Le bon traitement des homards...

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traiter les homards avec autant de soin que des oeufs...
avant de les mettre à la casserole....

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Handle your lobster like eggs, fishermen told

Tuesday, March 2, 2010
CBC News

A group of fishermen received some lessons last weekend in how to make sure
lobster survive the trip from the trap to the pot.

Speaking at a P.E.I. Fishermen's Association meeting last weekend, John
Garland, a senior biologist with Clearwater Seafoods, said up to 15 per cent
of the catch is lost due to rough handling. That would amount to millions of
dollars in losses.

"We always say to anyone who is handling a crate of lobsters, is to consider
that crate of lobsters similar to a crate of eggs, or even a crate of wine,"
said Garland.

"If you handle that box as roughly as you would to cause the eggs to crack,
or for a wine bottle to crack, then you're actually handling the lobsters
roughly as well."

Garland said even with gentle handling, lobsters are facing a tough time
when they are pulled out of the water.

"As soon as you take them out of the water, they have the force of gravity
that they've not experienced before," he said.

"If you have a fisherman then that is then also handling the lobster a
little rougher, if they're not placing it gently into a crate, but they're
dropping it into a crate, or sometimes throwing it into a crate, then [that
has] immediate repercussions on the health of the animal, and it degrades
the strength of the lobster over time."

Garland's message wasn't just for fishermen: buyers and processors also need
to be taking better care.

Laura Ramsay, a research and liaison officer with the PEIFA, said a meeting
involving fishermen, buyers, processors and scientists is coming in a few
weeks time, and she would like to use that meeting to get the message out to
all those groups.

"It may [be] through a workshop series, or it may be through some handouts
or posters," she said.

"We're going to explore all avenues and come up with the best method we
think possible to get the information out."

Everyone needs to be educated, said Ramsay, before the start of the spring
lobster season.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2010/03/02/pei-lobster-
handling-lesson-584.html