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Russ
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I quit!
I don't eat shrimp in restaurants and only bought 2 kilos for my sister up north last year so not having shrimp is not a big sacrifice.
Put me on the NO shrimp list!
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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vandenberg
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I believe that most of the shrimp you'll find in Loreto come from the Pacific side. So, does that boycott still apply 
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Martyman
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I bought shrimp at costco in NorCal. $11/lb farm raised in Vietnam
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
I bought shrimp at costco in NorCal. $11/lb farm raised in Vietnam |
Ohhhh yeah...I read about those farms, as some people call them. Others call them sewage treatment plants.
jes kiddin.....well, maybe not. 
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Hook
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
I bought shrimp at costco in NorCal. $11/lb farm raised in Vietnam |
Ohhhh yeah...I read about those farms, as some people call them. Others call them sewage treatment plants.
jes kiddin.....well, maybe not. |
Well, then you wont want to read about most feed lots, either.
It's incredible the amount of acreage in the world is directly or indirectly linked to raising meat for food. The world would be cleaner and be able
to grow many times more food if it were different.
So, time to boycott beef and pork as well.
Or is this just a NIMBY shrimp rant..............
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flyfishinPam
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
I bought shrimp at costco in NorCal. $11/lb farm raised in Vietnam |
Ohhhh yeah...I read about those farms, as some people call them. Others call them sewage treatment plants.
jes kiddin.....well, maybe not. |
Good conversation because we are educating ourselves. Here's a story on farm raised shrimp in southeast asia
http://www.internationalreporting.org/shrimp/
Its never too late to boycott shrimp
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durrelllrobert
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
.... but the brown ones are fine, too, just not as firm and meaty.
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racist! 
Bob Durrell
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castaway$
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Al of the political aspect of forming co-ops and preserving the resource is great but if everyone just quits buyng the market will collapse and prices
will go way down, so keep buying those shrimps and enjoying them it helps to stimulate the local economy until they can unionize. Paid 175 per K in
january in Mulege Yum!
Live Indubiously!
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by castaway$
Al of the political aspect of forming co-ops and preserving the resource is great but if everyone just quits buyng the market will collapse and prices
will go way down, so keep buying those shrimps and enjoying them it helps to stimulate the local economy until they can unionize. Paid 175 per K in
january in Mulege Yum! |
Next on the IDON'TGIVEAF*** menu...Giant Black Sea Bass.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think individual Nomad efforts will ever make a statement in the real world, but if it feels good in your heart, do it.
[Edited on 2-17-2011 by BajaNomad]
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castaway$
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No I'm not a member of the DILLIGAF club! Currently there 4 groups affected, the evironmentalist (scientists and activists), the capitalist (the
fisherman), the consumer (us) and the poor guy trying to survive and feed his family (the retailer), .
It's true the local Nomad or the tourist nomad aren't going to make a differance to the first two, we are part of the third, but the guy in the fourth
group, especially the guy that pulls up to you in his car and offers you shrimp or the tamales his mother just made relys on the few peso's he makes
daily.
I don't feel right about cutting that guy off while the others battle it out on a higher scale to preserve jobs yet protect the environment. I support
the necessary balance that needs to be imposed between environmental concerns and jobs, from my observations on this site, especially in Asuncion I
think balance can be acheived and their co-op is a good example to follow.
In the mean time I will buy those shrimp and tamales, and I will enjoy the heck out of them.
And as far as Black Sea Bass, I can neither confirm nor deny (yes I'm ex military) that I have eaten it, I've never had a DNA analysis performed on
any of the fish I have eaten in restaurants or purchased from my amigo's trunk
Live Indubiously!
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Hook
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Over here the pangueros get, I believe, a two week head start to the shrimp season over the death draggers. This is when we buy large quantities that
we freeze for the coming months.
Well, when we are here. September is not for the faint of heart along the S o C. We didnt get here this year until the season was a month old.
[Edited on 2-17-2011 by Hook]
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