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  • Tropical rock lobsters, or pearl lobsters, as they're better known, are one of the rarest and most expensive lobster varieties. The colorful crustaceans are so valuable that there have been international smuggling attempts of its larvae. Commercially bred pearl lobsters sell for about $50 per kilogram, while wild-caught pearl lobsters sell for $99 per kilogram. This makes pearl lobsters more than six times as expensive as Maine lobsters.
    So, what makes pearl lobsters so special? And why are they so expensive?
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  • @MrShanester117
    @MrShanester117 Год назад +7323

    The reason why it’s so expensive is the same reason why most things are “so expensive” you just have to say “this is special lobster and only special people can eat it.” And the customer says “I’m a special person. Here’s my wallet.”

    • @tongpoo8985
      @tongpoo8985 Год назад +402

      Its just supply and demand that set the price

    • @mandarinduck
      @mandarinduck Год назад +304

      @@tongpoo8985 marketing can affect demand

    • @tongpoo8985
      @tongpoo8985 Год назад +80

      @@mandarinduck yes but its not the only thing

    • @Levi22942
      @Levi22942 Год назад +100

      This is only partly true. It wouldn’t work for something that is easy access

    • @haruyanto8085
      @haruyanto8085 Год назад +40

      @@tongpoo8985 theres no demand if theres no market

  • @justayoutuber1906
    @justayoutuber1906 Год назад +6231

    100 years ago these "sea bugs" were considered trash. But so was blue fin tuna.

    • @lilpeanutish
      @lilpeanutish Год назад +418

      Depends where you're talking about. Lobster has always been a staple in many coastal communities for thousands of years.

    • @hydroaegis6658
      @hydroaegis6658 Год назад +530

      The rich and rich-wannabes will always eat rare food as a sign of status.

    • @restk8569
      @restk8569 Год назад +239

      You mean to colonizers?

    • @joelanderson8302
      @joelanderson8302 Год назад +17

      Wrong

    • @abitoferthang3788
      @abitoferthang3788 Год назад +206

      They feed them to prisoners cochroach of the sea they called them

  • @user-um7tw6kx4r6
    @user-um7tw6kx4r6 Год назад +1982

    The baby lobster was cute. These are really pretty as far as bottom feeders go.

    • @joop4123
      @joop4123 Год назад +20

      @@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 no its a lobster video

    • @bodyboys999
      @bodyboys999 Год назад +14

      @@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 gtfo

    • @Psi01
      @Psi01 Год назад +39

      @Repent and believe in Jesus Christ All hail the Lob Star! Let its celestial radiance shine upon thee and grant onto thee a crustaceous bounty from the sea.

    • @Sevenofnone
      @Sevenofnone Год назад +19

      My ex said the same thing about me 🥲

    • @residentflamingo115
      @residentflamingo115 Год назад +3

      @@Sevenofnone 🤨

  • @Youtuber24683
    @Youtuber24683 Год назад +946

    Never seen a Pearl Lobster before, so I thought that tiny clear larvae at the start was the specimen itself. In some ways, I think the larvae looks more exquisite than the adults.

    • @TheMushuCorner
      @TheMushuCorner Год назад +23

      @@Leviathan-mj8gi I was actually wondering what they tasted like so thanks for the comment. Interesting. I'm not a seafood fan, but that sounds extra gross. Sure are cool looking though.

    • @YWH32
      @YWH32 Год назад +7

      @@TheMushuCorner it taste just like similar to prawns but just a bit meatier,,, in my experience there’s nothing special about their taste i personally prefer the king crab meat over any special lobster…

    • @stoka4443
      @stoka4443 Год назад

      IF YOU DON'T STOP KILLING LIFE , LIFE WILL KILL YOU ALL

  • @charlie22403
    @charlie22403 Год назад +2141

    I've hand caught plenty of wild lobster in both examples and can say it's likely the marketing of the tropicals that has garnered the popularity. I've never been able to taste the difference between them. A healthy lobster will always taste the best. They are beautiful, prehistoric looking creatures.

    • @nahor88
      @nahor88 Год назад +114

      Our sight heavily impacts how we taste things. The spiny lobsters are more attractive than the Maine ones, so we think it must be "sweeter" or "more savory". It'd be interesting to do a blind taste test with regular people and see if they notice a difference.
      All said, King/snow crabs are definitively better than any lobster. I can get a couple lobster tails for about $10 at the right time of year, but crab legs are always heavy on the wallet, and deservedly so. They're literally seafood candy.

