He then added fish in turn to each heap until the pile was exhausted. Chiefly families were given priority in distribution of the better or larger fish, and a family of greater numerical numbers might be given a few extra. The official distributor used his own judgment based on a thorough knowledge of the number and status of the various families.
No squabbling took place at the distribution, but persons who felt that they had not received their just due might nurse a grudge that flared into acts of hostility. The customary method of distribution is still carried out, and it is characteristic of Polynesian hospitality to give shares to resident Europeans even though they may not assist in the fishing operations.
Arts and Crafts of the Cook Island A greedy chief was Ha-la-e-a. Every day he visited the fleet of fishing canoes and took all the fish for himself and his retainers. Then he would hold a feast, carousing and often wantonly wasting the food. As for the fishermen, they were obliged to catch the fish without ever having any to take home to their families. Give me the fish! So the fishermen gathered together and prepared their canoes, looking after the nets, the bait, and whatever else was required for the expedition.
Bring me the fish! The chief looked about for help, but all the canoes had gone back to land. So perished Ha-la-e-a in the sea, surrounded by the objects of his greed. Pukui Folktales He would then help himself to any fish he fancied, often taking all the fish from one canoe and leaving the owner to go home hungry without any fish for his family.
When he sat down on their snare, they caught him by the testicles and pulled the rope tight, then speared him to death and threw his body into a cave Low Te Rangi Hiroa reports a similar Rarotongan story, where the punihsment is exile rather than death. A greedy chief would sit by a path and wait for fishermen to return; the passing fishermen were obliged to open their baskets and allow him to pick out the best fish. The people prepared to rise against him, but one of his leading mataiapo [district chief] conveyed a warning to him in a subtle manner.
He asked the chief to accompany him on a walk through the village to see his people; but as the two men approached each house, its door was closed against the chief. My advice is that you go before anything happens. Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands If you follow this advice, great benefits will come to you and your relations.
If a man said he was hungry, he must be fed. But a person who invoked this law of the king took care that he invoked it rightly, lest the punishment should be upon himself. If he invoked the kanawai only to rob another of food and provisions, then the burden of the punishment would rebound upon himself. The ideal of sharing the catch was not always the practice. But while secrecy and greed were not unheard of, the sharing of the catch was the norm.
A woman from seaward, wanting some medicinal plant, or some sugar cane perhaps, growing on the land of a relative living inland would take with her a basket of shellfish or some edible seaweed and would return with her stalks of cane and her medicinal plants.
Handy and Pukui 6. This interdependence of land and sea, embodying the ideal health and integrity of extended island families, is often represented in traditional Hawaiian stories by a pair of characters a mother and a son, a husband and a wife, a brother and a sister, two brothers , one living in the uplands and one living near the sea, sharing their products with each other. The punishment of stingy behavior is a common motif in traditional stories. Daily he went to the mountains to cut wood, gather plants, and do other chores.
As soon as he could, he hurried home and then out to sea to fish. His whole day was filled in and he had little time for his family, which was steadily increasing. This routine life continued until after the birth of his sixth child. On her way she felt peculiar and realized that another self was coming to her.
Halfway down she stopped and chanted, asking that the lower portion of her body be made stationary while the upper portion went to sea to fish. She then continued to the shore, where she stood and again chanted, telling her right eye to fly to the sea and bring certain fish, then to her left eye to fly in another direction and catch other fish.
After some time, she called her right eye to return. It fluttered back, bringing many fish. Later the left eye returned bringing more fish. These she divided into portions for her husband, children, and herself. Then she not only ate her share, but continued eating until only one fish remained. This she took home. When her husband saw this small catch, he naturally was disappointed.
For many consecutive times Keanahaki returned with only one fish, which greatly dissatisfied Keawe. You can also ask that the fish be gutted.
In October, Goethel moves away from these whole smaller fish and once again starts consuming groundfish. And most years, December brings Maine shrimp to his table. He laments that regulators shut down the —14 Maine shrimping season before it even started, so he did not get any shrimp in either his nets or on his plate. Anderson longs for Atlantic halibut, and Frampton would like to eat local smelts.
Scientists suspect the population of this bottom-dwelling, fang-mouthed fish has been depleted because they are often caught in trawls and gillnets as bycatch—unwanted species of fish caught along with the targeted fish. Since the s, Atlantic halibut stocks have been extremely low due to previous overfishing, and while the species is still caught regularly in Canada, here in New England fishermen do not go out with the express purpose of catching halibut.
Some is caught, though, as bycatch when fishermen are targeting other groundfish such as cod. Fishermen working in federal waters are allowed to land one halibut per trip.
The largest flatfish found in the Atlantic, caught halibut can weigh from 30 to 80 pounds. Smelts are small fish, topping out at about seven inches long, that have traditionally been an important winter catch in the saltwater mouths of rivers in New England. Scientists have tracked a decline in the local rainbow smelt populations over the last 20 years due in part to impeded access to natural spawning areas.
Smelts live in estuaries and offshore waters and spawn in shallow freshwater streams each spring. The smelt season was the worst on record. So there were very few local fish to be gutted and fried whole. Advanced Ichthyology Whiting, mackerel, and pollock may seem tame choices for fishermen who have ready access to all the wet and wonderful delicacies of the sea.
When pressed about tales of eating Anthony Bourdain-style exciting and bizarre seafoods, fishermen mention succulent cod cheeks, slippery sea urchin roe also called uni , and raw scallops.
The freezer seemed fine, and it was full of frozen pizza, ice cream and burritos. So, the guys turned to pop tarts, pickles, clam chowder, Oreos, and ice cream with chocolate sauce. They also foraged for just about anything in cans, boxed, or in the freezer. They had to eat, but now all they wondered was when the first case of food poisoning would hit.
It includes a stove, fridge, microwave, trash compactor and even a dishwasher. Neil Hillstrand does the cooking on board. Typical meals include turkey, spaghetti, steak and high carb meals. When interviewed, most of the deckhands do not prefer diverse foods.
Their staples on board are meat and potatoes meals. The ships load on plenty of fresh produce before they set out to fish, and they do eat it, but some hands admit that after the first week, the produce tends to rot. Once that happens, they revert to freezer food. The stuff that nobody likes much is usually left for last, and then they end up eating it for days.
When the crew gets hungry they need calories to work, and they need them quickly.
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