Eat this monster and save fish!

[Shirley]

Nicked this from another board....

Nice to think we can help the environment by eating - makes a change!

Eat this monster and save fish

THE largest crab to be imported live into Britain went on display at a London restaurant yesterday and provided a slap-up feast for a galaxy of the capital's top chefs. (photo)

If they were impressed, and add Norwegian red king crab to their menus, they could prove the salvation of Norway's marine life.

That is because the red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus) is not really Norwegian but an avaricious alien introduced to the Barents Sea by Josef Stalin.

Of late, millions of these monsters have been marching south along the coast of Norway, devouring everything in their path. Already they have overwhelmed the fishing ports of northern Norway and advanced more than 400 miles (640km) southwards as far as the Lofoten Islands. . . .

The one displayed in Mr Proyart's kitchen yesterday measured, including its gangling but meat-filled legs, about a metre across but was no more than average size for the species, which can weigh up to 25lb (12kg) and have a claw-span of a metre and a half. A snap of the giant's claws can break a man's finger, and it is virtually omnivorous, thriving on kelp, dead fish, seaweed, fish eggs and almost anything else that it can find on the floor of the ocean.
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The Norwegians started commercial fishing of the species only in 2002, but now they aim to remove 280,000 male crabs a year from their waters. Experts, though, say that there are at least 50 million of the creatures on the move, and that the population is exploding. . . .

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 61,00.html

[Millymollymandy]

Who's got a saucepan big enough?

[Shirley]

Well I guess Pascal Proyart, the chef at One-O-One does as he serves it in his restaurant

I wonder what size they are when the legs are chopped off

[ina]

I wonder why they intend to go for the male of the species. We all know that it's the females that are most responsible for population explosion. Do the males taste better?