    • @jadedmonk7001
      @jadedmonk7001 Год назад +1

      Word

    • @jimbojones5083
      @jimbojones5083 Год назад +2

      @@nahor88 not really interesting I'll bet you 20 bucks when it comes to human behaviour it's it's pretty straight forward

    • @harryweston8456
      @harryweston8456 Год назад +28

      They all definitely have a different flavour and texture. It can also vary wildly between the individual lobster itself depending on where it is in its moulting stage and it’s reproductive cycle. These ornate lobsters are the worst tasting but they are just the most impressive to look at on the table which is why they are so expensive. If your ever in Australia try a southern rock lobster, they are the best eating and are the closest to crab

    • @alienandro
      @alienandro Год назад +5

      its actually the best as a healthy lobster but its actually different, like when you eat fish ex like tuna, tuna have different type, the one is more like moist and the other one is more dry meat. the lobster is the same too and actually any other meat that you eat is different from other meat that people eat in different country like australlian beef, wagyu beef(japanese beef), and others

  • @JosephTurcotte117
    @JosephTurcotte117 Год назад +1476

    Sounds like the standards are both ensuring supply and keeping the prices high, which is a balance. The supply can't become too high, or the price drops, which the rules help, but they must keep interest over long periods, so they raise the lobsters as well.

    • @Gunsforbuns
      @Gunsforbuns Год назад +22

      welcome to immoral sealife farming

    • @wallaceluna6241
      @wallaceluna6241 Год назад +17

      @@Gunsforbuns immoral? Do you go to the grocery store? If so you can’t speak on morals then lol

    • @Gunsforbuns
      @Gunsforbuns Год назад +16

      @@wallaceluna6241 i never said i dont buy farmed fish. Everyone in every first world country buys farmed goods, whether it be fish or not. My comment was about the fact that the only way to keep up with said demand is through immoral sealife farming.

    • @Superintendent_ChaImers
      @Superintendent_ChaImers Год назад +11

      @@Gunsforbuns Even if the stuff is being farmed. It's still not immoral with the prices charged. Farmed livestock of any kind, seafood or land based. You need to pay your workers their wages, you need to pay for the energy required to maintain the livestock, plus their food and the equipment.
      Then comes needing to pay your property taxes, maintainence. And to top it off. When you do finally harvest, you need to pay for the trucks and fuel to ship them out and insure that they do not die. Specially lobster and other shellfish as one dead lobster or crab that sits for too long can ruin the entire batch.

    • @NightmareCourtPictures
      @NightmareCourtPictures Год назад +13

      ​@@Superintendent_ChaImers think u missed the point made by guns. It's immoral because all that's being thought about, like in this comment, is money, rather than respecting the balance that nature has procured over thousands or millions of years. Little is cared for about the free-will of the lobsters themselves, or what impact it has on the ecosystem as we meddle around, farming them on a mass scale.
      The other point being made is that this immorality is just the cost of what it means being human (called the banality of evil), and that we in some sense have to do this commodified mass market slaughter of species in order to be privileged to be alive ourselves...nobody is exempt from that evil...that if you live in a 1st world country and shop at a grocery market, you are participating in that mass market slaughter to some causally disconnected degree. Humans know this but we simply ignore it because if we thought about just how terrible it is...well it would be hard to live with ourselves.
      You can imagine that if some super advanced alien race came to our planet tomorrow, and realized how tasty humans are...set up elaborate systems to breed us...our fate/destiny to become food by the time we reached maturity...it's an unsettling thought.

  • @Annatomova7
    @Annatomova7 Год назад +85

    The baby is freaking adorable! It looks like a tiny lobster Swarovski crystal 🥺🥺 ok even the adults are stunning with all their colors and patterns! Like wow 🤩 I want one as a pet now lol

    • @Annatomova7
      @Annatomova7 Год назад +1

      @@williamarmbruster3666 thank you xD I’ve had other people insult me for it lol.

