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As an extremely adapted predator, you use your oddly shaped head to increase your ability to find prey. Your eyes and nostrils are located on both ends of your hammer shaped head. Your vertebrae are especially designed for quick turns and maneuvering. Ranging in size from 3 feet to 20 feet long, you can weigh up to 1,000lbs. You feed on fish, crustaceans and especially enjoy eating rays. You prefer warm temperate and tropical water, and can be found swimming along coastlines and continental shelves in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Mediterranean and Black Seas. You may even catch a tan while swimming in shallow waters. During the day you often swim in large schools, sometimes containing more than 100 fellow hammerheads, but prefer to hunt alone at night.
As true with most shark species, you are in danger of becoming extinct. Highly sought after, your fins are considered an expensive delicacy (used to make shark fin soup), your liver oil is often used to make vitamins, and your skin is use to make leather. While people are not legally permitted to catch you, you are often caught by longlines and driftnets, and rarely make it out alive.
This was from a few years ago, but it relates to today as well. It is a late instar monarch caterpillar (Danaus plexippus) about 10 of which Johann raised as a summer project. The hardest part was finding their food. The caterpillars eat milkweeds, which, being weeds, most people get rid of. We found it only in two locations in all of the general Mystic area – a cemetery and behind one of the old factories.
Ever hear of a book called Miss Rumphius? A lady who traveled he world, then came home to Maine and sowed lupine seeds all over the countryside as she took her daily walks. Well, we are seeding all the semi-wild spots we can find with a mix of native flowers (many of which are considered weeds) essential to local insect and bird populations, including native milkweeds.
My family loves Lobster, especially Mom and me. Whenever they come east to visit there is one meal we know we will always have… lobster. Now there is a great way to support independent lobstermen and women – buy a trap or a share of a trap direct from from. Sea Notes has a great piece about the growing community supported fisheries movement.
From Maine to California, it’s possible to connect directly with the folks going out each day to catch fresh, seasonal seafood. You get a fresher product from someone you know. The folks on the boat get a better price for their catch. Fishing communities stay alive and healthy, rather than withering away into ‘colorful’ remnants on a once-thriving waterfront.
You can, for example, buy a year’s catch from a Maine lobster trap for $2,995 — with the average catch around 150 lobsters a year. Or you can buy a share of the catch for just $249, with the guarantee of ‘a gourmet lobster feast for 4′ from the lobstermen with the Catch a Piece of Maine partnership.
In this area you can still see a number of small family operated lobster boats out on the sound, but more and more they are disappearing. Fortunately there are some restaurants here that support the local fishermen especially during the tourist season, offering only, or at least predominantly, local caught scallops and lobster. My question is where can I buy a share of an oyster farm. mmmm… raw oysters.
? A lady who traveled he world, then came home to Maine and sowed lupine seeds all over the countryside as she took her daily walks. Well, we are seeding all the semi-wild spots we can find with a mix of native flowers (many of which are considered weeds) essential to local insect and bird populations, including native milkweeds.
