SC - need calamari advice

[Ron Rispoli]

First, sorry I didn't put (tongue in check) in message
Second the skyscappers are in Manhattan not Brooklyn
Third, as I remember, my accent is a lot heavier than yours.  And all this
doesn't change the fact that NYC beaches are closed periodically for all the
garbage that washes ashore.  Its been going on for well over a hundred
years.
- -----Original Message-----
From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: SC - need calamari advice


>Ron Rispoli wrote:
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Philip & Susan Troy .
>>
>> I find this odd because there are loliga squid swimming
>> >visibly in the waters off New York City and Long Island, but we mostly
>> >get frozen squid from Indonesia
>> Maybe when the garbage, raw sewage and hospital waste is removed from the
>> water??
>
>As it happens, the waters off the New York City area aren't
>significantly more polluted than most commercial fisheries, and are
>significantly cleaner than a lot of Asian waters, since, unlike much of
>Asia, there have been enforced sanitary regulations in place for a long
>time. The waters to which I referred (which are offshore, so the
>problems to which you refer are not only somwhat exaggerated but also
>irrelevant in this case, unless you never eat seafood anywhere _from_
>anywhere, ever again) actually supply a goodly amount of fin and shell
>fish to both the Eastern half of the USA, and Europe, including much of
>the world's supply of "Maine" lobster.
>
>The only real problem that is in any way chronic for the local seafood
>is mercury, which, once it soaks into the ground and gets into the water
>table, is with you for a long time, and this occurs in a small
>percentage, overall, of the total area of harvestable fisheries. This is
>controlled by limiting the waters fished and the most susceptible
>species taken (which is why most commercial striped bass is farmed), and
>is enforced by both the NY Fish and Wildlife Service and the USCG. Most
>commercial fisheries on the planet have the same problem and deal with
>it in the same way.
>
>Now knock off the ill-informed bashing before I mug you, and then sit in
>my skyscraper eating knishes and talking in a Brooklyn accent. And maybe
>saying "Fuhgeddaboudit" a few times.
>
>Adamantius
>--
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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