Agreed. It is a brutal trade, cutting animals up whilst still alive and then throwing them back into the sea to die.raden888 wrote:I agree with Missis. Given up eating shark's fin!
Do the locals know? Hmmm... on the Angry Board one might ask if many of them would care even if they did. Of course, we're all to polite to do that hereozchick wrote:OMG! Glad I haven't bought any then. Now that it's mentioned I do recall seeing something on the box about this. Do the locals not know about this then either?
Don't worry, enjoying the fresh fish here. But what about abalone, Is that bad too? Just want to get a handle on the common things I see on the shelves here.......
sundaymorningstaple wrote:Aside from Abalone being ridiculously overpriced, I've been told, because it sounds like something good or prosperous in one Chinese dialect or another, is much like Freshwater catfish in as much as it has the ability to absorb almost any types of season/spices you cook it in. Without any spices added it is almost tasteless and resembled white rubber much like sotong with about the same consistency. When I used to be an avid freediver in northern California back in the Mid '70's we used to go ab diving off the coast of Marin County north of San Fransisco for the big Red Abs. We would cook 'em over a open fire and eat 'em on buns like hamburgers for free. I'd never actually go out and buy a can of 'em here for what? $50-150 per can? Nah! You can have 'em.
No... but I saw a guide in Egypt pick one up during a dive, and rub it up and down as if mastubating, on which it then shot out the splurge of spaghetti/junk stuff. You will understand that after witnessing that there's no way in hell I'm eating those things!sundaymorningstaple wrote:Have you ever grabbed a live one off the bottom of the ocean and had them cover you hands/gloves in the slimy stick white threads they shoot out one end? What a nasty mess! Put me off eating one right then and there! Never figured which end is the front though! They're all over the Riau Islands across the harbour (Pl Galang - 3rd Island over - Batam, Bintan & Galang) Worked there in the Vietnamese refugee camp for 3 years (88-91) and did a lot of snorkeling on the weekends while there.
For me it was twofold. A penance for my 18 months in the NAM, and a needed job at that particular time (during my transition from Offshore Oil to land based Human Resources). I've spend time in the refugee camps in P. Bidong in M'sia, Thailand, Palawan, and Indonesia and yes, it does change a person. Especially from the perspective of one who helped create the mess in the first place by being where we should never have been.JR8 wrote: p.s. Vn refugee camp, that must have been far out. I have a friend who was a nurse at a Red Cross camp just over the border from Cambodia (back in the day). I think those kinda things permanently change you...
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