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SOME 6,000 LOBSTERS were seized by fishery authorities in Co Wexford during the week.
A large number of these were illegally caught.
A huge amount of effort goes into both sustainable fishing and the protection of these species, meaning this sort of discovery is massively unwelcome.
“The volume of such a find of undersize lobsters is both significant for the future viability of the fishery and concerning given the scale of the find,” Dr Susan Steele, chair of the Sea Fisheries Protection Agency, said.
That provided inspiration for today’s quiz. Without further ado…
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What’s the percentage increase of Lobster dinners one can have with a 16k rise on 124k ?
Whens the last time you had a Lobster dinner?
Never, I can only afford the pinch.
A quiz about how much your readers know about lobsters and prawns???? I know we’re all suffering from a touch of Covid fatigue and would appreciate a distraction and all but holy sh*tballs lads, of all the things to test us on. Lobsters, really????
@Barry Evans: didn’t you do well?
@Dave Thomas: I’m not affluent enough to eat lobster! Now if it had been a test about cod or mackerel…….
@Barry Evans: or sardines even!…
@Kate Flaherty: would the Journal manage 10 Sardine related questions? If anyone can they can
@Barry Evans: stick to eastenders lad
Got 7/10 – I’m not complaining :-)
@Barry Evans: I rather enjoyed that quiz, never knew dublin bay prawns were actually a form of lobster.
@Barry Evans: I only had it once & I didn’t like it at all to sweet or something, I’d much prefer a good auld prawn cocktail! ❤️
@Barry Evans: mmmm mackerel. Panfried fresh from the water. Nothing better. Wife hates when I buy fresh mackerel, but by god, it is tasty.
@Barry Evans: at least it’s not soccer.
@Stephen Deegan: fair point Stephen!
@Lukevic101: yes,and most of them come from the sth. Chiina sea,” Dublin Bay ” is only their species name, they dont have to come from there.
@Barry Evans: you don’t have to be affluent to Know about things or lobster even
@Barry Evans: 9/10
So that’s where Family Guy got the name for the town
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I know nothing on the topic. So decided to pick the second option through all the Qs. Got 5/10. Have done Journal.ie quizzes in the past on topics I thought I knew quite a bit and got less. There must be a moral in there somewhere. I just can’t quite work it out!!!
@Virus-free Turkey: moral: never try
What’s the difference between a lobster and a Chinese man who’s been run over by a bus?
One’s a crustacean, the other’s a crushed Asian.
@Paul Carew: I cannot testify for fear of banning.
@Paul Carew: Very funny!!!
Won’t lie lads, haven’t a clue about lobsters,so didn’t take the quiz! just skipped past everything to the comments section! I’m half steamed! Night all p.s auto correct is great
pretty sure the word they are looking for is “psych”
Any naming of poachers involved in the illegal smuggling?
I scored 9! Without guessing! Either I am a genius or a very boring nerd about shellfish.
@Patrick Brompton:
Your very shellfish.
@Patrick Brompton: me too, the Quahog ruined my chances of my first ten, raging!
@HuffnPuff: I fell at the same fence! I have heard of Quahogs in New England but never in Ireland. It was a trick question which caught us out.
@Patrick Brompton: same here, torpedoed my 10/10 chance. Devastated.
@Patrick Brompton: I also failed the quohog question. 9 out of 10
Is Jordan Peterson the person directing this quiz.
Tis getting confusing, thought it was going to be an article about the the claws of the new gov gravy train.
Just let them in the sea where they belong
Lobster is yummy but it’s such a mission to eat, too much effort!
Pass it along, we’ll bring our own hammers, sure what else would you be doing?
It’s got to be easier to tackle than periwinkles?
I prefere smoked cod not colley.
Don’t eat lobster often but boil it when I do. Didn’t have a pot big enough on hols last year and had to use the knife method. Lets just say it wasn’t as effective as the boiling water method… gruesome.
A real pain in the molluscs!
Very good! Enjoyed your banter in this one.
Thanks! Now I’m just hungry.
They’re crunchy
@Ciaran De Bhal: lol
Prawn again crustaceans..
Happy to let cod into my life!
@Fiona Fitzgerald:
Chipper in Lanzarote called “The Codfather”…
10/10………..don’t know how I feel about that tbh.
I prefer crab tbh much nicer flavour
Prawn again crustaceans.. 5/10
@Seymour business: lol, that went down well with couple of glasses of vino.
What a load of utter bill*x. Learn a pinch about the maritime industry in Ireland, I dare you. Embarrassing.
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