Fish
Bay scallops come
70 - 90 per pound
lean fish
have very little fat in their flesh; swordfish, haddock, cod, tilapia are examples
Sea scallops come
10 - 20 per pound
crabs
Alaskan king crab is the largest - north Pacific- Alaskan snow crab/spider crab precooked and frozen
oysters - mollusks
American/Eastern, European, Olympia-native to Pacific-Japanese, tiny- Pacific (Japanese) Chesapeake, Bluepoints
warm water scallops are called
Calico and come 70 - 110 per pound
Lobster - crustaceans
Maine have superior flavor and Spiny have small claws with the meat in the tail.
Clams - mollusk
Quahog-Atlantic Clams- littlenecks, topnecks, cherrystones, chowders
Fatty fish
______ ______ like salmon, anchovies, sardines , etc are good sources of EPA and DHA.
Slipper mobster, Lobsterette, and Squat lobster
all are claw-less and inferior in taste
pacific clams are from Manila
and Geo ducks are huge and tough
rock lobsters have no claws
and are sold as lobster tails
crustaceans
animals with hard outer skeleton, segmented bodies & jointed legs Mollusk
surf Clams
are 8 inches in diameter
scallops which are also mollusks
are almost always sold shucked - abductor muscle is the edible part
Ipswich
are soft shell clams
crayfish/crawfish
are the freshwater relatives of lobster
Squid - cephalopod
calamari has 10 tentacles - 2 are longer than the rest
Freshwater fish
catfish, perch, pike, talapia, trout, whitefish
Saltwater fish
flounder, halibut, sea bass grouper, cod, mackerel, snapper, salmon and swordfish
Kinds of mussels, which are mollusks also
green mussels - new Zealand & Thailand. Blue - Atlantic, farm raised. These have the fibrous beards
tomalley
is the green liver of crustaceans
soft shell crab
is the molting blue crab, harvested before new shell has hardened
coral
is the roe or eggs of crustaceans
example of crustaceans
lobsters, shrimp, crabs, and crayfish/crawfish
Octopus - cephalopod
mostly come from Portugal
stone crab
only claws are eaten
shrimp - crustaceans
only tail is eaten
Mollusks
oysters, clams, mussels, scallops, cephalopods
prawn
refers to a large freshwater shrimp
round fish
sea bass, bluefish, cod, grouper, porgy, snapper, and salmon. Fish with round, oval or compressed bodies that swim in a vertical position and have eyes on both sides of their heads.
classified by count per pound
shrimp comes 16 - 20, 31 - 40, and 51 - 60 per pound
Langoustines are marketed as rock shrip
small North Atlantic lobsters, resemble shrip but have a sweeter flavor
blue crab
small crab from east, 50% of all crabmeat harvested
miscellanous seafood
snails or escargots, conch, surimi, frog legs
flat fish
sole, flounder, halibut, turbot this fish has two eyes on the front part of the head ____fish swim horizontal position
Dungeness crab
sweet west coast crab
mollusk
unsegmented bodies with no internal skeleton, most have external hard shells -bivalves two shells, univalves one shell Cephalopods -single internal skeleton- head & foot