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capt. mike
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Gooey (sp?) ducks???
on Bourdain's show last night - Seattle was the feature - they were at the muddy areas by the sea and digging up these strange looking giant clam like
creatures that had bodies bigger than, no actually hanging out of the shells.
he called them gooey ducks?
i thought Bob F posted a pic of one from baja once too.
supposed to be pretty good to eat after cleaning, i'd like to find some to try.
anyone?
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DENNIS
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Geoduck.........
Pronounced just like Mike said it. I thought these guys were native of a more northern area like Oregon and Washington. Not sure you'll find them in
Baja.
Diver has to be familiar with them.
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Mike,
Not sure you'll find them south of Oregon. Sharks could verify that. We ate them when living in Washington State. I belive them to only be in Pac
NW extending into south eastern Alaska.
Of all the things to highlight on his show trust Bourdain to pick Geoducks. They are supposed to get as large as 6' and 12#'s.................
By the way Mike, his book Kitchen Confidential is a hoot. A great read for those interested in fine dining and or the restaurant business.
Saludos,
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Russ
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Use to eat them a lot too when I lived on the Hood Canal.
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Debra
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Dennis...........Seattle IS in Washington. 
Mean people suck!
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Yes but would Shari eat one raw?
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tripledigitken
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The question is will Capt'n Mike eat one raw?
ken
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Found on another Blog---
"For the last five years this diving operation has harvested giant clams in the sand one to two miles off shore. The clams are harvested using
compressed air driving water to expose the "queen of the clams". Each diver usually works a 4-hour shift under water dredging and harvesting. The
visibility is "0" so all is accomplished by knowledge passed on from years of experience (braile method). Divers or "buzos usually descend down 60
feet to the sand clam beds. Each buzo/diver harvest 100 to 200 per each shift. The clams are only exposed 1-inch above the sand bed. As they move the
reverse dredge over the sand bank they feel with their spare hand to grab the clam, then place it in an elongated net/sack to be hauled to the
surface. The net/sack usually contains one hundred "queen clams", usually they work two weeks at a time.
They require low currents and that is when the tides are "dead", so full moon and new moon cycle are time off. Most of the gentlemen are from Santo
Tomas just south of Ensenada. The divers/buzos are very professional and adhere to the safety standards for buzos/divers around the world. Their
breathing equipment is via a normal scuba mouth regulator and a long hose connected to a compressor inside the panga. Special oil and air filter safe
for buzos/divers. All communication between boat tenders and the diver/buzo is via rope pull signals. The operation consist of three pangas, six
tenders and three buzos/divers. The operate two shifts a day.
The "queen clams" are kept alive in the pangs storage hole with fresh salt water and compressed air. Every evening they are transported to Ensenada.
In Ensenada they are repackaged in aerated shipping containers and shipped to San Diego, California. From San Diego the containers are then loaded
into airline cargo holes for the 8-10 hrs flight to Japan, Hong Kong and china alive!
Only the outer area of the "queen clams" is eaten. it is sliced very thin strips and the preferred way of consumption is raw. Only a very small
percentage of the clam is consumed.
We wish to thank Almena Reyna and their crew for taking the time explain
to us in their endeavors. All the gentlemen we shared time with were extremely professional and articulate -mochas gracias"
Have a couple of pics....I can't get them loaded, Sorry! They are UGLY looking things!
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Three Septembers ago I met a diver in Bahia de Los Angeles.
He told us to meet him at the dock after dinner.
There he had a container the size of a Mini Cooper.
It was stuffed with live geoducks.
He said he was trying to start an aquaculture program, though we didn't overlook the possibility that they were native to the bay.
Evidently they grow them at Bahia Magdalena as well.
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Bob and Susan
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you NEED to get OUT of that arizona heat mike...
cause you KNOW what this thing looks like to me
...and...
you want to EAT ONE!!!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Debra
Dennis...........Seattle IS in Washington. |
Yeah.... I know. I'm tired.
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Sharksbaja
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Gooey-yucks?
I believe they are only found N Ca. coast to BC. There are cousins found in warmer waters but nothing compares to the size and er, girth of these
thangs. No thanks not interested unless YOU prepare it.
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Frank
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
you NEED to get OUT of that arizona heat mike...
cause you KNOW what this thing looks like to me
...and...
you want to EAT ONE!!! |
Must be a male clam
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Ken Bondy
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mike here's a geoduck intake siphon. The clam is about 18" below. There are thousands of them in Morro Bay.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
you NEED to get OUT of that arizona heat mike...
cause you KNOW what this thing looks like to me
...and...
you want to EAT ONE!!! |
An elephant? What are you guys laughing about?
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capt. mike
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wow, yep that's them all right.
so Anthony says...and yes Ken i read parts of his book, its a scream! - that he wanted to put one inside his speedo and strut around, man he's funny.
but they ate some raw and cooked right on the beach there. he said they were yummy.
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OK, if you have to look for "mirugai" next time you visit your favorite Sushi restaurant.
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Mike, You are a bad speller.
First, we find out that gooey is spelled geo, and now, after seeing the picture, we learn that you have also misspelled duck.
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2 years ago, there was an operation running from Villa Vitta's pier in BOLA, shipping Goeducks out by helicopter for Japan. The foreman said each
4x4x10 box was worth $100K in Tokyo.
We used to be able to collect Goeducks from waist deep water in BC 30 years ago, but the vietnamese and commercial harvesters destroyed that. Now, you
need to go 100 miles from Vancouver & 75 feet down to get them. Went from being almost giveaways to nearly the price of lobster!
The way we cook them in BC is to take the "foot", smash it with a big hammer for ages, bread it & panfry. It's called a clam steak. Mmmmm,
yummy.
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Peel the skin off of the long siphon - put them in a meat grinder - add milk and a few vegetables and you have a wonderful clam chowder - used to do
this for 50 students in morro bay before it was too polluted to eat them - there is also a great song about the geoduck - "dig a duck, dig a duck, dig
a geoduck, dig a duck, dig a duck, dig a geoduck a day." - band from San Diego... words on request - singing it will cost a few bucks....
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