Alaska cancels Snow Crab season

[Captante]

This really sucks.

Red king crab is my absolute favorite seafood. (and maybe my favorite food period)

 

[BoomerD]

Meh...in the mid-70's, just before I started my apprenticeship, I worked as a driver-salesman for a wholesale fish company. Being low man, I had the privilege of preparing crab for the local hotel crab feeds. I'd take a couple hundred lbs of frozen crab (usually snow crab, but king crab and dungeness as well) out of the freezer, thaw it in a tub of water, then stand at a stainless steel table with a rubber mallet, cracking the crab.
I'd smash some, eat some, smash some, eat some more...by the time the summer was over, I was sick of crab...and still don't like it.

 

[Captante]

Meh...in the mid-70's, just before I started my apprenticeship, I worked as a driver-salesman for a wholesale fish company. Being low man, I had the privilege of preparing crab for the local hotel crab feeds. I'd take a couple hundred lbs of frozen crab (usually snow crab, but king crab and dungeness as well) out of the freezer, thaw it in a tub of water, then stand at a stainless steel table with a rubber mallet, cracking the crab.
I'd smash some, eat some, smash some, eat some more...by the time the summer was over, I was sick of crab...and still don't like it.

Proof it's completely possible to overdo anything for $500 Alex?

Actually I had a similar experience with raw oysters and clams after volunteering to shuck at a festival .... couldn't even look at them for several years!


EDIT: I love them again now though thank goodness.

 

[GoPackGo]

I heard they have moved north due to warmer waters and that the water north is too rough to fish.

 

[BoomerD]

I heard they have moved north due to warmer waters and that the water north is too rough to fish.

That's certainly possible...but they're saying a BILLION crabs are "missing" from the fishery.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

That's certainly possible...but they're saying a BILLION crabs are "missing" from the fishery.

I suspect 'missing' in this context means 'they fucked off and we aren't really sure where they went, but probably north/deep'.

 

[BoomerD]

I suspect 'missing' in this context means 'they fucked off and we aren't really sure where they went, but probably north/deep'.

probably

 

[Zorba]

Meh...in the mid-70's, just before I started my apprenticeship, I worked as a driver-salesman for a wholesale fish company. Being low man, I had the privilege of preparing crab for the local hotel crab feeds. I'd take a couple hundred lbs of frozen crab (usually snow crab, but king crab and dungeness as well) out of the freezer, thaw it in a tub of water, then stand at a stainless steel table with a rubber mallet, cracking the crab.
I'd smash some, eat some, smash some, eat some more...by the time the summer was over, I was sick of crab...and still don't like it.

I love crab, but it's always been an in moderation thing for me. Generally anything more than one set of legs or a few legs of king and I've had enough.

 

[MrSquished]

And the majority of blue collar workers that depend on these industries will keep voting like idiots for Republicans.

Fucking morons. And they are taking our country down with them.

 

[hal2kilo]

I suspect 'missing' in this context means 'they fucked off and we aren't really sure where they went, but probably north/deep'.

It's been ridiculously warn here in the PNW. I wouldn't be surprise if yet again, the waters are too warm due to...wait for it...global warming. Salmon are going to be extinct the way things are going. Oh, and due to the increase acidity in the water, shellfish are going to go to shit also.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

It's been ridiculously warn here in the PNW. I wouldn't be surprise if yet again, the waters are too warm due to...wait for it...global warming. Salmon are going to be extinct the way things are going. Oh, and due to the increase acidity in the water, shellfish are going to go to shit also.

Don't forget the plankton. When they eat shit, the rest of the ocean ecosystem is gonna go with them.

 

[BoomerD]

It's been ridiculously warn here in the PNW. I wouldn't be surprise if yet again, the waters are too warm due to...wait for it...global warming. Salmon are going to be extinct the way things are going. Oh, and due to the increase acidity in the water, shellfish are going to go to shit also.

I think it hit 65 here today...but there MIGHT be some rain finally this coming weekend.

 

[Linux23]

That's certainly possible...but they're saying a BILLION crabs are "missing" from the fishery.

Hey I was hungry dammit.

 

[cytg111]

That's certainly possible...but they're saying a BILLION crabs are "missing" from the fishery.

One? I thought there was 8 a couple of years back, last year 1 and now gone... its not like it's not been coming.

 

[BoomerD]

One? I thought there was 8 a couple of years back, last year 1 and now gone... its not like it's not been coming.

The news stories have changed from "One billion crabs missing" to "as many as eight billion crabs missing."

But...have no fear...mother nature abhors a vacuum...

Metlakatla is now catching dozens of invasive green crabs each day

As they trap more and more green crabs, Metlakatla is still trying to figure out how to handle the arrival of a species known to destroy fish habitat eat other shellfish.

www.ktoo.org

 

[cytg111]

Proof it's completely possible to overdo anything for $500 Alex?

Actually I had a similar experience with raw oysters and clams after volunteering to shuck at a festival .... couldn't even look at them for several years!


EDIT: I love them again now though thank goodness.

I will NEVER touch oysters again… so sick… both ends….

 

[Captante]

I will NEVER touch oysters again… so sick… both ends….

Yeah .... once you get really sick on a type of food it's really tough to ever "like" it again!

Fortunately at least so far I've yet to catch anything of significance eating raw seafood of any kind. (beyond a mild case of the hershey-squirts)

 

[BoomerD]

Yeah .... once you get really sick on a type of food it's really tough to ever "like" it again!

Fortunately at least so far I've yet to catch anything of significance eating raw seafood of any kind. (beyond a mild case of the hershey-squirts)

2 fifths of Bourbon Supreme neatly killed me...I was 15. I was sick for almost a week. Just the smell of bourbon anything (or Jack Daniels) makes me want to hurl.

 

[hal2kilo]

2 fifths of Bourbon Supreme neatly killed me...I was 15. I was sick for almost a week. Just the smell of bourbon anything (or Jack Daniels) makes me want to hurl.

Rum and Coke at .25 a cent shot night at Mad Hatters in Atlanta. Can't touch the stuff. Not that I touch any of the shit anymore. 2 day hangover.

 

[brycejones]

I thought for sure @FelixDeCat was going to come back and post many examples of GOP initiatives to combat climate change.

 

[FelixDeCat]

I thought for sure @FelixDeCat was going to come back and post many examples of GOP initiatives to combat climate change.

We care about clean air and clean water, we just don't try to socialize the economy to do it.

Now where's my crabby patties?

 

[brycejones]

We care about clean air and clean water, we just don't try to socialize the economy to do it.

Now where's my crabby patties?

You haven’t earned them because you have yet to provide any evidence.

 

[SMOGZINN]

We care about clean air and clean water, we just don't try to socialize the economy to do it.

The economy is what pollutes the air and water. You can't have both. Either we have clean air and water, or we have unfettered capitalism. Pick one.

 

[Roger Wilco]

We care about clean air and clean water, we just don't try to socialize the economy to do it.

Now where's my crabby patties?

And how do you and your kin plan to do it?

 

[cytg111]

Duh thoughts and prayers of course, works every time.