    • @stoka4443
      @stoka4443 Год назад

      IF YOU DON'T STOP KILLING LIFE , LIFE WILL KILL YOU ALL

  • @Bkearing
    @Bkearing Год назад +378

    Like most spiny lobster, pearl lobster have a larval stage where they drift with the wind and current. For pearl lobster this stage is roughly 6 months so the source of Indonesia's lobster may be somewhere else in the Indo Pacific that's 6 months "upstream". Similarly, the Caribbean spiny lobster found in Florida that resemble Pearl Lobster likely came from parents on a reef in Central America.

    • @DeepValueOptions
      @DeepValueOptions Год назад +1

      "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
      LEO TOLSTOY
      @LEOTOLLLSTOY

    • @twt000
      @twt000 Год назад +1

      phyllosome larva

    • @chickenmadness1732
      @chickenmadness1732 Год назад +2

      If all the babies end up upstream. How come all the adults that made the babies are downstream lol. Presumably if you keep going downstream far enough there are no lobsters left to make more babies so where do they all come from haha.
      It would mean all the babies that spent 6 months floating to the other side of the ocean would have to walk back to the start to complete the cycle. Doesn't make sense.

    • @Bkearing
      @Bkearing Год назад +9

      Currents are complex, they'll loop around an ocean basin or fluctuate in strength seasonally. Storms and periods of sustained winds can also move water against the prevailing current. My point was simply that due to their long larval stage, managing lobster as a sustainable resource is quite complex since the parent population may not even be in the same country.

    • @Fuzzycat16
      @Fuzzycat16 Год назад

      @@chickenmadness1732 Some manage to stay and some end up floating away?

  • @Shaquielle
    @Shaquielle Год назад +56

    Give whoever did the thumbnail a raise, anyone else drawn in at the thought of glass looking lobsters ? 😅

  • @honestjoe7940
    @honestjoe7940 Год назад +55

    "It's so rare and beautiful I can't cope" CHUCKS IT IN A BOILING PAN!

  • @Psi01
    @Psi01 Год назад +68

    The pearl lobster. It's cute as a baby and gets great Wi-Fi signal strength as an adult. Truly an amazing creature.

    • @stoka4443
      @stoka4443 Год назад

      IF YOU DON'T STOP KILLING LIFE , LIFE WILL KILL YOU ALL

    • @muzzamilshehzad1133
      @muzzamilshehzad1133 8 месяцев назад +2

      The pearl lobster got 5G before the average iPhone user

  • @harryweston8456
    @harryweston8456 Год назад +493

    I dive for these commercially in Australia and they are the worst tasting lobster out of the 8 species we have here. Their flesh is tough and has a very strong flavour. The only reason they are the most valuable is because they are colourful and when they’re large their legs get very long so look impressive on a table. I’ve seen them be exported for upwards of $122 a kg and that’s what we get paid for them not what the customer is paying for them in china

    • @edwardtsen1
      @edwardtsen1 Год назад +31

      So which species is the best in your opinion? The standard red crayfish?

    • @yankat3724
      @yankat3724 Год назад +6

      Appreciate the insight 😍

    • @ye4us
      @ye4us Год назад +14

      which species is the tastiest then? That's all i care about

    • @miyamotohosaki
      @miyamotohosaki Год назад +21

      The tastiest imo is southern rock lobster.

    • @markvonschober6872
      @markvonschober6872 Год назад +10

      @@ye4usMaine lobster

  • @ee.som.o
    @ee.som.o Год назад +111

    I lost it at the cardboard box transportation

    • @shreddedguy679
      @shreddedguy679 Год назад +12

      same lmaoo, bro threw them in a box, taped it up and drove off into the horizon

  • @trinomial-nomenclature
    @trinomial-nomenclature Год назад +18

    It took me until the end of the video to realize the lobster's didn't have any claws.

    • @justayoutuber1906
      @justayoutuber1906 Год назад +2

      Warm water lobsters don't have claws. Same in Mexico, Florida, Caribbean, etc

    • @CoolGobyFish
      @CoolGobyFish Год назад +2

      it's a spiny lobster. the are a completely different family

  • @BaByBoyKay1
    @BaByBoyKay1 Год назад +1

    I love learning things like this!! 🔥

  • @mirnivoznik8536
    @mirnivoznik8536 Год назад +14

    I wish they would let them live!!

  • @NPCwars
    @NPCwars Год назад +79

    A few years ago I was told maine lobster was better because the cold-water made the meat sweeter.

