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Anyway, I bring up this salt subject since we now have enough excess salt on the roadways atop the Causeway bridges and in the turning lane on LB Boulevard to re-surface the Bonneville Salt Flats. It’s a bit of a chuckle-able testimony to the astoundingly mild winter we’re having. Sure, we got a quick taste of polarness over the weekend, wet snow and all, but the testimonial part was the way state and county road crews went absolutely balls out applying salt to asphalt – the salt flowed like wine.
The overall lack of ice and snow this winter has had the road departments’ storage facilities groaning at the seams. With last winter’s wickedness in mind, i.e. the snowiest winter ever, the storage locales had been all but overloaded with ice melting minerals. When this brief opportunity to melt some minor road ice arose, the DOT and OC road boys kinda knew they better unload a crapload and a half. Many roads were way whiter with salt than snow. Overall, though, there won’t be nearly as much salt runoff into the bay this year.
Don’t think in any way this is a jab at those road crews. They’re excellent.
See more on mild winter fallout below.
TESTY LOBSTER BAITS: Maine legislators are about to rush through the strictest lobster bait law in the country. Ok, so maybe it’s the only lobster bait law in the country but who’s counting?
The thing is there’s pretty good reasons for Maine’s near manical constraints on what lobstermen put in their traps.
Since the horrific collapse of the herring fishery, the once-bountiful bait of choice for lobster trappers, that state’s $300 million a year commercial lobstering industry has aggressively been trying every bait-able item under the sun. In fact, the boys in red slickers may have been a tad too resourceful in seeking out the next great lobster bait, needed to the tune of 100,000 metric tons a year.
Lobstermen seemingly hit the roadkill trail (not really) when coming up with the freakiest of bait for one of the most sophisticated of foods. They began loading up on moose, deer and rabbit hides. Yep, jammed moose hides into traps to attract lobster – far from discerning eaters.
I can’t help but envisioning this exchange.
Patron: Waiter, there’s a moose hair in my lobster claw.
Waiter: Don’t worry, it won’t eat much.
Patron: That doesn’t even make sense.
Waiter: Oh, and I guess the notion of a pack of crazed lobster coming out of the ocean at night to stalk moose makes more sense.
Patron: I want to speak to your manager immediately.
Waiter; Truth be told, he happens to be out moose hunting today.
Despite the fact lobster seemingly thoroughly enjoy slowly clawing away at a good slab of meat-heavy hide – hair and all – a political stir developed over wildlife hides as bait. It had nothing to do with the effectiveness. It was, instead, a growing fear of public perception of Maine lobster going south, i.e. lobster lovers getting wind of their beloved high-end lobster fattening on soggy gooey wildlife meat and skin.
The state banned all such wildlife-ish carcassy baits.
Bounced off animal hides as bait, the Down East lobstermen recently came that close to finding the perfect bait. Further tribute to their inventiveness, they headed out to middle America to stock up on a fish so plentiful you can just motor along in a boat and they jump inside.
But up popped the worrywart crowd. Fears arose over the possibility of exotic diseases being carried by the carp – albeit quite a stretch that diseases of a freshwater fish could inflict themselves upon a marine organism. No matter. The state of Maine is now going after any and all freshwater species being used a lobster bait until it is thoroughly proven a species is safe. How to prove that is anyone’s guess.
So, it’s back to the drawing board for the lobstermen. And I’ll sure be watching to see what cool stuff they’ll be jamming into their traps in coming months.
COD WORMS GONE WILD: Speaking of things inside of things (huh?), you’d be amazed at what’s in a cod steak. Here’s the story inside a story.
Yet another study has arisen indicating that the fate of the cod recovery off New England has been sealed.
The latest research, done by Robert O'Boyle and Michael Sinclair, emeritus scientists at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, openly alleges that already ruined cod stocks remain in double jeopardy due to an overabundance of grey seals merrily munching away. "Our study concluded that it is the grey seals that are preventing the recovery, …” Sinclair said recently.
I shan’t get into the unsavory notion that decades of rampant overfishing by the human sector, recreational and commercial, is without question the cause of the collapse. Ask any cod. However, on both the right and left coasts of the U.S., in-depth research fully indicts babied seal populations as the current culprits. This ravenous seafood loving pinniped is now populating to beat the ecological band.
I was actually atop the protest pack railing against the still-ungodly practice of clubbing baby seals out of their furs. However, I was a lot less critical of annually harvesting seals, especially when the methodology was historically aligned with Native American traditions. Now, I have to go sciencey and admit there likely can be no recovery of cod without some sort of grey seal birth control. Yes, I’m being coolly coy with that “birth control” angle.
But, what about that story inside a story? Well, as I surfed the internet in pursuit of cod and seals, I came across a bizarre “Help Wanted