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To: CheyennePress
>>>The animal’s legs are considered a delicacy and fetch top dollar in Japan and America. Even in Oslo, consumers pay around 200 Norwegian kronor (£15) a pound<<<

>>>some photographs of the ocean floor in Kirkenes in northern Norway show a writhing mass of the ugly, spiny animals. <<<

Okay, there is some serious disconnect here.

The disconnect is the government won't allow any serious harvesting of the scruptious pests. Hence the impact on the crab population is negligeable and the price stays sky-high.

37 posted on 10/20/2007 7:38:07 PM PDT by gitmo (From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
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Paging Sig Hanson and the Crew of the Northwestern, Boy’s we have crab to catch.


41 posted on 10/20/2007 7:42:18 PM PDT by troy McClure
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