    • @gill_rides7618
      @gill_rides7618 Год назад +4

      I've never had pearl lobster but I think the california spiny lobster is the best but maine is cheaper and in something like mac and cheese you will barely tell that its not the spiny lobster. I eat a lot of lobster cause I hunt for them as my favorite is a grilled california lobster

    • @MrAngenos
      @MrAngenos Год назад +3

      It whatever they want you to think to make you buy the “next best thing”

    • @mandingoduagi5283
      @mandingoduagi5283 Год назад +4

      maine lobster are not lobsters lmao they are freaking crayfish

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 Год назад

      This channel is full of constant BS.

    • @Blackpill149
      @Blackpill149 Год назад +1

      @@Leviathan-mj8gi crayfish can also live in land for short period of time but they mostly prefer muddy water

  • @IReapZz95
    @IReapZz95 Год назад +749

    people should go to the north of Spain and try the "bogavante", its like a lobster but its bigger and therefore has more meat, powerful and its also more tender

    • @savasava9923
      @savasava9923 Год назад +73

      False. Lobster size is bigger than bogavante and Lobster meat is usually softer and tastier than bogavante meat which is tougher.thats why people prefer lobster than bogavante.

    • @wisdomfox857
      @wisdomfox857 Год назад

      You really have no idea what your talking about

    • @DoktorBeta
      @DoktorBeta Год назад +68

      "bogavante" is just the spanish word for european lobster

    • @drummersnare6276
      @drummersnare6276 Год назад +15

      No thanks. Lobster here in the US is just fine

    • @kendaocripto
      @kendaocripto Год назад +83

      In Brazil, boga means As$h0le, and avante is like “go in”, so…

  • @ricodundun125
    @ricodundun125 Год назад +33

    leave dem bugs alone i swear we got to eat everything

    • @ricodundun125
      @ricodundun125 Год назад +2

      @@nhatmnguyen dets a bug ion care get out your feelings

    • @lucadascalu5727
      @lucadascalu5727 Год назад +1

      @@ricodundun125 but those bugs are yummy

    • @corona.o6380
      @corona.o6380 Год назад

      @@nhatmnguyen you’re right it’s not we’ll just let them eat them into extinction and then it’ll no longer be a decision it’ll be “that’s too bad, should’ve thought of that ahead of time”

  • @suchlag5891
    @suchlag5891 Год назад +80

    In short, pearl lobsters are so expensive because they taste good. 8 minutes of your life, saved.

    • @baizawai
      @baizawai Год назад +1

      Thank u

    • @ironpizza5150
      @ironpizza5150 Год назад +19

      No. Its because theyre rare. If it wasnt rare then other lobsters would then be considered "rare delicacies".

    • @cheddarsunchipsyes8144
      @cheddarsunchipsyes8144 Год назад +1

      @@ironpizza5150 exactly, so dumb

    • @gregd6706
      @gregd6706 Год назад +3

      No...5 seconds of my life wasted.

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 Год назад +2

      This channel hocks up crummy video after crummy video, all about how we should feel guilty that some people have no idea how to run their businesses. These clowns want government price controls on lobster. Jeebus.

  • @Marconi121
    @Marconi121 Год назад +9

    And yet still it is the bottom feeder of the ocean. 50 years ago lobster was a few bucks and prime tuna fillet went into cat food.

  • @jewcyk8268
    @jewcyk8268 Год назад +63

    Shoutout to Brody for bein able to eat these on the daily

  • @sweetbrown89
    @sweetbrown89 Год назад +17

    Whatever your opinion on the taste, it’s at least nice to see that Indonesians at least attempt to preserve the species and not just push them to extinction

    • @kilikilio5321
      @kilikilio5321 9 месяцев назад

      yeah we even have Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries go to jail because of curruption involving export lobster larvae

  • @9razzler9
    @9razzler9 Год назад +6

    i dunno why people pay so much for lobsters - they're scavengers.

  • @AngieJames4172
    @AngieJames4172 Год назад +110

    I would love to try Pearl Lobster. My favorite is Maine Lobster, it is much sweeter and more delicious than Rock Lobster. Any day of the week I will pay extra for Maine Lobster over Rock Lobster. I wonder if it is a similar comparison with the Pearl Lobster and Sand Lobster there? I also wish their government would stabilize the prices so the families can be supported.

