Just hang around at the harbors around 5pm and it is easy to meet fishermen bringing their catches in. Talked to a few fishermen, most are taking lobsters and crabs from pots, crayfish from net, and line caught pollock.
It is actually the first time I see crayfish in Europe. Apparently fishermen here bring them in regularly, in much less quantity than lobster, and get much higher price for them. I bought 2 to try, at double the price of lobster, Euro 50 for 2, each 1kg.
After more chatting with the fisherman, got a few crabs thrown in for free, since no one like crab here and sell at very low price. He also mentioned that there were big spider crabs but since they are pay such low price for them, he let them free!
Chatted with another fisherman who got pollock, his crayfish and lobsters were sold to middleman and sent to China, now I know where the good stuffs are gone, great pity the Irish do not like seafood enough.
Cooked crayfish in water for around 15 minutes, big surprise, the shell is less thick than lobster, hence you got more meat inside. The meat is more tender and sweeter than lobster, and every legs is full of meat, sweet and can come out easily in a whole piece, the flavor reminded me of snow crabs in Japan. It is worth the higher price.
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| crayfish |
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| crayfish omlette |
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| brown crab |
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| pollock |
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| seared crayfish tail |
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| squid roe, got caught in net and released |
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