I just came back from eating all the Alaskian King Crab
you can eat, $8.00.I had 2 plates stacks 8 Inches high.
I get the stuff all over the place,I use a bip sometimes.
Sir,we are closing,do you need more food before we close.
My favorite"WORDS"...Look up Alaskian crab on wikipedia,
they are 10 times the size of blue crabs.

 

I had Alaskan King Crabs when a crab fishing boat pulled into Attu Island Alaska ... by the Coast Guard Loran Station. You know there was some tradin' happening there ... beer for fresh king crab.

 

Tell the guys about the size and how good they are,give us the story.
Maybe there are more comments about size.

 

I eat a lobster about once a year, as a treat to self. I've always felt sorry for the ones in the aquarium though.

 

I will tell you a 40 lb halibut will feed alot of people as it yields about 38 lbs of meat. We caught a small halibut out in front of the station. I'm sure others have been caught since that time and the crew feasted on beer battered halibut.

There was plenty of salmon and dolly varden trout caught also. I can tell you the first time I smoked salmon, I mixed the one gallon of river water with salt till you float an egg. Not a good idea as when I put the smoked samon on the bar we had to call the bar manager within a half-hour. The bar manager was called to the bar to break out more beer as all the beer was gone. I've since perfected the brine to my liking.

The crab legs were longer than your arms.

Thanks to Google Earth, I can revisit those fishing spots and have a wonderful memory.

One young Petty Officer that was TAD (temporary duty) to my unit, was suprised when I told him and an E-3 that their duty assignment one day was to escort the Colonel from the nearby Air Force Base fishing. I also told our CO, an O-2 that he needed to go fishing also. Those two and I spent many hours fishing after work, so they were the natural candidates for the escort duty. The Colonel caught a five pound Dolly Varden Trout.

 

we are finding out that world wide people don't eat all the fish we think
unless that all they have to choose from.To change the taste in my mouth,
I have been eating stemmed big cherries,I can't stop they are so good.
where are they grown,anyone know.Joe thanks for your service,was It
before or after Valdaz.

 

Thanks for the thanks.

Fishing was way before Valdez incident. But, that incident didn't affect where I was. Attu Island is so far west, the international dateline swings west to keep the State of Alaska in the same day.

I did have friends who were sent to Valdez to scrub the wildlife clean. I was on the island of Nantucket during the Valdez at that Loran Station as Officer in Charge. Ended service about 5 years later with 22 in as the OIC at the Loran Station in the panhandle of Oklahoma.

 

I'm lucky to have a good fish market near me, they sell everything from red snappers to shark. All this talk is making me hungry. My favourites are skate, dover sole, whelks, cod roe and potted shrimp (not what Americans call shrimp, which are seasoned and preserved in butter). Smoked salmon is pretty nice too.

 

All of the conosewers of good food should join In,your favorite dish,or your countries
dish they are famous for ,E.E. should eat well.

 

My favorite was dinner at Luce Verde's. It's a resturant in the town of Catanzaro Lido, Italy. In the late 70s (77-79) the antipasta, pasta, carne, dessert, and a couple bottles of wine dinner for two was about 10,000 lire. The exchange rate was 880 lire per dollar. I always orders the spagetti aribiata (angry -- read hot sauce -- pasta).

In this area, I'm partial to ribs at Spring Creek BBQ. I'd prefer my own recipes for smoked ribs or smoked wings with freshly cut maple as the smoking wood. The sap is still enough to sweeten the meats that have a dry rub of my spice mix. I'm in the land of mesquite so I'll probably have to get back to using that wood. Fresh cut maple is the best, in my opinion.

 

All thats great but that doesn't beat 144 Blue Crabs on a bit table with a mallet. mmmmmmmm good. Unfortuantely its gonna be a long while before gulf crab are edible again. Last price check last week was $45 a dozen for clean ones here in Tampa.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100809/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_blue_crabs

 

I'm lucky to have a good fish market near me, they sell everything from red snappers to shark. All this talk is making me hungry. My favourites are skate, dover sole, whelks, cod roe and potted shrimp (not what Americans call shrimp, which are seasoned and preserved in butter). Smoked salmon is pretty nice too.

By potted shrimp do you mean Shrimp? Crawfish? Prawn? Rock Shrimp perhaps? These are like little shrimp sized lobsters that are a cross between shrimp and crawfish. They kick ass but no one sells em except for people in the know. they are 80% shell but at $0.99 a pound thats no worry. Gulf fish to avoid will be, Grouper, Snapper, Shark, Mackeral, smokers and spanish, anything from the tuna family of forked tail family like mahi, crabs, shrimp, and scallops. Hopefully snook, trout, and other lower metabalism fish will get clean faster or not suffer contamination.

 

Maxpower,

Blue Claws from the Chesapeake Bay will still be plentiful ... and the price will be based on supply and demand.

 

Maxpower,

Blue Claws from the Chesapeake Bay will still be plentiful ... and the price will be based on supply and demand.

Yuck! Thats a poor substiture for good ole Gulf Blues that feed in the white sand all day. We cruise the flats and just scoop em up. Easy to see becasue its only 5 foot deap and the sand is bleached white. I've seen em pulling those crabs out of the polluted rivers up in maryland and around there. ewwwww was all I could think. Down here we wouldnt' touch a crab in a river. Well the Americans don't. The immigrants love that stuff. I live about half a mile from a major fishing bridge. When you would fish in the morning the Vietmenese or Asians that own the asian markets or resturants would walk the bridge in the morning collecting all the dead catfish, rays, and anything else they could sell off. I also used to see a old greek couple that would fish for greenbacks (Sardines) to them, bait to us. They said we had the best sardines in the world here but americans don't eat em. They would come down and get em about every other day. Now I wish I would of asked them how to prepare them because I would like to try them. Sardines are supposed to be really big around the world except in America. I know they have a union thats gonna try to change that the next couple years.

 

You can keep your clean water crabs.. Its the pollution that makes 'em taste SOOO GOOOD!

 

In scandinavia the lobster(Homarus gammarus), is almost exterminated due to heavy overfishing. The lobster fishing is heavily regulated. In some areas only open 1 month in october. And a total ban of catching has been discussed. If you take lobster during say scuba diving. You may loose your fishing gear. And that will say all your scuba equipment. And of course get a heavy fine on top of that. All these things have made the Homarus gammarus very expensive. But I do not care. As I think the taste is much in the alley same as shrimp. And that is nor hard to get. I know it is hard to discuss taste, as you only can agree to disagree. But I prefer the the crab (Cancer pagurus). And the best thing is that the catching is not regulated. You may catch all you want also during scuba diving.

Also then we are talking about seafood and taste. I think oysters are far to ballyhooed. Oysters taste and have the same consistency as well...hmm let us say snot. My favoritt is Blue mussel (Mytilus edulis). They have a very rich taste. And you can pick them along the shoreline for free.

 

I've never liked oysters myself.

I tend to agree, it is better to not eliminate a species just because we like the taste (and I do).

An average lobster is well over 30 years old when they are that size. They are a relatively long lived species, and may not recover quickly. If allowed they will recover though.

 

y'all keep your uppity, pretentious lobsters and crabs

for me it is crawfish, Zydeco and cold beer!

 

I've tried crawfish, Louisiana style. You suck the brains out?

 

I've tried crawfish, Louisiana style. You suck the brains out?

after I pinch their tail!