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The 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...
Yet you still have to pay $20+ for it in a restaurant. https://econfix.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/a-glut-of-lobsters-...
Amid an unprecendent glut, Larry the doomed lobster is followed from a Nova Scotia trap to a Toronto table...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/my-travels-with...
If 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...
Fascinating tale of complexity and unexpected causes and effects.
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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.
It was a pleasant surprise to read a balanced article related to climate change.
Why is this a pleasantly balanced article relating to climate change? Just because it points out that rising temps was a possible factor (amongst others) for a lobster population boom? Don't worry at least we've got lots of lobster.
Did you keep reading until the bit where that temperature sweet spot for lobsters might have already been exceeded, and it could be one of the factors that might now be adversely affecting lobster breeding?
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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.
When the colonists first arrived on the shores of New England, ...lobsters used to wash up on shore in drifts two-feet tall. One 17th century British historian by the name of William Wood visited Newfoundland and noted, "Their plenty makes them little esteemed and seldom eaten [except by the Indians who] get many of them every day for to baite their hooks withal and to eat when they can get no bass."
http://factually.gizmodo.com/lobsters-were-once-only-fed-to-...
Some contemporary Canadians remember kids from poor towns, as late as the 1940s, trading lobster sandwiches for peanut butter and jelly in the school cafeteria.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/03/how-lobster-claw...