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Abalone Fishing Photo Report from Asuncion
Seeing as the abalone topic was popular, I thought you might like some pictures of the process. The guys leave San Roque around 6:30, these pics are
near San Roque Island. they shut the engine down, fire up the compressor and the diver gears up and jumps in with the tender looking after his air
hose and the boat driver mans the oars to keep them off the rocks.
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when the diver fills his sack he sends it up to the tender and they send him down an empty one.
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the tender sorts the abs in crates...60 blues to each crate
[Edited on 4-10-2008 by shari]
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this abalone weighed a KILO!
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these two were spoonin! pretty romantic huh!
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I think they are lovers....this borders on kinky...hope the moderators leave it in in the name of science!
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they head back to the cove around 10:00 or so and unload the crates having got between 100-150 abs that day. The abalone get cooked and canned that
afternoon. I hope you liked this little abalone journey.
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And here are the stars of the show, Hector the Tender, Martin the Diver and Juan the boatman. Bravo amigos.
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Loved it! Do they work the mainland as well?
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they finished at the island today and moved up towards San Pablo...they also fish along the coast.
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Great picture show---having played tag along with pulpo and langosta fishermen there, we are sure Kevin had a great time and learned a lot.
Enjoyed the show
Diane and John
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Shari, of the meat, how much is food and can be cooked/canned and sold for a product ??
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My mouth is watering...
...big time, seeing your 'succulent' pic's of those fresh Ab's!!!
There just isn't anything better tasting from the sea than fresh pounded and breaded Ab steaks sautéed in butter for a few minutes in a hot skillet!!!
Years ago we were leaving our home in Northern Calif. for a two week vacation of exploring Utah's Southern back roads. A neighbor had just come back
from the coast with several Ab's and offered us a couple! We stashed those cleaned Ab's in the ice chest and headed for the open road.
We were scheduled to meet up with my parents that had been on the road for some time at a place called Kodachrome State Park in Utah. After arriving
and setting up our camp, we broke out our 'surprise' main course for dinner that first night...My folks just about went out of their minds...Fresh
Abalone in the middle of Utah!!! We just couldn't do any wrong after that - what a fun time we all had!!!
Now I'm foaming at the mouth, just remembering all those wonderful flavors....Oh well, Raleys Markets had Angus Beef bone-in New Yorks on sale today
for $3.99/lb...I'll just have to 'suffer' through them for dinner tonight!!!
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Just to illustrate had 'dear' those Ab's are...
...I noticed last month at one of the big markets in Ensenada, they were keeping the cans of Abalone in the locked cabinets along with the high priced
liquor !!!
According to my clock...anytime is \'BAJA TIME\' & as Jimmy Buffett says,
\"It doesn\'t use numbers or moving hands It always just says now...\"
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Most of the critter you see is edible...just a bit of guys down below and they trim off the lips/edges but we save em and grind em up for burgers!
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Wow, thanks so much for this post. I have been reading about Abs on the internet and you guys have some of the very best.
Kudos to Juan!
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Very interesting post, Shari. It's not often we get to see the mating habits of abalone.
Thank you for sharing that entire experience.
And Mexray - abalone in Kodachrome Basin (I picture it at moonrise)....
can't possibly get much better than that.
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Very cool shari. Hope Juan and everyone has a safe and productive rest of the season.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
they trim off the lips/edges |
Ok Shari, that would be called the mantle or rather, the anterior margin.
Knew exactly wat chu meant.
[Edited on 4-10-2008 by Sharksbaja]
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Loved the pictures, it seems like it would be a very hard job. on a side note, is that the Kevin that was down at Christmas??? Lucky man if it is,
he is still their!
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