Miscellaneous Seafoods

A number of large and edible animals could be mustered for this section of the catalogue. There are the sea turtles, for example, of which several species enter our area. But I have left these out, for various reasons, not least the practical one that one does not find them in fish shops nor catch a specimen while having a holiday at the coast. Moreover, the sea turtles are mostly global in their distribution, and have been described in another book of mine, Seafood of South-East Asia, where they sit more suitably (South-East Asia being a region where they are plentiful and more in use as food). It was a tempting idea to include the diamond-back terrapin of the eastern seaboard of the United States; but this is a creature of the salt marshes rather than the sea.