The enigma behind America's 20-year lobster boom
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#2The baby lobster looks remarkably like a cockroach. Maybe we should start bioengineering 20-pound roaches and serving them from food trucks instead...
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#3The baby lobster looks remarkably like a cockroach. Maybe we should start bioengineering 20-pound roaches and serving them from food trucks instead... https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/lobster.jpg?quali...
Naw, just jump straight to rebranding Hissing Cockroaches as Madagascar Land Prawns.
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#4It was a pleasant surprise to read a balanced article related to climate change.
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#5Nice article.
They touched on it, but lobster fishing is not really a fishery - it's a farm. To highlight a point from the article: one-third to one-half of most lobsters' diet is herring, stolen from the lobster traps.
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#6Yet you still have to pay $20+ for it in a restaurant. https://econfix.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-glut-of-lobsters-...
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#7This is a great article, now if only someone would make an in depth comparison to the situation in Massachusetts where they procrastinated when enacting catch limitations while fishing themselves into oblivion and now want the state to help them out...
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#8If you haven't read David Foster Wallace's "Consider the Lobster" you should. It's fantastic.
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...
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#9Yet you still have to pay $20+ for it in a restaurant. https://econfix.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-glut-of-lobsters-...
And it's $3-5 a pound off the boats. Cheaper than burgers for your New England summer barbecue.
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#10Yet you still have to pay $20+ for it in a restaurant. https://econfix.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-glut-of-lobsters-...
And it's $3-5 a pound off the boats. Cheaper than burgers for your New England summer barbecue.
Same thing with Alaska salmon. Reds (sockeye) were netting the fishermen 50 cents a pound this summer, but try pricing it in a store, much less in a restaurant.
I'm really surprised that someone hasn't disintermediated the seafood industry in a big way. Too many middlemen, plus an ultra-perishable product that would benefit tremendously from fast transactions.