Do you buy lobster tails?

[Mike Boswell]

Several large supermarket chains in San Diego sell fresh lobster tails. Several times a week I pass by the displays in the seafood sections, always attractively spread out on ice. I pass them by, because to me they represent exploitation of both fisheries and fishermen. But obviously the public at large doesn't share my views.

Maybe I've seen too many U-tube movies of crippled Brazilian divers.

What do you guys think?

 

[drbill]

I think I've bought lobster tails once or twice over the past 40 years. I stopped taking my own in 1975, but willingly accept gifts from my dive buddies who do. I rarely eat more than two a year.

Are you saying that the fresh lobster tails now in stores (out of our local season) are coming from Brazil and commercial divers there are getting bent? I wasn't aware of that, so thanks for the info.

 

[tomboyy]

They go great with butter

 

[Mike Boswell]

Bill, I have seen several good videos about lobster divers paralysed in both Honduras and Brazil.

YouTube - Lobster Diver Paralysis in Honduras- SOS

YouTube - Diving with Death - Brazil

YouTube - Paralyzed Lobster Diver Interview- SOS

 

[LiteHedded]

i buy lobster tails

 

[ScubaSteve]

Pass the butter please

But in all seriousness, I prefer to eat the whole lobster and not just the tail. That is why I am happy I am from Canada ......'dem crushers is delish

 

[Thalassamania]

I do not buy tropical lobster tails nor do I eat at Red Lobster (one of the largest purchasers of tropical lobster tails), but then I've been to the villages in Honduras at the urging of Bob Izdepski (read Dying for Lobster in the Utne Reader) and seen first hand what has occurred.

 

[ONESPEED]

I think I would research the store or restaurant's source for the lobster tails before condemning their livelihood. Certainly not every seafood shop is selling lobsters caught exploiting Brazilian divers.

 

[Thalassamania]

Most all tropical lobster tails that you see in stores come from either the Honduras/Nicaragua or Brazilian suppliers.

 

[Rhone Man]

Is it worse than buying cheap TVs made using forced labour in China?