On Mar 6, 3:04 pm, Dan Logcher > wrote:
> Wilson wrote:
> > sometime in the recent past Musashi posted this:
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> >> "Dan Logcher" > wrote in message
> ...
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> >>> Musashi wrote:
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> >>>> "parrotheada1a" > wrote in message
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> ...
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> >>>>> The title is rather self explanatory. What kind of seafood is at it's
> >>>>> best now.....where you live? I'll not degrade people who live far away
>
> >>>> >from the ocean, given the considerable contribution of the jet
>
> >>>>> airplane.
>
> >>>> Japanese food stores in the NY area usually carry
> >>>> Anko (monkfish), Ankimo (Monkfish liver), Ama Ebi (red shrimp)
> >>>> and Shirako (Cod soft roe-the male oragans) from December
> >>>> through early March. They aren't on the shelves after April.
> >>>> These I believe are all from the US Northeast.
>
> >>> We still get ankimo until mid to late Spring, but then its gone
> >>> until Winter. Ama ebi we have almoist year round, but my guess is
> >>> its frozen, not fresh. Certain types are available from time to
> >>> time, like Boton ebi.
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> >>> I've only had Shirako a few times, and the second time was in Dec.
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> >>> --
> >>> Dan
>
> >> In Japan, winter is also the season for crab. You can buy Tarabagani
> >> (King
> >> crab), Zuwaigani (snowcrab)
> >> and Kegani (Hairy crab). The Japanese food store Mitsuwa in NJ carries
> >> crab
> >> during the winter as well
> >> but they are not "live" like the ones you can buy in Japanese fish
> >> markets.
> >> I know that San Francisco has Dungeness crabs, and the East Coast from
> >> Chesapeake Bay north to NJ/NY
> >> has blue crabs, both hard shell and in the spring, the soft shells.
> >> Do you have crabs in the fish stores in New England?
>
> >> M
>
> > The native crab that is regularly caught in Lobster traps in Maine are
> > the Jonah crab (Cancer borealis) which look similar the to Dungeness
> > crabs. The Jonah is the best tasting crab that I have ever eaten usually
> > in crab rolls or seafood stews.
>
> > Some fish markets carry the Jonah crabs up here, but never Blue crabs
> > which have no flavor by comparison unless you season them up.
>
> Yeah, Jonah crab are the orange colored ones.. I thought those were Rock crab.
>
> --
> Dan

Jonah & rock crab are usually the same species at the market. I can
get these mostly year round, they are usually the bycatch in lobster
traps. They are tough work though, picking crabmeat is a tedious task
at best.