The gluttonous predators drill into the shells of oysters and suck out the insides.

Let's hope they don't develop a taste for human insides.

New food idea! Snoysters - a gourmet, appetizer version of the Turducken.

'I'm paying top dollar for this, you'd think you could keep the snails out of the food!'

Snail: "Shucks."

Woo! Mollusk thread!

Anyway we could harness the power of these snails to get rid of zebra mussles?

poisonedpawn78: Coming from a starwars fan. This Meme needs to die. Its not even funny and only shows those who use it need to get out of the house more.

Seriously. Stop. It.


I find your lack of faith....

Meh.

/Fark it.
//You're right.

No Spartcus references? For shame, Fark!

LandOfChocolate: And with that comment, you just prolonged its usage. If something bothers you, just ignore it and it will eventually go away.

Except for cancers and large parasites. Those you should probably pay attention to.

Mmmmmmmmmm. Tamales Bay...


/wait...wut?

Because they were so small, it took 1,600 to 2,000 shucked Olympias to make a gallon. So it didn't take long for the oyster beds in San Francisco Bay to be depleted.

Although some harvesting continued in some areas of California until the 1930s, wild oysters in the Bay Area were pretty much wiped out by 1911.

"This underlines the consequences of introduced species [meaning the Whelk]," Grosholz said. "We've lost ecosystems that we may not be able to recover."

You mean like everyone swarming in and gobbling down a species until there's nothing left? Even filing lawsuits and petitioning Congress to be allowed to do so?

The river in my area was being fished out by commercial fishermen years ago and the government stepped in to stop it.
Due to netting, high value fish, which had catch limits and seasons, were 'accidentally' getting caught also. The fishermen, so as not to face huge fines, pulled the mostly dead or dying fish from their nets and tossed them over the side -- to die.

Basically, that was kinda like having no catch restrictions at all on fish like Trout.

The river is right next to the Atlantic Ocean and is salty but the fish are more confined.

The commercial fishermen filed lawsuits, protested, petitioned congress and raised all sorts of a fuss to retain the right to fish the river until there were no more fish. They lost, but the government compensated them.

That was well over 20 years ago. The local population of fish started making a comeback. Then the local population of humans exploded and 'sports fishermen' and thousands of pleasure boats flooded the river. Even with tighter restrictions and licenses needed, the fish population has dropped.

Oyster and clam beds have been nearly wiped out. Even 'garbage' fish like mullet now have catch limits. Commercial crabbers (not actually fishermen, so excluded from the ban) have made it so you can't catch the huge, delicious Blue Crabs that used to thrive there. Just the smaller ones, since the Crabbers have taken all of the older one.

I don't think we need to be that concerned over invasive species wiping out certain native fish.

The humans are doing a great job of it all by themselves.

spukey23: sboyle1020: Oysters and Escargot (my car go 150 swiftly) are awesome.

Anyone know oysters well? I went to a restaurant last week and they had Long Island Oysters as an appetizer for $10. Much to my chagrin when she brought them out there were only 3 oysters. Everytime I've gotten oysters as an appetizer is was a half dozen. Me being the ass I am, confronted the waitress and said that price was outrageous for $10. Was I right to complain or are "Lond Island" oysters actually that expensive?

No idea, fitzgerald wrote it has something to do with the west egg and east egg.
/wonder if zelda liked oysters, heard she was a curious character

3 bivalves of any kind for 10 bucks is beyond crazy.

Once did a family reunion trip to Nawlins, We went to Commanders Palace and ate nothing but oysters and drank nothing but Dixie Beer.
I didn't get stuck with the bill but I know I personally ate a full gross of the little jewels. 12 dozen is alot of oysters, just in case you didn't know.