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Old Apr 08, 2007, 07:58 PM
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Juliana said:
That's interesting Sky.

My nana's family would have starved to death if they hadn't eaten shellfish. In their little corner of the world, lobster was the main source of food. The land was too rocky for much more than subsistance farming and they survived mainly on lobster... not many other fish close to the shore. Many of my relatives still eat a lot of lobster and that's how they earn a living too.

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Interesting too.

This guy here recently got caught in a current while diving (for crayfish, which are kinda lobsterish).

His boat could not find him, and he was in the water for 78 hours. He very nearly died.

The thing that probably saved him was that he'd harvested a crayfish, and the meat / liquid from that (given that he floated around the bottom of the North Island of NZ for over 3 days).

The cray was both a psychological link for him (he said it became almost like a friend, the fact there was another living creature around him), and a source of the only nutrients he had in that time.

Btw, cray is very sweet and delicate ... YUM. <craving>