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Foto de producto de Erizo de mar Gallego para el website de venta de Marisco Gallego Online Sal y Laurel salylaurel.es/erizo-de-mar FotografÃas realizadas por Aitor Uribarri
SSMO Shetland inshore brown & velvet crab and scallop fishery
© Shetland Shellfish Management Organisation
When I was around 10 years old and on holidays my dad took us fishing the incoming tide of Port Parham. Our daily ritual involved hunting for bait at low tide, digging for worms, muscles and cockles.
Cockle were always our prize and were the bait of choice needed to target the whiting that would hopefully grace the evening’s table.
Funny how I never thought of cockles as food for people until so much later in my life. I was in my mid twenties when I first noticed cockles on a menu and have never looked back.
So glad I’ve added cockles to my idea of C food.
A little crayfish that my brothers and I caught while camping in Kenora, Ontario. Don't worry, we didn't eat him... Though we were tempted to. ;)
October 22, 2017
Shellfishermen and women worked the early morning low tide in Brewster today. Shellfishing license holders in the town of Brewster benefit from the town's "put and take" oyster program, which is open on occasional days during the late Fall months.
Brewster, Massachusetts
Cape Cod - USA
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Foto de producto de Camarón Gallego para el website de venta de Marisco Gallego Online Sal y Laurel salylaurel.es/camarones FotografÃas realizadas por Aitor Uribarri
Dinner at Temple Street Night Market.
Trudi made tonights choice and then showed me the live ones dying slowly on the display table later.
They were like prawns but with harder shells and with some very pointy bits. The reward for shelling effort was limited but they did taste nice.
CA SEA OTTERS: MONTEREY BAY
•Food & Foraging:
An otter must consume approximately 25% of its bodyweight in prey each day just to stay alive!
•A 75-pound otter can eat up to 1,500 sea urchins a day, or about 25 pounds of seafood (for a 75 pound kid, that would amount to eating 75 quarter pound hamburgers every day!).
•To meet its high energetic and thermoregulation demands, a sea otter’s metabolic rate is 2 to 3 times that of comparatively sized mammals.
•Sea otters consume a wide variety of benthic invertebrates. Prey items include sea urchins, abalone, crabs, mussels, clams, marine snails, marine worms, sea stars, and squid. In total, otters eat at least 50 species of benthic (bottom-dwelling) invertebrates, although individuals tend to specialize on only a few main prey types. Prey specialization and feeding preferences are passed on from mother to pup.
•The strong forelegs paws are used to locate and capture prey.
•Pockets of loose skin under each foreleg are used to store prey it has gathered on the seafloor for the ascent to the surface.
•Rocks are often used as tools to dislodge prey on the sea floor and to break open the hard outer shells of some prey items upon returning to the surface. Floating belly-up in the water, they place rocks on their chests and repeatedly pound hard-shelled prey against them to gain access the meat inside.
•While eating, an otter will roll repeatedly in the water to wash away food scraps from its chest.
•Unlike most other marine mammals, sea otters commonly drink seawater. Although most of the animal’s water needs are met through the consumption of prey, its large kidneys allow it to extract fresh water from seawater. Source: www.seaotters.com
The "Billy Thomas" landing at Porthgain harbour, North Pembrokeshire. Original photograph courtesy Nick, Roger and Louise Clarke of www.porthgainshellfish.com/. Monochrome rendition by me!
I like this one because it looks like the dinner was escaping from prison but was caught in a search light.
September 28, 2015
This is one of a gazillian little black fingered mud crabs we found while clamming on the Brewster Flats yesterday. I love their russet colored fingertips!
Brewster, Massachusetts - Cape Cod
USA
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Shellfish is one of Goro's favorite sushi delights. On the shell and at the bottom of the plate, you have the muscle - quite chewy. To the right you have the liver & intestines. Very rich. Not Kim's favorite thing.
Other unusual things that we ate that night: squid tentacles (Cris), salmon eggs (Cris), sweet shrimp, friend shrimp heads.