I've heard it put as the tale of the Pike and the Minnows. The more freedom the Pike has to do what it wants (eat its tasty young), the less freedom for the minnows. This is the fundamental fallacy in the Citizen's United decision. It frees the Pikes to make the minnows nothing but prey.
I've heard it put as the tale of the Pike and the Minnows. The more freedom the Pike has to do what it wants (eat its tasty young), the less freedom for the minnows. This is the fundamental fallacy in the Citizen's United decision. It frees the Pikes to make the minnows nothing but prey.
Ugh, slimy carp in a gelatin laced jar. Itried it once, never again, same with Bacalao, and that Norwegian dish Lutefisk, or Rakfisk. Ughh, you have to be raised on that stuff, to get it past your lips.
Some use pike. Before Lake Erie became completely polluted, pike everywhere. We had Northern Pike in our streams in Pennsyltucky.
Carp were so prevalent, that when the Indians had to change their name, I suggested the Cleveland Carps. Now the lake is overrun with Coho Salmon so the Cleveland Coho might be a better name.
At one point Erie was a dead lake. One tributary the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it caught on fire. However, the lake has been reclaimed and Coho were introduced.
Oh yes, I was six years old and living in Cleveland the last time that river burned. It made quite the impression on me. I moved to the mountains of NC in '96 and became a white-water raft guide working the waters of NC, TN, GA and WV for 15+ years. People would often ask how clean or polluted the rivers are and I'd always respond, "They're not catching on fire like they did when I was a kid!"
Eventually I did a little homework to verify my childhood memory and learned that the Cuyahoga had caught fire about a dozen times before. After further contemplation I theorized that passage of The Clean Water Act was made possible by the proliferation of television. I suspect that the last time the river burned it was televised unlike previous times when it was simply in black and white print on paper. Only when enough people could SEE the river burning there was sufficient support for regulation.
In those good old days the bald eagle was nearly extinct too. Those were the seeds that blossomed into environmental activism for so many of us. It's a pity how far we have wandered into the weedy thickets of digital distractions and a hopeful wonder how wildlife has rebounded. Here in western NC, the black bear population has exploded with careless people failing to properly manage their trash. The bears know the garbage day schedules and raid the cans where they snack on discarded fast processed foods laced with hormone disrupting compounds. As a result, the bear mature earlier and have become far more fertile. It's now quite common for a mother to have triplets and even quadruplets instead of just one or two. Most of us love the bear and we text one another when they pass through our neighborhood so children and pets are kept safe while we treasure the sight of those wonderful beasts. Many of us know of their presence by the barking of dogs which is subtly and distinctly different that the barking produced when pedestrians and pets pass by their properties.
Mr./Ms. Elementstew. When I was a boy in Holland ,Michigan I frequently caught 100 perch in an Hour from Lake Micihigan. I used hooks without barbs because the fish hit in such rapid succession it took too long to get them off a barbed hook and drop it back into the water. I squeezed the eggs out of the females into the water and this sent the fish into a feeding frenzy. The water was so clean I could peer twenty feet down into the lake and clearly see rocks and fish. Young people in Holland do not believe me when I tell them this. Fish now? Long gone. Water? All polluted and cloudy. How are the Finger Lakes currently? I have not been there in many years.
Is there anything more savory than a perch sauteed in butter with a pinch of salt and Pepper?
It's Mr., Marshall E Johnston. The finger lakes are relatively well and fairly clean these days although the alewives have outcompeted the perch.
I'm in western NC these days although considering a move back to NY.
The old rust belt should be rehabilitated, imo. There is bountiful water there and an excess of great old residential architecture in need proper care. With climate change making other areas of our country more dangerous and untenable a rust belt revival seems logical.
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Is pike even edible. It looks like it would taste horrible. By the way I can't get salmon past my lips, I have tried, I really have, but I wind up puking. Not good.
During the time of Henry VIII and earlier, Salmon was poor man's food, the food of serfs and freemen, because the rivers ran so thick with salmon you could catch them in a basket.
Chicken on the other hand was the food of Royals and nobility. Today it is just the opposite.
