Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs

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More or less, doesn’t matter, as long as they flash-freeze it, so I can eat it properly (raw). :stuck_out_tongue:

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Freezing wild King or Sockeye fresh out of the water is blasphemy IMO. :crazy_face:

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Only if you don’t intend to eat it properly (raw). :wink:

Also, I’ve eaten never-frozen salmon many times (raw), and never got sick. Probably just a liability thing.

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Now I think I have to go to market…haven’t made some good Sashimi in over a year.

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In Missouri :grinning:

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Yep. Walmart deli section, next to the frozen food isles.

If I want live lobster, I go to Price Cutter instead.

In podunk nowhere. :sunglasses:

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Walmart?

They have never frozen been frozen wild salmon?

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Any way…once you had King you never go back to Opilio’s.

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They have never-frozen salmon, and they have wild salmon, but now you have me questioning the combinations until I go grocery shopping next. lol

ETA: It doesn’t specify if it was never-frozen, though it’s not frozen on the shelves.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Wild-Caught-Alaska-Sockeye-Salmon-Portions-0-7-0-85-lb/895031780

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Meh much prefer Dungenes crab

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Dungeness is close second after King.

Either way hands off my crabs.

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How much crab do you eat in a year?

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How many ears of corn you shuck in a year?

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I guess it’s just me.

Only crab I eat is soft shells when they are in season or blue claws if we get them fresh. Just not a regular thing for us.

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Oh jeez…2-3 dozen a week during the season…maybe 200?

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What does that have to do with what I said?

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Dude, relax. I’m making a joke.

When I see boats boats filled with crab I’m always amazed that there is such demand, as it’s a food that I just don’t see alot of , and very rarely eat. Can’t think of the last time I had giant crab legs of any persuasion.

And when you hear a BILLION crabs went missing…dear god…that is a HUGE number. It’s all kind of mind boggling.

But hey, sounds like in this thread alone, we could probably take down a boat full, so it’s just me I guess.

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Well, they have been selling 10-lb boxes of king crab legs sourced from Russia at Costco…

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If you were to lose a billion ants, it’d be ok. The ocean is slap full of crab like that.

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You would love the weekly all-you-can-eat buffet at the Grand Aleutian in Dutch Harbor. Barrels of huge crab legs.

Even in Alaska, where they all come in, they’re close to 40 bucks a pound.