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Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada is home to the World's Largest Lobster. Built in 1990, the lobster is 35ft long, 16.4ft wide and 16ft tall. It weighs in at 50 tons (of steel and concrete...not meat...sadly).
Recolectando mariscos entre los roqueríos y las gélidas aguas del Pacífico Sur.
Collecting shellfish among the rocks and the cold waters of the South Pacific.
Chum salmon at the end of their long amazing journey from sea to their ancestral gravel in the same creek they were born in. They deposit egs and sperm in a redd or nest they have cleared gravel from and then they die, all energy expended.
Oyster Creek, Samish Bay, Wash
Photo intern Stephanie Chavez came to Virginia Sea Grant with a different interest than others: food and product photography. So we asked Stephanie to use her skills and set up a photo shoot with the divas of Virginia shellfish: oysters and clams. Here's what she came up with.
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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.