Looks good. send us some!

looks scrumptios!

off to red lobster tomorow for lunch!

Sorry...no can eat.  But I did something somewhat related to the story though recently. I was driving through New England last weekend to visit some friends.  I stopped by the local Stop & Shop and bought half a dozen live lobsters and then release them into a secluded part of the Long Island Sound.  I know that there are many arguments against releasing captive wildlife back into the wild.  But I don't agree with them.  Plus, these animals were wild caught and those waters are part of thier natural habitat. So no harm done.

great job AO.

Well done AO. You have a hearth of gold.

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One lobster to another: Isn't this place familiar.

The other lobster: You bet it is. We were here last week before that guy from Homeland Security deported us back.

Thank you Divaneh jaan.  I have dedicated most of my adult life to interacting, studying and helping animals.  The way I look at it, animals have dignity of life, just like humans.  Their life and their being must be respected.  As PETA syas, they are not ours to eat, experiment on, wear or use for entertainment.  The things that we do to these self-aware beings is just despicable.  Richard Dawkins said that a century from now, we will look at how we treated animals and realize how awful we were (are).  

PS- your lobster joks was funny.  I hope that those little guys that I released back in the water (I have done it many times in the past) are enjoying their lives.   

I fully agree AO jaan that we have absolutely no right to impose our will on these defenceless animals. It makes my blood boil to see people posing with gun next to their hunts. I recently had to tell someone that I didn't know and was only a friend of a friend on facebook off for posing with a gun although there was no dead animal at his feet. I avoid picking on people that I don't know but I thought if he thinks he has a right to take the life of a creature who enjoys the life, then I have the right to tell him off. He was much younger and took it nicely but why people don’t think that human community is disproportionally large and with so much technology at our disposal we can wipe out most species.

Very true Divaneh jaan.  I believe that animals are totally defenseless in their interactions with humans...totally defenseless.  And among these animals that we so callously use for anything from cruel medical research to fabric for our clothes, to entertainment, there's a sea of intelligence.  Trust me, this is what I do for a living, and every single day I become more amazed at the level of intelligence in the animal world, especially mammals.  In any event, speaking of hunting, check out this disgusting woman:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/why-killing-a-lion-is-the-most-cowardly-thing-you-can-do

Faramaz,

Have been in Dungeness many times enjoying crabs in the “3 Crabs Restaurant”, now closed, immensely.   They must be the biggest and the plumpest!

AO,

Although what you did was a great humanitarian gesture, releasing farmed fish, of any kind, into wild is dangerous and forbidden….since genetically their immune systems are different and one can contaminate the other.

In case of the salmon, wild salmons are protected against the farmed ones!

PJ - Relax dude, I do this for a living.  These lobsters are not farm raised.  They were caught off the waters of New England coast, within the territory in which I released them.  The slamon issue is totally different, and has many different angles, including chemicals used in their feed (farm raised ones), etc.  Although generally speaking, I am not totally against inter-mixing wild species with the same general makeup (not farm raised ones), for examplae, wild slamon from one part of the country to another.  Some people are against it.  I'm not--so long as the genetic markers are the same, because you're not altering the DNA and creating a new species (i.e., cross breeding bobcats and cougars, which craetes a new species--or the cross breeding of akhoonds with humans, which creates a new, violent human sub-species: the Lebanese and the Iranian Hezbollah). So, all is cool.