And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Abalone... I have not been abalone diving back in the 80's. Take the meat out, put it on a stump and whack it good a couple of times with a chunk of firewood, turn it over and do it again. The slice & cook with no more beating required. It really works!
When I was in first grade (1958) I went to the beach with my mother in the middle of the night, on the beach by Oxnard, CA. I still have the shell of the one I found, in a display case.
I used to have about fives times that many shells. I'd make buttons for shirts mom sewed. I still have a 12" shell from a red. Homemade abalone parmigiana was a favorite dish.
Since the late 1980s, it was only rarely that I saw a live abalone in the wild. None of them full grown. This correlates with the rapid expansion of the otter population under protected species status. Even the very small abalones (<2") were eaten by the ravenous otter. Since the mid-1990s I only found small blacks above the low tide line.
The story goes that the matron of the well heeled, politically connected Pfeiffer family wanted to see more otters from her cliff top house near Monterey. That was the genesis that led to protected status and colonies brought down from Alaska. F&G implemented breeding programs. They tried introducing otters to places the otters had never been. Like the Channel Islands in SoCal. All the otters died despite repeated attempts. Population growth brought disease. I despise the sea otter. I despise the heavy hand of regulation associated with it. The abalone poachers found with trunkloads of abalone get the blacks that live above the low tide level. If they can pay, they avoid heavy fines and prison. Which doesn't do a thing to stop poaching.
Thats same farking ruling elite's hubris as Mao and his sparrows that ended up murdering somewhere north of 50 million people from the famine created by too many sparrows.
Before Morro Bay was a commercial fishing port, it was a haven for abalone divers. The T piers were stacked long and deep with abalone. The shells can still be found on the beaches in the harbor. Local ranchers used the abalone and oyster shells for minerals in salt licks for cattle.
Abalone... I have not been abalone diving back in the 80's.
ReplyDeleteTake the meat out, put it on a stump and whack it good a couple of times with a chunk of firewood, turn it over and do it again. The slice & cook with no more beating required.
It really works!
When I was in first grade (1958) I went to the beach with my mother in the middle of the night, on the beach by Oxnard, CA. I still have the shell of the one I found, in a display case.
ReplyDeleteI used to have about fives times that many shells. I'd make buttons for shirts mom sewed. I still have a 12" shell from a red. Homemade abalone parmigiana was a favorite dish.
ReplyDeleteSince the late 1980s, it was only rarely that I saw a live abalone in the wild. None of them full grown. This correlates with the rapid expansion of the otter population under protected species status. Even the very small abalones (<2") were eaten by the ravenous otter. Since the mid-1990s I only found small blacks above the low tide line.
The story goes that the matron of the well heeled, politically connected Pfeiffer family wanted to see more otters from her cliff top house near Monterey. That was the genesis that led to protected status and colonies brought down from Alaska. F&G implemented breeding programs. They tried introducing otters to places the otters had never been. Like the Channel Islands in SoCal. All the otters died despite repeated attempts. Population growth brought disease. I despise the sea otter. I despise the heavy hand of regulation associated with it.
The abalone poachers found with trunkloads of abalone get the blacks that live above the low tide level. If they can pay, they avoid heavy fines and prison. Which doesn't do a thing to stop poaching.
Thats same farking ruling elite's hubris as Mao and his sparrows that ended up murdering somewhere north of 50 million people from the famine created by too many sparrows.
DeleteGrew up South coastal Orange County in the 50’s - 60’s and you could find them in the tide pools up and down the coast.
ReplyDeleteBefore Morro Bay was a commercial fishing port, it was a haven for abalone divers. The T piers were stacked long and deep with abalone. The shells can still be found on the beaches in the harbor. Local ranchers used the abalone and oyster shells for minerals in salt licks for cattle.
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