Today the Oysters, perhaps tomorrow the citizens of the U.S. (but I doubt it)
CLOSE THE FRICKEN BORDERS!
If those oysters get within a 1/4 mile of my brothers they will be extinct.
So what does this mean, I'll have to start doing a catch and release thing instead of a catch and cocktail sauce thing?
Maybe Fat Teddy and John Kerry don't want to have to look at oystermen when they're out tooling around Nantucket Sound on their yachts.
Poor Eastern oysters, we hardly knew ye.
In fact, I never knew ye and would rather eat raw snot, but that's beside the point.)
Tell ya what, how about just the cocktail-party Liberals in blue states quit wasting them on themselves.
Oughta be plenty left for me.
What about chickens?
Didn't I hear that chickens are an endangered species?
It could provide jobs for some otherwise unemployable parasites.
It's always the good stuff that finds its way to endangerment. Why not cabbage? Or scrapple? I would be willing to do my part to ensure their survival.
Does any other animal apart from man eat those snotty things?
Oystermen in the Chesapeake Bay have been clamoring for something to be done for the last 20 years, they didnt pay any attention. Now when New England has a problem all of a sudden they look into it. I guess now we know where the political power is.
Chesapeake Bay oysters are an endengered species because of a disease not because of overharvesting. Proper Harvesting of oysters actually helps them ,it cleans the sediment from the beds and brings them to the top of the sand where they can breathe. I remember when there were 1600 oystermen in St Mary's County, Md. , now there are less than 50. The overharvesting has pretty much taken care of itself here as the oysters have dissappeared because the disease.
Certainly a ban on gathering oysters will not save them it will only allow sediment to build up on the hard bottom they take hold on and these oyster beds will dissappear.
I hope some of these brilliant people who run things actually ask a waterman what needs to be done as most are full of crap when it comes to oysters.
Ah, NOW I see where the interest by government comes from.
What's the matter, too many people kicking the smoking habit?
"Including the American oyster on the endangered species list would come as another major setback for the Massachusetts shellfish ... state Sen. Robert O'Leary, D-Barnstable, wrote in a press release earlier this week."
--- But I thought that a judge in Mass already ruled that you couldn't stop Lesbian marriage, how can eating oyster be endangered?
\smart-ass sarc
Well, looks like I better have one last plate of blue points while I still can. Pass the horseradish and tabasco and move back out of the way.
If they ever try that with the Gulf oysters down here......katie bar the door! :)
"Winning isn't everything, there's also oysters on the half shell and cold beer at halftime..." - A New Orleans Saints fan.