That stuff is frozen and shipped to Minnesota not used locally.

I wonder if the Maine lobster that I consumed while in the Navy stationed in Maine were shipped in frozen from somewhere other than Maine.....

...the ones we ate in New London, CN came right off the catch boat, but everyone knows the submarine service gets the best of everything.

...HTFU. My lunch today was a large bowl of Bun Bo Hue with blood cubes in it. Real men eat everything that walks, swims, crawls, or flies. Except maybe flies....you gotta draw the line somewhere.

To a great extent that is correct. Sure they are bringing in crabs from the Chesapeake, but the mystique of that location is so great that the product is in tremendous demand elsewhere. And for several years the Chesapeake fishery has been overstressed and unable to keep up with demand. So the irony is that the local catch is shipped out, and the Gulf catch is shipped in. Not 100% by any means, but a huge amount.

I dunno, my cats seem to LOVE eating flies so they may be tasty.

Yes, yes it is. I wouldn't say every. The shortage of Chesapeake crab and its popularity elsewhere is all well documented.

My guess is that steamed live crabs are more likely locally sourced while picked crab meat is more likely refrigerated and shipped out. That would be the most cost effective approach.

...the whole anti-lock brake thing must be hysterically funny. The guy who did my wife's Camry was telling me about the poor kid who pulled his pads and watched helplessly while the caliper pistons went flying. I can see that happening to me. It was a lot easier to do this stuff on a '68 Dodge Dart.

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...what has happened to the Chesapeake Bay in my lifetime is a great tragedy. And it was all pretty much predicted, studied, and recorded by some of the guys at the University of Maryland. I guess it's what happens when you have a watershed like that with so many different states involved. We're doing our best to **** up the Sac San Joaquin delta and the San Francisco Bay, but it's been slower to degrade because California does do some meaningful regulation on water quality and discharges into it.

Crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay, both with dip nets and a line, and with traps, occupied many of my weekends as a yout'.

Here is a quotation from a Baltimore Sun article from this past June regarding the early season shortage:

"This is one of the slimmest springs we've seen in a long time," said Anthony Conrad of Parkville-based Conrad's Crabs & Seafood Market. "The price ... is outrageous for a box of Louisiana male crabs," he said — typically about $250, it's now about $60 higher. The price for a bushel of Maryland crabs is lower — anywhere from $130 to $180 a bushel. But there aren't nearly enough Maryland crabs to supply Maryland restaurants...."

Here is the link to the reference: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-crabs-shortage-20150615-story.html

i dont know what that is, but im gonna go ahead and assume its some kind of broth noodle dish bowl conglomeration

ive tried all kinds of crazy looking **** out of the ocean, prawns, crabs, lobster, uni, and just about everything else that lives in a shell. i enjoyed none of them.

i dont eat any of those things anymore, but i have big bushy beard.

Geoduck for life!!!

Quoted . . . For . . . Truth.

They might be tasty, but I've never found the work involved to retrieve those little slivers of meat worth it.

So hurtful.

I work my fingers to the bone around here, and what appreciation do I get?

For me, Alaskan King crab is the only one worth working for. It's pretty easy to crack the legs on those and pull out big ol' hotdog-size hunks o' crab.

Good think I moved outta Oregon. The Oregon Dungeoness Board would be all over me!

Yeah, I must have been hallucinating on my trips to Cbay.


Of course they were. From the gulf, naturally.

Anyone care to help me with my Lezyne leaking pump head thread??

I was not a submariner. But, being stationed in Maine allowed me to have some great fresh lobster for a few years.

Do you want it locked?

I want the pump head to lock on without leaking. Thank you for your contribution.

...I have given you one answer, but a prophet is without honor in his own land.

I see what you wrote. And I agree the old Silca chuck is a good design. I have an old Silca floor pump actually, my beef with it is that the gauge is not accurate. Maybe I will make a frankenpump...

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...is there a party planned for when the "Going to yell at you" thread hits 100 pages ? I need to plan what I will wear.

Check out the sweet socks the little lady got for me.

...at the aforementioned bike co-op, I ended up running several Frankenpumps, because they originally bought Park. OK pump body, but totally useless heads. They go bad after a week sometimes.

...#shesakeeper