Mantis shrimp?

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Re: Mantis shrimp?

Post by cobby » Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:46 pm

4liters wrote:
cobby wrote:
cheaterparts wrote:
A-a-ron wrote:Might have to give them a crack and see how they go. A tackle shop is raving about them for gummies but of course they want to sell bait to make some cash so you never know how thruthful they can be.
as Tim said many kayakers have been using then for some time -- check your pricing we were getting them from the Springvale market these food grade Mantis shrimp may work out cheaper
Almost everything sold in a tackle shop or servo is actually food grade, from the exact same sources as the fish mongers in most cases. It loses that food grading due to transport not having prime safe accreditation and the handling not to food safety standards. And in some cases the fish/crustacean hasn't been 'thawed for convenience' making them better quality if you don't use that item straight away. As for price, gotta cover the packaging and labor costs, but then again at times it can work out cheaper given the supply/demand fluctuations at both wholesale and retail level.

These shrimp are mostly from the same areas, prawn trawling bycatch in the northern half of the country
Having presumably worked with bait a fair bit do you have any idea what the difference is between the Australian sourced banana prawns and the puny little bait prawns you get from the tackle shops (apart from the size)? I could never work out the logic between giving 'bait' prawns the ok for use for fishing but asking people not to use food grade prawns.
Right, so the banana prawns are caught in the vicinity of the wsd outbreak, right around the top end, aswell as tigers etc. Because wsd has zero affect on humans the issue was effectively wiped as a non issue for those prawns, business as usual basically. Bait prawns caught in areas where wsd was found or within a certain radius were either discarded or irradiated. Those caught outside the area were deemed safe. Most of those are green school prawns caught in mid north Nsw hence the size difference and availability. Another used are coral prawns sourced from WA well away from wsd affected areas like the Logan valley. Both species are almost as expensive as the tigers and bananas, but in a greater and more consistent supply basis and are a smaller prawn species (you don't wanna know how often there's whinging over the size of a product, every product like its produced by a machine and not caught out of the ocean)

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Re: Mantis shrimp?

Post by cobby » Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:49 pm

A-a-ron wrote:Was given a price from a tackle shop $9.99 for roughly 15 per packet. For anyone who’s following the post. Seems like a pretty fair price.
Numbers vary depending on shrimp size in each pack. All packs are weighed to within 5gm of each other

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