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

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).
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on
> molluscs To leave this list, click on the following web link:
> http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=conch-l&A=1
> Type your email address and name in the appropriate box and click
> leave the list.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------------------
[log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on molluscs To leave this list, click on the following web link:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=conch-l&A=1
Type your email address and name in the appropriate box and click leave the list.
----------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------------------
[log in to unmask] - a forum for informal discussions on molluscs
To leave this list, click on the following web link:
http://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=conch-l&A=1
Type your email address and name in the appropriate box and
click leave the list.
----------------------------------------------------------------------