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issuevoter Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9200 The Great State of Mind Gender:	Re: $20 crayfish at Coles, snap em up Reply #30 - Dec 24^th, 2020 at 5:09pm No $20 crays at my Coles.
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Reply #31 - Dec 24^th, 2020 at 5:54pm

Same here, havent seen them. Saw some rather small $27 dollar cooked ones outside the fishmongers on iced trays crawling in blowflies though. No thanks. Not sure how they get away with that sh!t but common practise. health department needs to get involved. But no, the mythical 20 dollar Coles crayfish has been a unicorn hunt for me.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131492 Gender:	Re: $20 crayfish at Coles, snap em up Reply #32 - Dec 24^th, 2020 at 6:55pm Valkie wrote on Dec 24^th, 2020 at 8:25am: I still cannot see peoples attraction to what amounts to be a salt water cockroach. Prawns, lobsters and crabs feed off the offal on the seabed. Basically cockroaches. YUK Do you eat pigs?
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131492 Gender:	Re: $20 crayfish at Coles, snap em up Reply #33 - Dec 24^th, 2020 at 7:49pm issuevoter wrote on Dec 24^th, 2020 at 5:09pm: No $20 crays at my Coles. Is catching crabs from a $20 hooker in a Woolworths car-park the same kinda thing?
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Reply #34 - Dec 24^th, 2020 at 10:09pm

I worked in Halifax Canada in 1991 and in crayfish season restaurants had all you can eat for $20 and it kept coming.

Had a similar experience in Thailand in 1985 where I ordered a crayfish dish and I found it was meant for four people. Couldn't eat it all.

In both instances it was too much, and a turn-off and crayfish no longer interests me.

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Reply #35 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 9:36am

Laugh till you cry wrote on Dec 24^th, 2020 at 10:09pm:

I worked in Halifax Canada in 1991 and in crayfish season restaurants had all you can eat for $20 and it kept coming.

Had a similar experience in Thailand in 1985 where I ordered a crayfish dish and I found it was meant for four people. Couldn't eat it all.

In both instances it was too much, and a turn-off and crayfish no longer interests me.

Is that because you don't know the difference between crayfish & lobster?

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 72209 Gender:	Re: $20 crayfish at Coles, snap em up Reply #36 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 9:41am Valkie wrote on Dec 24^th, 2020 at 8:25am: I still cannot see peoples attraction to what amounts to be a salt water cockroach. Prawns, lobsters and crabs feed off the offal on the seabed. Basically cockroaches. YUK The attraction is 'flavour' . If cockroaches taste the same let me know,.
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Reply #37 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 9:51am

Gnads wrote on Dec 25^th, 2020 at 9:36am:

Laugh till you cry wrote on Dec 24^th, 2020 at 10:09pm:

I worked in Halifax Canada in 1991 and in crayfish season restaurants had all you can eat for $20 and it kept coming.

Had a similar experience in Thailand in 1985 where I ordered a crayfish dish and I found it was meant for four people. Couldn't eat it all.

In both instances it was too much, and a turn-off and crayfish no longer interests me.

Is that because you don't know the difference between crayfish & lobster?

You are correct. I should have said lobster. I wasn't aware there was a difference.

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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20228 Gordon Gender:	Re: $20 crayfish at Coles, snap em up Reply #38 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 10:33am It's a bait (no pun intended) and switch scam. When Colesworth announced they would have sushimi grade tuna I asked the lady at the seafood counter if the had any. She said no sorry, I pressed her and asked what day and time it comes in. She said they get 500gr once or twice a week.
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Reply #39 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 11:16am

They should ban recreational catching of Crays.
(A lot sold under the table to restaurants)

Must take all available measures to make Crays more abundant along the shallow Coastal fringes where many species rely on Kelp Forests to protect 'eggs' towards maturity and growth.
Urchin Barrens litter the coastline in an ever thinning environment.
Less Crays - means a less of everything else, except Urchins.

Xmas as an excuse for a frenzy on Crays? No way.

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Johnnie Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 12485 Gender:	Re: $20 crayfish at Coles, snap em up Reply #40 - Dec 25^th, 2020 at 8:24pm I am lobsterd out , i have managed to save enough for a lobster sandwich tomorrow. There should be an investigation into this Coles/Wollies lobster scam. The cray boats are doing overtime in the West i hear so lobsters maybe plentiful soon.
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Re: $20 crayfish at Coles, snap em up
Reply #41 - Dec 26^th, 2020 at 6:54am

Jasin wrote on Dec 25^th, 2020 at 11:16am:

They should ban recreational catching of Crays.
(A lot sold under the table to restaurants)

Must take all available measures to make Crays more abundant along the shallow Coastal fringes where many species rely on Kelp Forests to protect 'eggs' towards maturity and growth.
Urchin Barrens litter the coastline in an ever thinning environment.
Less Crays - means a less of everything else, except Urchins.

Xmas as an excuse for a frenzy on Crays? No way.

Why? It's not banned in NZ. Heavily regulated just like here.

The number of amatuers/recreational that can/are able or should I say game to dive to get the odd cray is not the worry.

That is unless you count the organised groups who illegally plunder all sorts of seafood resources around our coastlines. They're the ones black market supplying restaurants.

Diving & catching/spearing crays isn't that easy for everyone.

I used to go out with a mate & his father when I was a kid in FNQ in the late 60's early 70's..... if he got 4 or 5 for the day that was a good day.

They never tried to take too many.

As for sea urchins destroying kelp forests(tasmania & southern states) you can thank the modern shipping trade & ships captains not caring where they dump their ballast water.

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Reply #42 - Dec 26^th, 2020 at 9:41pm

New Zealanders are smarter than Aussies. They rotate their spearfishing zones to allow recovery. They worked out a lot of fish 'leave' areas of active spearfishing (and line fishing) due to stress also.

It's got to the point where there is so much more 'recreational' activity on and in the water these days, that it could be having a heavy impact like Commercial did ages ago. I've seen spots hammered by over 50 spearos in various groupings during holiday periods. The place is pulverised and many just left dead on the sand bottom - killed just for the hit, more than the feed.

One year 76 Aboriginals were caught using their 'traditional rights' to sell fish to many restaurants/fishn'chip shops under the table. Nothing happened to them though.

I'm sure shipping dumpings contribute to the cause.
Sydney Harbour Kelp still looks more sickly than kelp further away from the city.

No Crays.
No Kelp.
No everything else.

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Reply #43 - Dec 28^th, 2020 at 7:28am

Jasin wrote on Dec 26^th, 2020 at 9:41pm:

New Zealanders are smarter than Aussies. They rotate their spearfishing zones to allow recovery. They worked out a lot of fish 'leave' areas of active spearfishing (and line fishing) due to stress also.

It's got to the point where there is so much more 'recreational' activity on and in the water these days, that it could be having a heavy impact like Commercial did ages ago. I've seen spots hammered by over 50 spearos in various groupings during holiday periods. The place is pulverised and many just left dead on the sand bottom - killed just for the hit, more than the feed.

One year 76 Aboriginals were caught using their 'traditional rights' to sell fish to many restaurants/fishn'chip shops under the table. Nothing happened to them though.

I'm sure shipping dumpings contribute to the cause.
Sydney Harbour Kelp still looks more sickly than kelp further away from the city.

No Crays.
No Kelp.
No everything else.

If Kiwis are so smart & it's so good over there how come 568,000/2.3% of Aust population are here? Including you.

NSW Govt Fisheries have regulations for Traditional/Customary for Aboriginals & it doesn't include them selling to restaurants unless they are a registered commercial fishing business.

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