Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/12

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Kippers and other smoked fish
From: langeratcarleton at gmail.com (Mark Langer)
Date: Thu Oct 12 06:25:46 2006
References: <200610112132.k9BLVXdV048234@server1.waverley.reid.org> <BE958550-F770-448B-914B-113884946A64@optonline.net>

So where does the smoked sturgeon at Zabars or Barney Greengrass come from?

On 10/11/06, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote:
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> I'm not much of a kipper fan but I love all forms of smoked salmon,
> gravlax and whitefish. Some of the best smoked fish in the world is
> made by the Hansen smokehouse on the Hudson River a few miles north
> of my house. Hansen (http://www.hansencaviar.com/) has been in
> business for over a century and a half and got its start smoking
> sturgeon. Sturgeon was once so plentiful in the Hudson estuary that
> it was called "Albany Beef" and served as a cheap staple food for
> Irish laborers who were building New York City. The Hansen site is
> interesting because it has century old pictures of the sturgeon
> fishery with 200 lb. fish stacked up like cordwood on the docks.
> Hudson River sturgeon caviar was said to rival the best Beluga
> caviar. I can't say for sure if this is correct but the few times
> I've sampled it, it was excellent. Barrels of caviar were exported to
> fish egg lovers in Europe. In the 1890s you could get a  big plate of
> caviar in Luchow's restaurant for five cents. Naturally the sturgeon
> were fished almost to extinction. All sturgeon fishing is now
> prohibited in the USA and the Hudson estuary fish are making a slow
> comeback - probably about 50 years before former levels are restored.
>
> A couple of years ago a former local commercial fisherman who does
> occasional maintenance jobs for us caught a pregnant sturgeon
> (illegally) in a snare. His father, one of the last caviar processing
> plant workers, declined to process the eggs into caviar saying "It's
> not worth the effort to treat only 30 lb.. of roe." The caviar lovers
> in the community were heartbroken. To keep on topic, I took some
> pictures of the dead sturgeon with a Leica IIIc with a 50 mm f3.5
> Elmar, a camera produced while the sturgeon fishery was active.
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> Larry Z
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Kippers and other smoked fish)