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© All rights reserved. Crab, mussels, lobster, shrimp, scallops with bok choy, tomatoes, green onions and celery, spices, bullion and rice wine. New Year's Eve dish.
This is a photo taken with my mobile phone of the shellfish starter that we ate today in a restaurant in Baiona........full size crabs and a small octopus as well as fresh prawns and small scallops!
Yummy!
On Henderson Inlet in Thurston County, the community shellfish farm is part of the Meyer’s Point property owned by WSU Extension. Puget Sound Restoration Fund manages the community shellfish farm in association with Pacific Coast Shellfish Growers Association and many other partners. They have been operating the farm for about six years.
Goals:
•Actively engage citizens in experiencing, preserving and restoring productive shellfish growing areas in Henderson Inlet.
•Increase community support for pollution control programs through educational field tours and hands-on involvement in small-scale aquaculture.
Project Activities:
•Conduct 10 tideflat tours each year to educate 300-500 students, parents, and teachers in shellfish aquaculture and water quality (in partnership with South Sound Green, Pacific Shellfish Institute and others).
•Harvest over 150 dozen oysters for public events, including SLURP and Oyster New Year at Elliott’s Oyster House.
•Install 20 shellfish gardens on private tidelands to invest local property owners in the value of clean water (bringing the total to 50 gardens installed since 2004).
•Involve 50-100 volunteers in thinning and harvesting oysters, preparing shellfish garden kits, organizing aquaculture gear and serving community-grown shellfish at local events.
•Sponsor annual oyster giveaways for residents within the Henderson watershed who take action to manage their septic systems as part of Thurston County’s new septic system O&M program (residents receive one dozen oysters with proof of inspection).
•Provide support for farm volunteers actively involved in preventing additional bacterial pollution in Henderson Inlet.
March Puget Sound Shellfish Growers Assn Beach Clean-up. 125 volunteers on 25 boats picked up 8.5 dump trucks of trash from 160 miles of beach.
Clams harvested by Swinomish tribal members are dyed blue so buyers will know they are meant for use as bait, not to eat. The clams were harvested near a sewage outfall on Whidbey Island during the tribe's first bait fishery.
Recipe can be found at www.sonic.net/~rocky/abrecipesbreaded.htm . Made with abalone purchased frozen from Chile at Baltimore County's H Mart on Rolling Road
Scientists recently performed three more experiments on local freshwater mussels. The purpose was to measure how much pollutants are removed as these animals filter water clean while they eat. This will help tell planners how investments in mussel restoration lead to cleaner water. Imagine if we could decrease our need for water treatment simply by investing in shellfish, many of which can live up to a century. Visit DelawareEstuary.org/freshwater-mussels to learn more.
Credit: Dr. Danielle Kreeger of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary
A creation at La Murena, Pescara. It's a great restaurant, always good. Don't worry about the chipped plate. It's La Murena's version of fish and chips.
A fantastic stew from Northern France (Normandie) based on cidre and served with shellfish and fish... Magnifique!!!
FR traditional. According to Cordon Bleu Paris recipe
+1 point for foodicted.com/gourmet-hunter-game/
+1 bonus (presentation)
Snow crab, lobster, east & west coast oysters, clams, mussels, cerviche, prawns, potato chips. At PrimehouseNYC! Nom!
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