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Fish Talk / Edible jellyfish
« on: September 23, 2019, 08:32:20 AM »
Does anyone know if local jellyfish are edible? Specifically thinking about sea nettles (Chrysoara fuscescens) and moon jellies (Aurelia labiata). Their west Pacific cousins (C. pacifica and A. aurita) are edible, at least according to Google, and I’m tempted to play around with recipes as long as I know I’m not going to kill or seriously injure myself.
And on the off chance any of you have cooked local jellies before, is the trick just a fresh water bath to discharge the nematocysts followed by removal of the tentacles? Or is there another trick to it?
EDIT: Just wanted to round this out in case anyone else is interested. I was looking back through the regs for some other info on inverts, and it looks like recreational take of jellyfish is prohibited in CA:
“Except where prohibited within state marine reserves, state marine parks, state marine conservation areas, or other special closures only the following may be taken: red abalone, limpets, moon snails, turban snails, chiones, clams, cockles, mussels, rock scallops, native oysters, octopuses, squid, crabs, lobsters, shrimp, sand dollars, sea urchins and worms except that no worms may be taken in any mussel bed, unless taken incidental to the harvesting of mussels.”
And on the off chance any of you have cooked local jellies before, is the trick just a fresh water bath to discharge the nematocysts followed by removal of the tentacles? Or is there another trick to it?
EDIT: Just wanted to round this out in case anyone else is interested. I was looking back through the regs for some other info on inverts, and it looks like recreational take of jellyfish is prohibited in CA:
“Except where prohibited within state marine reserves, state marine parks, state marine conservation areas, or other special closures only the following may be taken: red abalone, limpets, moon snails, turban snails, chiones, clams, cockles, mussels, rock scallops, native oysters, octopuses, squid, crabs, lobsters, shrimp, sand dollars, sea urchins and worms except that no worms may be taken in any mussel bed, unless taken incidental to the harvesting of mussels.”