was on an island in the south pacific. he ate at least 3 maximas, i think that’s waht they were. looked like that. “sweet” was the description of the raw one and “really delicious” for the coconut cooked ones. expensive meal.
Hahaha, I’ll have to see if I can catch that episode…Is that Bear Grills or the other guy?
the other guy, Les, with the hand held camera and no crew. like Bears better, but Les ain’t bad, and seems that ianh is a ‘survivorman’ too, mr. deercycle.
Oh Yeah, that is one of the early episodes from a couple years ago. good show. I watch both those guys. and now a new one called MAN TRACKER on USA channel 25. The ultimate game of Cops and Robbers.
Actually, Giant clams are a food staple out in the south pacific islands. Like Conche in the Caribean.
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Actually, Giant clams are a food staple out in the south pacific islands. [/quote]
Quite true Ken. If anybody looks into it, almost all of the clam farms that produce clams for the hobby sell the ones that aren’t as colorful to locals as dinner. All part of a good business plan. Having a secondary market for whatever you produce.
Yup, hungry people is the number one cause of the great Giant Clam shortage out there. If you take boat trips through the Caribean, to the small back water islands, you will usually find a very large pile of giant Conch shells piled in the water next to the cleaning station at the end of the fishing pier. all with one neat little 1 inch hole hammered into the pointy end. So as the islanders can make conch chowder, conch steak, conch fritters, conch salad, conch cervice… all kinds of ways to eat conch . and all very good too, I might add.
Im sure they have similar piles of big old clam shells on those south pacific islands too. Reef islands have lots of food to survive on, if you know how to catch em and harvest em. but the atol islands without a jungle are mors sparce. and most of all, no fresh water. Its hot out there in the sun, on the water.
anyone watching the Wild Pacific episodes on Discovery? we recorded it in HD and some of the Atolls, lagoons, barrier reefs… wow!
and one island had a reef almost 90% giant Clams. it was spectacular
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anyone watching the Wild Pacific episodes on Discovery? we recorded it in HD and some of the Atolls, lagoons, barrier reefs… wow!
and one island had a reef almost 90% giant Clams. it was spectacular[/quote]
the shots with all of the clams is from one of the only examples left a pristine pacfic reef very sad…theres an artcile in national geographic all about it from 2 months ago…i still have to make it down to australia to dive the great barrier reef before its destroyed
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I was watching it last night - they had a whole segment about coral farmers down in Figi (I think) and how they are fragging from the thriving reefs, growing the frags out on frag racks in the shallows and are replanting reefs that have previously died off.
Of course if you watch the segment and know what you’re watching you’ll notice a couple of things (aside from the fact they refer to it as “Reef Gardening”). The frags they are re-planting are smaller then the frags they show being pulled form the frag rack. They talk about “tieing” frags to ceramic plugs but I’ve yet to notice any string (but the telltale superglue glob is visible). Some of the guys in the segment look remarkably like the guys from Dr. Macs web site.
we haven’t made it that far in the series yet. we watched all of the first and part of the second. Dr. Mac has a partnership/sponsor of a coral Farm/replenishment site in the islands.i think the article is on his website, they were doing exactly what you said taking frags from the reefs and replanting them elsewhere some not to be aquafarmed.
yeah, but if you paid attention you would have seen they had phenominal growth rates of those 1 inch frags. in two years they were 50-60 or more branches that size, that made that many frags to transplant. their time lapse photos showed those things growing like crazy. Good water, good flow, good light and good food.
Uhh Dr. Mac has ties with local coral farmers in the Solomon Islands.
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Uhh Dr. Mac has ties with local coral farmers in the Solomon Islands. [/quote]
hence why i said islands and not specific b/c i didnt remember. but they are propagating reefs as are those people, maybe not in the same exact way but at least he helping do something
somehow the thread got HJack ed from survivorman to wild pacific to dr mac. good job!! well done!!
thanks, glad you noticed PBJ!
sorry,
/hijack
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somehow the thread got HJack ed from survivorman to wild pacific to dr mac. good job!! well done!![/quote]
we try YahoO
I noticed the growth rate, and wasn’t really knocking them about anything, just mkaing a funny.
I thought it was really cool to see a giant frag rack in the middle of the south pacific.
actually, Les Stroud did a couple south pacific survival shows from uninhabited islands. One cast adrift in a rubber raft, and one as a marooned scuba diver. The sad part is every one of those deserted islands were strewn with man made trash, plastic and stuff that washed up, or tin cans and junk left by poachers. even way up in alaska too.
the Pacific Gyres collect all the stuff that flows down our rivers out to sea.