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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.
Hot smoked Mackerel (vacuum packed, ready to eat)
Cold smoked herring/kipper (dressed-tail, head, side trimmed, coloured, no label)
Cold smoked Salmon (salted, ready to eat, modified packaging)
No particular significance, i was just trying to think up interesting shapes with shells for use in tryptichs etc :-)
A huge and delicious clam in a butter. Topped off with a squirt of fish sauce and lime and it was close to perfect.
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.
Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) floating in the Salinas river estuary of Monterey Bay, California. She was totally engaged in collecting and eating shellfish. In this image she has just cracked the shell with her teeth and has the shell fragment in her mouth.
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
Lookit! A crayfish! :D
It lives in my parent's small pond. My dad put it on the stone for me to photograph while they were changing the pond thingy (so the fishies have a bit more room). It just sat there and pointed its feeler thingers in my direction now and then.
Amazing. Though pretty much anything cooked in garlic, butter, onions, and white wine is going to be amazing.
Seed clams were planted in cages in the spring. Now in the fall they are removed and placed in larger lanes where they will grew for a couple of years. Then they can be harvests. Lanes are covered by nets to protect the clams.