And I don't like Chicken either even the smell of it cooking makes me gag, not as bad as duck though.
Mr. Farrar. Northern Pike and Muskie are out-of-this-world tasty. The only problem is that the tails are filled with Y-shaped bones which stick in the teeth like tooth picks . Much more savory than Salmon, which is over-rated, in my opinion. Each to his own right? I have caught 4 foot Northerns and 6 foot Muskies in Ontario. A Feast for eight adults.
To each is own is correct. Salmon makes me gag, too strong a flavor, and not attractive, I tried fresh caught salmon roe, spit it out. I doubt that I would like Pike and Muskie (what ever that is)
I make hell of a ceviche with either shrimp or whitefish, lemon juice, salt, a tad of cilantro, habernos, (fresh), onion, chopped fine (actually put in a blender along with the juice salt, cilantro, habenero and a tomato
Only a habenero will do, it has a unique flavor, tried it once with jalapeno's and threw it out
A Muskellunge eats anything ducks, geese, cormorants, beavers, otters hunting dogs, other Muskies, you name it, a Muskie will at least try to eat it, at least bite it.
You serious. A fish could eat a beaver, hunting dogs? I've seen a video of European catfish
eating pigeons, pigeons go near the water to drink and voila the catfish like a crocodile snags them, and catfish don't have any teeth, what a hell of a way to go, slowly digested.
Surely if there were a god, then it is a psychic vampire that thrives off pain, suffering and negative emotions.
Mr. Farrar. Back where I lived in Michigan everyone loved Whitefish. All the restaurants served it. I lived 50 yrs. on Whitefish bay at the Eastern end of Lake Superior. Many Winters I speared fish through the thick ice on Superior. I would eat some of the catch in my shanty out on the ice, day or night. The Ojibway people, often called Ottawa, ate white fish there for millennia. My best friend for the last half century is a member of the White Earth band of the Ojibway. Winter of 1993 the temperature hit 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Gasoline engines refused to start. A couple general aviation airplanes fell out of the sky because their carburetor de-icer did not work. Winter of 1994 the snow was 7 feet deep on flat ground and on the ice. It took the national guard 14 days to dig out the town of fifteen thousand people. Those cold days are over now. But even deeper snow cover is in the future because a huge part of the eastern end of Superior no longer freezes up with ice. This causes more moisture to form in the atmosphere over the open water, and it falls as snow. Global warming is Liberal myth. Right?
In 1970 I underwent Arctic survival training. I had just built a fighter trench in the snow, lined it with pine boughs and was told to drop what I was doing and gather in the instructors shelter, it was a survival parachute with a fire circle in the center, We were no longer in training stage, but now in survival the temperature dropped to 52 degrees below zero.
A couple of year later I was involved in Acid Test III. I had familarized the Canadian Parachute Regiment with the C-141 ( I was a jump master), in the actual operation I jumped and landed in a 6 ft snow drift. I had to undress from my parka and and trousers. I was sweating at 40 below. the Drop Zone was a frozen lake, named Clear Lake. I couldn't even put on my snow shoes, we were all equipped with snow shoes, strapped to our side.
In the same operation, we had to have our vehicles prepped, they degreased the steering mechanisms, the ball joints, and had a special low temp lubricant in the engine, and yet driving off the C141, the first vehicle off, ran straight into a building, the steering gears had frozen up.
I know what cold is, and you are hardier soul than me. No way I would sit in a building on a lake fishing through a hole I cut in the ice.
Salted cod. Juan Caboto (John Cabot) reported seeing racks of cod sun drying on the shores of what turned out to be Canada or New Foundland. The natives did not sun dry cod, nor could their canoes even reach much less fish the Outer Banks.
The Portuguese were fishing the outer banks, long before Colombus and it was from them and the merchants of Bristol, like Richard Amerike, who had financed Juan (John) that he learned of land on the other side of the ocean.
Not so sure I could eat dry, salted cod. Maybe if really hungry. :)
I've heard it put as the tale of the Pike and the Minnows. The more freedom the Pike has to do what it wants (eat its tasty young), the less freedom for the minnows. This is the fundamental fallacy in the Citizen's United decision. It frees the Pikes to make the minnows nothing but prey.
