Lauren
Reged: 10/10/02
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Important article discussing the deterioration of lobster shells due to a bacteria. Apparently this shell disease now affects 30% of all lobsters in New England waters:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2005/02/16/lobster_shell_disease_spreading_but_cause_remains_elusive/
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Kara Brooks
Reged: 09/30/02
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Thanks for the article Lauren. This elusive bacteria has all but wiped out the lobsters in Long Island Sound here in Connecticut. A real blow to the lobster industry and I have read that the oysters are having a hard time as well.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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Wellfleet has a bacteria currrently doing a number on the Littlenecks...it is not harmful to humans but it weakens the shell on the clam and eventually kills it..and it is highly contageous.....they have somehow managed to keep it out of the news except for the local paper.....we cant keep dumpinmg all of our s**t...literally and figuratively into the water and NOT expect all this to transpire.....what a shame.....we are going to end up being able to eat nothing but farm raised seafood..which as far as I am concerned is completly tasteless compared to seafood from the wild.....
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davesmom
Reged: 04/14/04
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I read about the lobster issue in the NY Times this week, although the info has been around since last year. Right on, MikeR; how can we expect clean seafood if the water is constantly contaminated? There are many places you can not swim anymore, and it is flat-out disgusting, but the problem is so large-scale, I think that each community will have to work to solve it. The govt. seems to be going the other way; that is, allowing much destruction of the environment, at the moment, so what hope do our kids have?
Not a pretty picture...
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Island Visitor
Reged: 12/19/02
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Loc: Retraité
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we cant keep dumpinmg all of our s**t...literally and figuratively into the water and NOT expect all this to transpire.....what a shame.....we are going to end up being able to eat nothing but farm raised seafood..which as far as I am concerned is completly tasteless compared to seafood from the wild.....
Perhaps I have had a bit too much of the rhum. BdR. Even so, I am going to avoid drawing conclusions here.
Yet there are lessons to be drawn. Like the great Cholera epidemic of London, sometimes the simplest remedies escape us. Let us hope that civil engineers et al find a way to make "gray water" safer for the downstream critters.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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I dont think any water is monitered more then WellFleet Harbor ..once a day in the offseason.....twice in season....oysters and clams are their lifeline...its all they know....if they lose that industry, the town will then finally have to cave in and become overrrun by second home owners from New York and Boston...a fate worse then death to most local clammers and oystermen....and that would be the bigger crime...Wellfeleet is a wonderful place that, to date, has resisted the sell out, unlike its neighbors in P Town....I hope they can get a handle on this bacteria soon
Edited by Mike R (02/20/05 06:28 PM)
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Kara Brooks
Reged: 09/30/02
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I read yesterday that Connecticut is proposing a bill that will pay lobstermen to throw back females to help rebuild the population.
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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well yeah thats the other problem....lobstermen catch females loaded with eggs ( the eggs are exposed outside the tail shell in a huge sac ) and rather then throw them back...they scrub the eggs off of them with a scotch brite pad, and voila..now you can keep the lobster rather the throw it back as required and bring them to market to sell....its a continuing vicous circle....lobstermen and fishermen dont make enough money to support their families due to harsh regulations and restrictions....so they do things like scrub egg bearing female lobsters..which in turn results in less lobsters..which in turn makes it difficult to make a living...and so forth and so on.....
I hate the fact that one of the true culinary pleasures for me is a plate of a dozen Wellfleet oysters, a lemon, and a bottle of tabasco....with a pint of beer....and now I dont know if I want to risk eating those little darlings raw anymore
Edited by Mike R (02/21/05 09:30 AM)
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Mike R
Reged: 05/26/03
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Loc: Stinson Lake - New Hampshire
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why did they NOT just eat the damn thing.....too funny
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7077221/?GT1=6305
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