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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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Howdy Doody Michael!

->  HN> I've never seen them in a market or on
->  HN> a menu. I have seen them when diving
->  HN> but that was years ago.
-> 
-> theseafoodmerchants.com, an outfit from Chicago, has in
-> its catalogue
-> 
-> PINK SCALLOP (Chamys rabida, C. hastata)
-> Availability: All year round
-> Size:   25ct/lb, 10 lb/bu
-> This is a deep-water scallop harvested off of Vancouver Island 
-> and in Puget Sound at a depth of around eighty feet. The whole 
-> animal is edible. Sweet and slightly chewy, the body meat is 
-> very colorful with the roe an orange color in females and white 
-> in males. Normally in this country (not in the Orient or Europe) 
-> the body of the scallop is needlessly discarded and only the 
-> mussel [sic] meat is served. 
-> 
-> Other seafood wholesalers closer to you make no such offerings.
-> I don't know what that says.
-> 
I've never seen or heard of anyone 
going after them commercially in 
Puget Sound...but I only know
a small slice of the folks 
in the industry. 

->  -> the public has taken indicates that they have somehow
->  -> elevated octopuses to cute or pet status. Peculiar.
->  HN> The particular reason this one was so
->  HN> upsetting, is that it was in an area
->  HN> of high diving density (right off alki beach)
->  HN> where hundreds of divers have "met" this 
->  HN> octopus and fed it and handled it and 
->  HN> developed "relationships" with it. It
->  HN> was quite tame and used to being 
->  HN> handled and sometimes even fed by
->  HN> human divers. this was more akin
->  HN> to hunting elephants at the zoo.
-> 
-> Ah, so petlike status, and some noob comes around and
-> pots it. I was swayed by his disclaimers that he didn't
-> know it was wrong, but the fact that he dived into the
-> well-known habitat of this tamed creature and bagged a
-> sitting duck, well, I can understand the death threats.
->
There were plenty of them and a move
was afoot to deny refills to the scuba
tanks of the culprits. But as it often
is...news only lasts about 3 days and 
then everyone forgets all about it.

-> It must be added that making playthings out of wild
-> animals is not particularly praiseworthy behavior either.
->
But it happens all the time
Look at all the bambi's and
raccoons, and even possums
that get fed off of back porches.
 
->  -> Fried Calamari
->  HN> I like calamari (squid) many ways
->  HN> but have to admit that fried is 
->  HN> one of the least pleasing to me.
-> 
-> I like them pretty much any way they come, except tough.
-> Fried tentacles are one of the great joys of life. I
-> wonder what tentacle sashimi would be like - we generally
-> just get frozen, so I can't make it for myself. Annie
-> is offering to treat me to lunch at the local sushi joint
-> when I arrive tomorrow; maybe I will inquire, but as I
-> recall, the ika is always body meat, never wigglies (a
-> more accurate term than tentacles, which more properly
-> refer to the longer feelerlike appendages; what we call
-> tentacles the scientists tend to call arms, as they are
-> used for grasping and locomotion more than for feeling).
->
Come out and visit in January sometime
and maybe we'll get my gear out and go
squidding...it's an "at night" activity
and is often cold and wet, but you get
live squiddies for the effort. Not as 
big as they used to be...but squiddies 
none the less!
 
On an aside note. Amanda is coming in
tomorrow night at about midnight for
a couple of days...she has an interview
with the Pt Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. 
We are DELIGHTED as she was not planning
on making it home this Christmas as
she needs to conserve what savings 
she's been able to make in the last
year. 
chat with you soon!
ha
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