Summary of Spring 2009 Meeting - ASMFC

[Clammer]

Yeah Eddie ;;

Blue Blood ;;

Lobster men don,t use the eelers do /

Blount use to payus .25 each .

one digger I know had 800 one night .

I saw a show on TV .. it wasn,t Woods Hole /But someplace in the Carolina,s .
A large company that was extracting the blood ..

It was 85% automated ... they were run on a conveyer belt . setup in a harness a certaim way .. the needle was automated to get the vile of blood out & the crab went down the belt & was dropped in a tank . they were trying to keep the death rate low / but even with that care , they admitted there was some loss ;;

They has already inviewed fisherman that were being put out of business / because someplace down south . that is a large part of their income . Then they inviewed fisherman that use them for bait & how they {??} are trying to comeup with a manmade bait to replace the crab // it was in the testing stage , but the results as of then >were not what they had hoped for ;;

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