My dad grew up on a tiny rock(just a few square miles) in the Caribbean. He had to "raise" his fish pots every morning before school(primary school at that) to get fresh fish for breakfast and the day's lunch.
Fish was plentiful then and so was lobster. In fact the lobster was a nuisance because it would sometime get into their fish pots and they had little value to locals or people of the surrounding larger islands.
This one time he and his cousin caught a few in the pot and had them in him small row boat, his cousin forgot to carry a bale to bale out water from the boat.
There was a yacht anchored nearby and my dad went to ask for a container to bale out the water. The french owner of the yacht didn't have one so be opened a big can of baked bean, quickly tossed its content overboard and gave them the can.
My dad and his cousin could not believe what they had just witnessed; To them it was such a waste. Baked bean was something you get from the mainland and it was not easily affordable to them.
The french Yacht owner then asked if he could have a lobster and said that him and his wife loved it so much. My dad was taken by how the man spoke about his love for lobster and just gave him all they had in the boat.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
I grew up a fish snob living in the Caribbean unfortunately and most of the fish served in the U.S at chain restaurants(and even non chain restaurants) I would consider trash fish.
Fish was plentiful then and so was lobster. In fact the lobster was a nuisance because it would sometime get into their fish pots and they had little value to locals or people of the surrounding larger islands.
This one time he and his cousin caught a few in the pot and had them in him small row boat, his cousin forgot to carry a bale to bale out water from the boat. There was a yacht anchored nearby and my dad went to ask for a container to bale out the water. The french owner of the yacht didn't have one so be opened a big can of baked bean, quickly tossed its content overboard and gave them the can. My dad and his cousin could not believe what they had just witnessed; To them it was such a waste. Baked bean was something you get from the mainland and it was not easily affordable to them.
The french Yacht owner then asked if he could have a lobster and said that him and his wife loved it so much. My dad was taken by how the man spoke about his love for lobster and just gave him all they had in the boat. One man's trash is another man's treasure.
I grew up a fish snob living in the Caribbean unfortunately and most of the fish served in the U.S at chain restaurants(and even non chain restaurants) I would consider trash fish.