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A Real Stunner: CrustaStun Device Kills Lobster and Crab More Humanely

Jace Shoemaker-Galloway — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:11:29 +0000

While many people enjoy eating a nice lobster or crab dinner, the methods often used to kill the crustaceans are sometimes seen as barbaric and cruel. It can take live lobsters up to three minutes to die when plunged into a pot of boiling hot water. It takes even longer for the crab – up to five minutes when boiled alive.

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Fish Species Rebounds After Years of Decline - Scientists Puzzled

Michael Ricciardi — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:18:40 +0000

In these days of ever-diminishing fish stocks and major threats to marine ecosystems, good news is hard to come by. But over the past few years, one fish species in particular–the Atlantic Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)–has made a dramatic comeback, surpassing even peak levels from pre-decline years.

A July 1, 2009 feature article in The Scientist–’The Great Haddock Revival’ (by Kirsten Weir)–details the remarkable rebound of this once decimated, commercial fish stock. While scientists are still debating the cause(s) of this, New England fishermen are nothing short of exuberant–especially given the concurrent decline of multiple, commercial “ground fish” stocks, such as cod, halibut, and pollock.

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140-Year-Old Lobster Freed From New York Restaurant

Andrew Williams — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:39:48 +0000

A lobster, thought to be up to 140 years old, is to be released into the Atlantic Ocean, after briefly becoming an unconventional mascot at a New York City restaurant.

PETA found out about the plight of the 20 pound crustacean when a diner at NYC’s City Crab & Seafood called to say it was being kept in the diner’s tank. PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk praised the restaurant, saying, “We applaud the folks at City Crab and Seafood for their compassionate decision to allow this noble old-timer to live out his days in freedom and peace.”

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Adventures in Lobster Liberation- or how I put $125 into the sea to swim away

Noelle dEstries — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:00:58 +0000

My kids go to an awesome little co-op preschool where my wife Heather runs recruitment. She helped organize a fundraiser last fall where I ended up winning the door prize- a gift certificate for a Lobster dinner for two. It was with one of those dealies that actually ship you the lobsters overnight. I’m really not a big fan of lobster and always had a problem with that first minute after my dad would chuck them into the boiling water when I was a kid so I put the gift certificate on my dresser and pretty much forgot about it.

In the process of packing up the house to get ready for our move (we’re moving down the road to Yarmouth, more to follow on that), Heather found the gift certificate and decided to call it in. She grew up a vegetarian, has never even had lobster, and was admittedly lob-curious.

The next day our friendly overnight delivery man rings the doorbell and leaves the box on the porch.

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