Thanks, Paul. We've gotten the frozen Babylonia zeylanica...not especially tasty...at Li Ming's. I'm waiting for someone to market Laevistrombus canarium, the best-tasting, tenderest mollusk I've eaten.

David


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>From: "Callomon,Paul" <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Apr 19, 2014 12:03 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] conch'd out: new fishery laws for Busycon whelks
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>H-Mart is a chain of fairly upscale Korean food and housewares stores. They are distributed mainly in the northeast, but have stores in Texas and California:
>http://www.hmart.com/company_new/shop_main.asp
>You can easily pick up 20 species of mollusk there, either fresh or frozen.
>
>PC
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Kirsh
>Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 11:29 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] conch'd out: new fishery laws for Busycon whelks
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>Is H-Mart a national chain? We have something called Li Ming's Global Mart in Durham, which has had Ensis (delicious!) as well as many of the aforementioned.
>
>In Greensboro, there's Super-G market, with several varieties of Asian clams and other mollusks.
>
>Are either of these stores present in other parts of the US?
>
>David Kirsh
>Durham, NC
>
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>> On Apr 19, 2014, at 11:10 AM, Leslie Crnkovic <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> A few days ago at H-Mart here in Houston, and they had a huge pile of
>> live - mostly B. canaliculatus, with a few B. carica  mixed in.
>> Average size about 8".
>>
>> Leslie Crnkovic
>> San Jacinto College
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>> Of Callomon,Paul
>> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:01 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] conch'd out: new fishery laws for Busycon
>> whelks
>>
>> Large gastropods (such as Neptunea) feature in many northern Asian
>> cuisines, particularly those of Korea and coastal China. There's
>> definitely a market for them. My local Vietnamese fish seller in
>> Cherry Hill, NJ always has live "conch" (Busycon, probably from New Jersey) alongside frozen "whelk"
>> (Buccinum verkruezeni from Alaska, or B. undatum from eastern Canada);
>> down the street at H-Mart there's also canned and frozen Babylonia and
>> both places offer shrink-packed freshwater Cipangopaludina for the
>> stronger palate. (Last week H-Mart had some magnificent live Panopea
>> too; they always have farmed abalone, and the usual live Mytilus and Mercenaria).
>>
>> Paul Callomon
>> Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General
>> Invertebrates
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Conchologists List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
>> Of Steve Rosenthal
>> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:53 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [CONCH-L] conch'd out: new fishery laws for Busycon whelks
>>
>> Story in our local newspaper this week: for the first time ever, the
>> State Dept of Environmental Conservation is proposing size limits on
>> Busycon whelks taken commercially  in NY (and Connecticut may follow
>> the same). The whelks are apparently showing signs of being
>> overharvested, the new size limits would require shells to be over 3
>> inches in diameter, which is about
>> 5.5 inches long. Since New York's lobster population is pretty much
>> kaput, most of the fishermen still fishing have turned to whelks,
>> which fetch $2.60/pound wholesale according to the newspaper article.
>> (thats not far off from the lobster price in a good year, which seems
>> rather surprising, i know which one i would rather put on my table- at least to eat).
>>
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