Actually, the gist is from a quote: "freedom for the pike is death for the minnows" (Action, Lord, 1909)
Gefilte fish?
Ugh, slimy carp in a gelatin laced jar. Itried it once, never again, same with Bacalao, and that Norwegian dish Lutefisk, or Rakfisk. Ughh, you have to be raised on that stuff, to get it past your lips.
Some use pike. Before Lake Erie became completely polluted, pike everywhere. We had Northern Pike in our streams in Pennsyltucky.
Carp were so prevalent, that when the Indians had to change their name, I suggested the Cleveland Carps. Now the lake is overrun with Coho Salmon so the Cleveland Coho might be a better name.
Smelts and bacalao are on the menu in practically every restaurant in my home town. Oh ma ma zuma zuma.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWq8jafqYV0
I used to catch lots and lots of perch that were quite delicious in the finger lakes of NY state. They are not so plentiful now
At one point Erie was a dead lake. One tributary the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it caught on fire. However, the lake has been reclaimed and Coho were introduced.
Oh yes, I was six years old and living in Cleveland the last time that river burned. It made quite the impression on me. I moved to the mountains of NC in '96 and became a white-water raft guide working the waters of NC, TN, GA and WV for 15+ years. People would often ask how clean or polluted the rivers are and I'd always respond, "They're not catching on fire like they did when I was a kid!"
Eventually I did a little homework to verify my childhood memory and learned that the Cuyahoga had caught fire about a dozen times before. After further contemplation I theorized that passage of The Clean Water Act was made possible by the proliferation of television. I suspect that the last time the river burned it was televised unlike previous times when it was simply in black and white print on paper. Only when enough people could SEE the river burning there was sufficient support for regulation.
In those good old days the bald eagle was nearly extinct too. Those were the seeds that blossomed into environmental activism for so many of us. It's a pity how far we have wandered into the weedy thickets of digital distractions and a hopeful wonder how wildlife has rebounded. Here in western NC, the black bear population has exploded with careless people failing to properly manage their trash. The bears know the garbage day schedules and raid the cans where they snack on discarded fast processed foods laced with hormone disrupting compounds. As a result, the bear mature earlier and have become far more fertile. It's now quite common for a mother to have triplets and even quadruplets instead of just one or two. Most of us love the bear and we text one another when they pass through our neighborhood so children and pets are kept safe while we treasure the sight of those wonderful beasts. Many of us know of their presence by the barking of dogs which is subtly and distinctly different that the barking produced when pedestrians and pets pass by their properties.
Mr./Ms. Elementstew. When I was a boy in Holland ,Michigan I frequently caught 100 perch in an Hour from Lake Micihigan. I used hooks without barbs because the fish hit in such rapid succession it took too long to get them off a barbed hook and drop it back into the water. I squeezed the eggs out of the females into the water and this sent the fish into a feeding frenzy. The water was so clean I could peer twenty feet down into the lake and clearly see rocks and fish. Young people in Holland do not believe me when I tell them this. Fish now? Long gone. Water? All polluted and cloudy. How are the Finger Lakes currently? I have not been there in many years.
Is there anything more savory than a perch sauteed in butter with a pinch of salt and Pepper?
Hey Gerald,
It's Mr., Marshall E Johnston. The finger lakes are relatively well and fairly clean these days although the alewives have outcompeted the perch.
I'm in western NC these days although considering a move back to NY.
The old rust belt should be rehabilitated, imo. There is bountiful water there and an excess of great old residential architecture in need proper care. With climate change making other areas of our country more dangerous and untenable a rust belt revival seems logical.
Yes, perch is delicious
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Is pike even edible. It looks like it would taste horrible. By the way I can't get salmon past my lips, I have tried, I really have, but I wind up puking. Not good.
During the time of Henry VIII and earlier, Salmon was poor man's food, the food of serfs and freemen, because the rivers ran so thick with salmon you could catch them in a basket.
Chicken on the other hand was the food of Royals and nobility. Today it is just the opposite.
