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OAITW r.2.0

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7. Way back in the day, it was the poor people's food on the coast.

Reply to peacebuzzard (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 6, 2022, 07:52 PM

Sep 2022

Funny, no? Lifelong Mainer, and I'm not a huge fan. Maybe because I spent time on a lobster boat on Saco Bay, Maine in my impressionable young teens. The bait - on a hot day with no wind - was rough.

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So I read an article today that lobstering is a danger to whales. [View all] OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 OP

that is awful, I guess I will try to research the lobster source peacebuzzard Sep 2022 #1

But an opportunity to kick lobster fishing into the 21st century. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #3

so far I have not heard of farmed lobster peacebuzzard Sep 2022 #4

Sure, that's happening. Salmon. oysters, and other popular seafood are being farmed... OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #5

it is a great idea. peacebuzzard Sep 2022 #6

Way back in the day, it was the poor people's food on the coast. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #7

well canned tuna is still my last resort, peacebuzzard Sep 2022 #8

I was a part-time stern man (boy) for a couple of months in 1968, I think. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2022 #9

lol, I have always called shrimp the "cockroaches" of the seas peacebuzzard Sep 2022 #10

K&R for visibility Blue Owl Sep 2022 #2