Shrimp: The Endless Quest for Pink Gold by Jack Rudloe;Anne Rudloe

Author:Jack Rudloe;Anne Rudloe
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780137009725
Publisher: IB Dave's Library
Published: 2009-12-18T08:00:00+00:00

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SHRIMP: THE ENDLESS QUEST FOR PINK GOLD

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Northern pink shrimp

Courtesy of Greg Jensen

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Looking at these daggers and remembering stories of people who were stuck by them and got infected, we gingerly placed the shrimp in the glass tank, trying not to get stuck. It was hard to tell the species, as they all looked alike. Only a specialist could tell the difference. The prawn’s legs were like candy cane stripes, while the coon-striped shrimp had white spots on their abdomens. A few soft-shell shrimp were in the catch, which meant we wouldn’t have to shell them before eating them. When a prawn or shrimp gets ready to molt, it grabs onto a rock, and in thirty seconds it rolls out of its shell. The empty shell looks like cellophane.

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