In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Not to target any one group of people... posted by Eric S on June 06, 2009 at 21:33:55:

hah...Asians like those too. I've seen lingcod in live tanks at the market sell for something like $25/lbs (I'll have to verify that)

I think the only people who have much of any interest in urchins are the Japanese and maybe the Koreans. And maybe only Chinese individuals who've been exposed to sushi.

I know of a grocery store in Oakland Chinatown that sells farmed red abalone in a live tank for $25/lbs; there's often about 50 of them in a 55 gallon tank and they have the cleanest shells I've ever seen but they're only 3~5 inches in width. I've never seen anyone buy them, but every time I'm there, the abs are all alive. I'll try to take a snapshot some time.

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