U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial lobster

Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by dubcanada on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:01PM (#39057771)

It's not exactly a staple food for you, is what you mean.

I know plenty of people in fishing communities that eat lobster at the same rate you may eat hamburgers or pasta. One of my close friends growing up had a lobster fisherman father, and they ate it once a day. That and deer/moose meat was the staple food.

Edit: The goal of this comment was not to say that this is incorrect, I am for this change. My goal was just to say I feel there are places where it is staple. That's it.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by chaxor on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:10PM (#39057911)

Surely you see that Amiga OS is not a popular operating system, even if the creator used it daily.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by Der_Einzige on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:20PM (#39058077)

Amiga, much like the lobster, is criminally underrated.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by autoexec on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:16PM (#39064004)

Lobsters are overrated. They're bottom-feeders that in the US were originally only considered food fit for slaves, prisoners, and pigs, or as bait and fertilizer. Lobsters are intelligent creatures that feel pain. The way lobsters are boiled alive and kept starving in tanks at grocery stores and restaurants is gross. Also they're ugly.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by hungariantoast on Saturday January 20, 2024 @02:08AM (#39065394)

This is the weirdest mix of repping for lobster's rights but still shitting on them at the same time. Has real "we should euthanize all the pugs" energy but honestly I'm here for it

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by voisin on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:07PM (#39057855)

Ok, but this has to be a pretty small minority, right? What percentage (or absolute numbers) of people do you think eat lobster daily, or even weekly?

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by dubcanada on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:16PM (#39058006)

I guess the real question is how many people matter. Is it 1 million that we care about? 50k? 10k?

Lobster is a food item, just because it is now treated as a special food item on special occasions does not mean everyone does.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by beambot on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:20PM (#39058085)

In the context of sustainable lobster populations, total consumption is the only metric that matters -- not distribution of consumption frequency.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by BobaFloutist on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:08PM (#39057866)

I think they mean it's not a staple food for the population as a whole.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by dubcanada on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:11PM (#39057938)

I agree, it's a small amount. But you can't paint broad strokes like that. What we consider staple foods is completely different then China, Africa... The world is much larger then Canada and US.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by jjulius on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:14PM (#39057969)

Do you agree or disagree with the following sentence?

Lobster is not a staple food for the majority of the world's population.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by dubcanada on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:28PM (#39058192)

I agree.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by marssaxman on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:54PM (#39058686)

Is there any food, I wonder, which is a staple for the majority of the world's population?

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by asadotzler on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:31PM (#39059941)

yes. rice (70% of people consuming as a staple food.) wheat. corn. potatoes. maybe cassava too.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by marssaxman on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:42PM (#39060097)

I thought rice must be the most likely, but wasn't sure where to look it up.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by rarafael on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:47PM (#39059365)

I think the biggest contenders are chicken and bread

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by hamandcheese on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:18PM (#39058047)

I suspect that as long as one's father remains a lobster fisherman, one will have lobster daily.

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Re:U.S. moves to increase minimum legal size of commercial l... by tekla on Friday January 19, 2024 @12:09PM (#39057902)

I would hope that people who treat lobster as a staple food might appreciate what happens when the stocks collapse.

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