I agree, Ensis are delicious. There was a beach replenishment here on the
ocean beach a number of years ago (southern NJ is a peninsula) and at low
tide for a season or two, there were easily harvested Ensis available,
without worrying about quicksand or mud as is often found at low tide on the
Delaware Bay beaches on the opposite side of the Cape. My cousin brought
his kids to visit for Easter that year and we all collected Ensis at low
tide- a tasty preview to the dinner we had later.
Molluscan shopping is great at many Asian markets- I did a shell club talk
on that subject and was made to feel quite uncomfortable by street merchants
in NY Chinatown, for photographing iced piles of Babylonia, Ensis (which
they told me were from VA), Busycon, Tapes/Venerupis and others. I guessed
they may have thought I was an investigative reporter or from the Health
Dept. or Fish and Game.
I have been to H-Mart in Cherry Hill, NJ, as Paul mentioned- it is a
wonderful store with Asian food of several nationalities.
Sue Hobbs
Cape May, NJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Kirsh" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] conch'd out: new fishery laws for Busycon whelks
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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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