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Kona Kampachi. Zie ook: A ‘new’ fish from Hawaii is delighting chefs (Slideshow).

Fortune, The Wonder Fish:

“So just what is Kona Kampachi? Think of it as a more versatile cousin of hamachi. It’s not genetically engineered in any way, just well bred. It’s sashimi-grade and sustainably farmed without hormones or prophylactic antibiotics. It’s richer in omega-3 than just about anything else in the ocean and has no detectable mercury. It melts on your tongue, holds up on the grill, and is so rich in oils that it’ll fry in a pan without butter.

Pregnant women, nursing moms, young children: Eat as much as you want of what might just be the best-tasting fish you’ve ever had. Really. It’s that good.

Kona Blue calls its designer yellowtail the “fish of the future.” In truth, it’s more like a fish of the past. After all, sea life wasn’t always scarce or poisonous. But the cultivation does involve scientific and technological advancements. The most obvious example is the sea station. Sims helped modify submersible pens to make them flippable and therefore more easily cleaned. Every few weeks a net is raised, turned over, scrubbed, and dried in the Hawaiian sunshine. The company also regularly takes water and seabed samples beneath the pens and at various control sites, records the process with webcams, and posts the data and video online.”

Website: Kona Blue. Via Serious Eats, Kona Kampachi: The Wonder Fish.

‘Shipwreck timber littering coast’ (BBC). Photo: pip aka flipflop :) (idem)

Eric G. Wilson, In Praise of Melancholy. American culture’s overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a full life:

“I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am concerned that to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic, to settle for unrealistic abstractions that ignore concrete situations. I am finally fearful of our society’s efforts to expunge melancholia. Without the agitations of the soul, would all of our magnificently yearning towers topple? Would our heart-torn symphonies cease?

My fears grow out of my suspicion that the predominant form of American happiness breeds blandness. This kind of happiness appears to disregard the value of sadness. This brand of supposed joy, moreover, seems to foster an ignorance of life’s enduring and vital polarity between agony and ecstasy, dejection and ebullience. Trying to forget sadness and its integral place in the great rhythm of the cosmos, this sort of happiness insinuates that the blues are an aberrant state that should be cursed as weakness of will or removed with the help of a little pink pill.”

Gespeeld en genoten in 2007:
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‘Hauling up Joe Ahkivgaq’s whale’, by Jonathan Harris.

The Whale Hunt:

“In May 2007, I spent nine days living with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost settlement in the United States. “

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Tonijnvisserij bij Sicilië: Matanza, a photoset on Flickr. (88 foto’s - via)

2006: Beste Grüße.

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  “redesign of The Times Web site”
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  “It seems that researchers have discovered a way to make liquid droplets walk on their own in a controlled direction. Even uphill!”
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  “Een verse serie over vis met nieuws en sterke verhalen. Klootwijk vaart achter de vis aan, rookt een sprotje, vangt een inktvis, hangt kabeljauw te drogen aan de waslijn en pelt een garnaal. “
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Scott Peterman fotografeerde ijsvishutten in Maine. IJsvissen in een hut is, onder veel meer, een bijzondere aangelegenheid.
http://www.polarinertia.com/jan06/ice01.htm