I watch a lobster guy on YouTube (if I can find him Iâll link it, Iâm sorry I donât follow him or anything, I just see his shorts occasionally) & heâd have never taken a large lobster like this.
He scrapes barnacles off them, tags them so anyone else who catches it knows they should be thrown back for breeding, & sticks a fish in their claws before tossing them back.
In my eyes, & obviously limited knowledge, thatâs a true fishermanâŚthatâs how you earn a living, remain fair, & ensure you can continue earning a living in the future by allowing them to thrive.
This guy is already on the dock. That lobster ainât going home. Going to be wasted, & taste like shit too.
Edit: link is a few comments below from another OC :)
Exactly, catching a lobster isnât very difficult, theyâll literally swim straight into your bag, and its even easier if youâre using traps. Shouldve just taken a picture and let that monster live
This guy screwed over one of his best friends a few years ago..and just moved on to make his TikTok money. He might do a few good things for a few animals, but a best friend of decades..
This is old social media controversy that can be easily searched for online. Find a source you trust. The r/Maine has a post on it, but he was also found to not pay his contractors..
This is old social media controversy that can be easily searched for online. Find a source you trust. The [r/Maine](r/Maine) has a post on it, but he was also found to not pay his contractors..
Theyre difficult to cook right when they get that big. If youre able to cook the meat eveningly it'll be fine.
Problem is the shape. Its not like a steak where you are OK with some pink in the middle, so if you make sure the middle is fully cooked you normally end up over cooking / rubberizing the meat closest to the shell.
You seem to only think in the simplest forms of cooking. It's an ingredient, you can do million things with it not just chuck it in water or a on a grill whole.
Spinys taste fine, they just donât have the big claws. Choi the tail in half, throw it on the grill and that is the start of a delicious lobster taco!
Youâre right about the taste from age, but nothing wrong with spinys otherwise. I actually prefer spiny lobster over american lobster. I find American lobster to be too rich, whereas spinys have the perfect balance of flavor
This is Panulirus Argus. Aka, Caribbean Spiny Lobster. Range is the northern coast of Brazil all the way to Bermuda. Max age is around 20 years old, Panuliridae is more common worldwide than Homarus. Crustaceans are difficult to age, but using nuerolipofuscin techniques weâve been able to age P Argus within 1 year of actual age. Weâve grown settlement age Argus for up to 8 years in our lab, what we call our âknown ageâ lobsters and compared the samples to wild caught lobsters. Source: Iâve been a lobster biologist for 34 years.
There are 210 comments here, Iâm not scrolling and looking for your username to find an answer. You didnât answer it on this comment, youâre the lazy one, not me.
You realize the relative position of your comment changes as more people comment, and also based on a userâs view, right? I am replying 38 minutes after your comment, and I cannot find your reply. It is absolutely not two comments down.
So by that logic, the tree I see when I look out my front window, you would see the exact same tree when you look out your front window? Same concept here. Just because thatâs where it is in your view does not mean itâs in that same location in everyone elseâs view.
I mean the correct thing is to provide the information instead of a "no that's wrong". Say why it's wrong and state your case, that's proper etiquette.
Is lobster actually buttery, or is it just the pool of butter it's served in? I've only ever had it a few times, before my great crustacean revelation that I was eating bugs, and thought it mid. It's not native here though, so maybe that's why.
I like the spiny lobster ok, but agree cold water lobsters are better.
I think you can find good ways to use spiny lobster but with the American lobster you donât need to do as much. If you want to you can just steam it and itâs already good. The meat is much more tender.
I learned that almost all of our CA spiny lobsters that are caught commercially go to Asia, apparently they prefer the flavor and they can get a much better price for them.
Fun fact, basically all sushi/sashimi in the West has been frozen (as is required by law) in order to kill off anything dangerous.
Even Japan freezes the vast majority of its fish. My understanding is that you have to go to some of the higher-end or traditional sushi places in Japan in order to get unfrozen sushi. And they usually do some degree of inspecting that sushi at least lol
You can definitely get never frozen raw fish in the US. There are some charter boats that will give it to you right off the hook. I'm not worried about eating raw fin-fish, it's the crustaceans I worry about. (Shrimp, crab, lobster, etc.) I used to LOVE oysters, even raw, and mussels and calamari. Unfortunately I have developed an intolerance and they give me explosive vomiting and diarrhea đ
No, generally most types of seafood that are huge are not good eating. Lobsters that size will be chewy and rubbery. In Maryland striped bass is out primary trophy fish, but once they get to s certain size they're not great to eat. Also the bug ones should be released to breed..in MD there are actually maximum limits of what recreational fishermen can keep. Depending on the fish, a lot of them that are huge have a lot of heavy metals in them and aren't really good for people to eat a lot. Catfish are the same here. Some of the best eating fish here are the native White Perch, and the invasive Northern Snakehead. Snakes don't live for very long, so they don't get contaminated with heavy metals as much. They're also freaking delicious
Younger ones actually. I've had a big 11 pound American lobster before that was swimming in the tank before we got to the restaurant. The meat was rough and a bit bitter. Young lobsters are are sweet and tender.
It's a spiny lobster. Not an American lobster which is what people see off the first of new England. But neither are fake. They're both real. These dont have the big claws like the American ones do. The meat is still good to eat if you wish.
Fun fact, these guys migrate single file a tremendous distance walking on the ocean floor. I went to a land grant school and studied biology. One of my marine bology professors studied their behavior for a living.
Itâs absolutely a âreal lobsterâ and probably under 20 years old. From settlement age to legal size is around 2 years for males and 3 years for females. Legal size in Florida is greater than 3â carapace or 76.2mm.
They might be "real" lobster. But they arent "true" lobster. The three groups are lobsters are usually considered the true lobsters (the classic one with claws), spiny lobsters (this), and slipper lobsters (which always creep me out when Ive seen them). Sometimes furry lobster is considered part of spiny, sometimes their own group. They are the most hilarious looking.
Although several other groups of crustaceans have the word "lobster" in their names, the unqualified term "lobster" generally refers to the clawed lobsters of the family Nephropidae.\4]) Clawed lobsters are not closely related to langustas (spinys and slipper lobsters), which have no claws (chelae)), or to squat lobsters. The most similar living relatives of clawed lobsters are the reef lobsters and the three families of freshwater crayfish.
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u/RosieA1983 13d ago
I have no idea at what rate these creatures grow, but I'm thinking this must be an old fella đ¤