How Lobster goes from the sea to your plate
 

I'm glad I don't eat creatures with exoskeletons.:up:

I have no such prejudices.:O:

Around here, Prince Edward Island, you can get them directly from the fishermen for the same price that they are paid for them. It's unbelievable how the price goes up as they change hands. It was not a good spring season for the lobster fishermen this year. Big catch, low price, some had a hard time even finding buyers for their catch. Many will head to the Alberta oil patch to make boat payments. Again.

Middle men and futures speculators will always drive up the price of a commodity.:-? Especially if there are those who will pay the inflated prices.
Yet another reason I don't consume such critters.:D

That is just wrong.
How can you enjoy life to the full without a regular feast of scallops?

You mean you don't eat prawns?:o

Nope. I do eat vegetables, even though shucking the wheel chairs can be a pain.:03::haha:

:har::har::har:

Can't interest you in some crabs then?

Crabs and Lobsters eat anything they can catch or find on the bottom of the ocean or bay or inlets they habitat in. I don't know what shrimp eat, but they crawl around on the bottom killing little minnows I guess with all of the clicking they do.

Bottom feeders don't lead you to live a healthy life style even though drenched in butter or horseradish/ketchup sauce or even horseradish/mayo and pickle relish sauce doesn't make the bottom feeder more healthy for your tummy ... just more appetizing.

On a side note: Red Lobster has gone broke and another investment group has taken them over.

Seafood is on the decline in the USA :yep:

Not to mention all the mercury. Make you mad as a hatter it will.:doh:

We used to keep a few lobsters back each week (particularly in summer) and keep them in boxes in the sea (on moorings) so that we'd have plenty to sell come the week before Christmas, when the off-the-boat price was very high indeed. You could get caught out if you couldn't get to the mooring because of a force 9 (the buyers usually came only once a week).
It was always tough because the funds were tight in the summer - but we could usually catch our bait rather than buy it at that time of year (plus you could always eat the bait, if it was fresh).

From the Hebrides, lobsters tend to go to Spain and the med, along with velvet crab (which are a handy by-catch, previously discarded) and the green shore-crabs, which also used to be a by-catch, prawns (langoustine) and crayfish.

We used to hand-haul backs of a dozen creels, set at 20 fathoms, with 20 fathoms between them - we couldn't afford a hydraulic hauler. We would always put large (and therefore tasteless) and female lobsters back, to preserve the stocks.

Times are hard, though - the last time I was back at Otternis, there wasn't a single boat on a mooring, not one. And on Berneray na Hearadh, I saw fewer boats in the harbour last year.

I think I'll take a few creels onto U51 and drop them as we pass North Uist.

You should probably see the doctor for that!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqe9JNjAPg

Or get some kerosene.:O:

If you want to minimise the mercury eat the bottom feeders, its the pelagic fish that have high levels.
So tuck in to the mullet, flounder, oysters and lobster, but avoid the tuna and don't eat the dolphins.:D