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That's what I call Mussels!


I just love these guys! I'm a bit of a seafood nut and these Mussels grow everywhere on rocks around NZ beaches. I don't think picking shellfish fresh off the rocks, unfortunately you can get sick if you're not careful so I prefer to buy them from the Supermarket where they've been grown in farms. Sad but that's reality.

What kind of seafood grows where you live?

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local alien said…
I remember mussels in NZ supermarkets in a special container with running water and a reasonable price too.
We get oysters but a type from the seabed, cockles, and f course a couple whose names I do not know and I presume are not found downunder.
Shellfish is mostly eaten raw here or lightly bbqed with a squirt of lemon juice and a glass of ouzo
13 January 2018 at 19:45
Wayne said…
Our area is known for blue claw crabs. There's nothing like a freshly steamed bunch of crabs, a pitcher of beer, and god friends. I like mussels too!
14 January 2018 at 02:34
William Kendall said…
They make for a good photograph.
14 January 2018 at 05:01
carol l mck said…
Creative photo! I know ~ I wouldn't eat the mussels that are here on the rocks and beaches ~ Enjoy the farm ones ~

Happy Weekend to you,
A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
14 January 2018 at 11:19
Bill said…
They sure look good in the photo. I would buy in a store too just to be safe. We have mussels harvested here along with oysters. A variety of fish too, trout and salmon. I don't eat oysters, don't care for them. We have a fishman who sets up his little trailer on Thursdays. I buy from him when I want seafood.
14 January 2018 at 11:29
PerthDailyPhoto said…
Your mussels look tres photogenic Amy ☺ I live right on the coast so every kind of seafood is readily available. Sad to say that although I love white fish not so much the seafood!
15 January 2018 at 04:24
NatureFootstep said…
I think we have this kind of sweetwater mussels. But they are not common. And the colors seem to differ.
16 January 2018 at 00:33
Sallie (FullTime-Life) said…
We have eaten wild "caught" (scraped) mussels from the Pacific Coast in Oregon, but it has been a long time ago and now I am too lazy, but would rather buy them, like you. There are commercial oyster beds there and wild
Dungeness crabs to catch and clams on some beaches (but I hate digging clams). Here in Florida there are stone crabs and I guess that's all. We don't go crabbng or fishing here.
17 January 2018 at 12:35
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