color far superior to that of humans. Instead of three primary colors - red, green and blue - they recognize 11 or 12. The […]
Lobster Ropes
Some Cape Breton lobster fishermen are hoping to trap something besides lobsters - the culprits vandalizing their equipment. Delbert Heinekamp arrived at the wharf in Lingan, N.S., on Tuesday to find the mesh in 50 of his lobster traps had been cut. “I was pretty upset - ready to blow my cork.” The local […]
Blue Crab
Chesapeake Bay fishermen and seafood processors fear new limits on blue crab harvests will ruin their business. About 200 commercial crab fishermen were present in Cambridge on Wednesday evening for a hearing on the proposed regulations. Under the regulations, the harvest of female crabs would end Oct. 23, during prime time for harvesters. Companies […]
Workers on a Crab vessel
A fire that destroyed a crab vessel off Newfoundland’s northeast coast Wednesday night raced through the long liner in minutes, the skipper of the rescuing vessel says. Five crab fishermen were rescued from the Northern Provider late Wednesday after it caught fire about 20 nautical miles, or 36 kilometers, east of […]
Boat Flipped
One woman was dead and a man was in critical condition after a shrimp boat accident on Hood Canal Wednesday afternoon. Washington State Patrol Trooper Krista Hedstrom said the two were trapped under a shrimp boat when it flipped in high winds. The woman, 75, and man, 79, both were unconscious by the time […]
Scallops
The owner of a commercial fishing boat has been ordered to pay nearly $3,000 after it was spotted taking scallops from a marine reserve. Thirty-seven-year-old Takaka man Lee Francis Thompson was convicted of taking marine life for commercial purposes from a marine reserve in the Marlborough Sounds. A family reported his boat dredging scallops inside […]
Lobster Claws are really the way to go!
Maine—When it comes to lobster, Kathryn Rolston is all about tails. She finds it easier to wrestle from the shell than claw meat, and more substantial. more stories like this. But for Gene Beaudoin, her lunch companion, it’s the claws that make the meal. He says any extra […]
Everyone Feels the Pinch of High Gas Prices
For the 45th year, thousands of visitors are coming to town this weekend to partake in the Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival. But amidst the celebration, shrimpers in the birthplace of the shrimping industry aren’t as sanguine. Skyrocketing diesel prices and continued competition from foreign shrimp are […]
Rock Lobster
The New South Wales Government has seized more than 900 rock lobsters that were caught illegally off the state’s mid-north coast. A commercial fishermen is due to appear in court today to face allegations he took almost a ton of lobsters from waters near Port Macquarie. The haul was valued at more than $60,000. […]