And I don't like Chicken either even the smell of it cooking makes me gag, not as bad as duck though.
Mr. Farrar. Northern Pike and Muskie are out-of-this-world tasty. The only problem is that the tails are filled with Y-shaped bones which stick in the teeth like tooth picks . Much more savory than Salmon, which is over-rated, in my opinion. Each to his own right? I have caught 4 foot Northerns and 6 foot Muskies in Ontario. A Feast for eight adults.
To each is own is correct. Salmon makes me gag, too strong a flavor, and not attractive, I tried fresh caught salmon roe, spit it out. I doubt that I would like Pike and Muskie (what ever that is)
I make hell of a ceviche with either shrimp or whitefish, lemon juice, salt, a tad of cilantro, habernos, (fresh), onion, chopped fine (actually put in a blender along with the juice salt, cilantro, habenero and a tomato
Only a habenero will do, it has a unique flavor, tried it once with jalapeno's and threw it out
Mr. Farrar. Muskie is Muskellunge, king of freshwater fish.
A Muskellunge eats anything ducks, geese, cormorants, beavers, otters hunting dogs, other Muskies, you name it, a Muskie will at least try to eat it, at least bite it.
You serious. A fish could eat a beaver, hunting dogs? I've seen a video of European catfish
eating pigeons, pigeons go near the water to drink and voila the catfish like a crocodile snags them, and catfish don't have any teeth, what a hell of a way to go, slowly digested.
Surely if there were a god, then it is a psychic vampire that thrives off pain, suffering and negative emotions.
Mr. Farrar. Back where I lived in Michigan everyone loved Whitefish. All the restaurants served it. I lived 50 yrs. on Whitefish bay at the Eastern end of Lake Superior. Many Winters I speared fish through the thick ice on Superior. I would eat some of the catch in my shanty out on the ice, day or night. The Ojibway people, often called Ottawa, ate white fish there for millennia. My best friend for the last half century is a member of the White Earth band of the Ojibway. Winter of 1993 the temperature hit 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero. Gasoline engines refused to start. A couple general aviation airplanes fell out of the sky because their carburetor de-icer did not work. Winter of 1994 the snow was 7 feet deep on flat ground and on the ice. It took the national guard 14 days to dig out the town of fifteen thousand people. Those cold days are over now. But even deeper snow cover is in the future because a huge part of the eastern end of Superior no longer freezes up with ice. This causes more moisture to form in the atmosphere over the open water, and it falls as snow. Global warming is Liberal myth. Right?
In 1970 I underwent Arctic survival training. I had just built a fighter trench in the snow, lined it with pine boughs and was told to drop what I was doing and gather in the instructors shelter, it was a survival parachute with a fire circle in the center, We were no longer in training stage, but now in survival the temperature dropped to 52 degrees below zero.
A couple of year later I was involved in Acid Test III. I had familarized the Canadian Parachute Regiment with the C-141 ( I was a jump master), in the actual operation I jumped and landed in a 6 ft snow drift. I had to undress from my parka and and trousers. I was sweating at 40 below. the Drop Zone was a frozen lake, named Clear Lake. I couldn't even put on my snow shoes, we were all equipped with snow shoes, strapped to our side.
In the same operation, we had to have our vehicles prepped, they degreased the steering mechanisms, the ball joints, and had a special low temp lubricant in the engine, and yet driving off the C141, the first vehicle off, ran straight into a building, the steering gears had frozen up.
I know what cold is, and you are hardier soul than me. No way I would sit in a building on a lake fishing through a hole I cut in the ice.
Louis Prima, Keeley Smith singing praises to bacalao.
Salted cod. Juan Caboto (John Cabot) reported seeing racks of cod sun drying on the shores of what turned out to be Canada or New Foundland. The natives did not sun dry cod, nor could their canoes even reach much less fish the Outer Banks.
The Portuguese were fishing the outer banks, long before Colombus and it was from them and the merchants of Bristol, like Richard Amerike, who had financed Juan (John) that he learned of land on the other side of the ocean.
Not so sure I could eat dry, salted cod. Maybe if really hungry. :)