    • @aguspurwanto5524
      @aguspurwanto5524 Год назад +2

      Visit Indonesia

    • @Noobixm-GGD
      @Noobixm-GGD Год назад +1

      Clawless lobsters lmao

    • @johnkovich8874
      @johnkovich8874 Год назад +1

      Yeah. Maine lobster 🦞 is sweeter than Brazilian lobster, that's for sure.

    • @RadenWA
      @RadenWA Год назад

      @@joeykoo3779 does taste play absolutely no role in food pricing? I guess you can eat $1 bland soup and plain bread everyday because what’s the point of paying more for food if they are all the same, right?

    • @liamzakhaev
      @liamzakhaev Год назад +3

      @@RadenWA I've tried most commercially available types of lobster, crabs and shrimp as well as other relatives which might not be commercially available in store.
      The differences in taste are minor, sure Lobster, Crab, Shrimp and Other™ taste different from each other, but the variations between them taste so goddamn similar that it literally is just marketing and prestige that drive the prices.

  • @sudstahgaming
    @sudstahgaming Год назад +4

    I'd rather see billions of lobsters swimming in the sea than on people's plates

  • @Kevincheesepizza
    @Kevincheesepizza Год назад +18

    What gets me is… yeah they cost SO much yet they pay these guys so little for their work… what a fair world we live in.

    • @amarissimus29
      @amarissimus29 Год назад +3

      We've all been waiting patiently for a month for you to fix it. What's the holdup?

    • @parthernnixxart4623
      @parthernnixxart4623 Год назад

      Yeah that’s been like that forever in the fishing industry. The Pay is terrible compared to The value of what they actually catch especially if it’s for a big industry.

    • @iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS
      @iNCoMpeTeNtplAyS 11 месяцев назад

      Don't forget that cost of import, cost of maintaining, cost of protection, cost of demand, cost of entry is what makes the end product so expensive.

  • @Lord_Pilaf
    @Lord_Pilaf Год назад +11

    Need to try this!

    • @monsieurzone6878
      @monsieurzone6878 Год назад

      Why lmao it’s way too expensive and isn’t worth

    • @ibrahimhassan711
      @ibrahimhassan711 Год назад

      @@monsieurzone6878 if he can afford it why not mind your business doubt he's using his rent money to buy it loool

    • @monsieurzone6878
      @monsieurzone6878 Год назад +1

      @@ibrahimhassan711 it’s a public forum wdym mind your business. All I did was ask why lmao

    • @ibrahimhassan711
      @ibrahimhassan711 Год назад +1

      @@monsieurzone6878 lool I mean mind your buisness as in don’t worry about how people want to spend their money. If you don’t want to fine none of your business if other want to.

  • @DM28907
    @DM28907 Год назад +116

    All Lobsters taste like Lobsters. It doesn’t matter the type. Unfortunately marketing to increase value can lead to a placebo affect where something is the best damn thing you’ve ever had in your life. Resulting in targeting vulnerable species.

    • @dsa2591
      @dsa2591 Год назад +8

      I recently started following a mediterranean diet. Knowing I live in FL, my son asked me what pink shrimp taste like. I said "They taste like shrimp." Honestly, I don't have a clue why people think they are so special. There are no pink shrimp being sold now due to the oil spill that killed so many of them and ruined their beds.

    • @mannedi8665
      @mannedi8665 Год назад +19

      If you are not used to eating different kind of lobsters and do not live in places where lobsters are abundant then yes all lobsters taste the same. Also all frozen lobsters would taste the same. Super fresh lobsters do not with the other kinds.

    • @asadabdullah4191
      @asadabdullah4191 Год назад

      You do not used to eat fresh wild caught lobsters right? So your opinion its irrelevant

    • @johndeleonardo9133
      @johndeleonardo9133 Год назад +2

      A spiney lobster tastes better then main lobster. But main lobster has more meat because of the claws.

    • @boarbot7829
      @boarbot7829 Год назад

      I’m sorry but I just don’t actually believe that.

  • @ansoriaan6641
    @ansoriaan6641 Год назад

    Wow.. amazing.. i like it 👍👍😍

  • @Technoanima
    @Technoanima Год назад +2

    That last guy is a legit lobster connoisseur.

  • @dro206NGM
    @dro206NGM Год назад +32

    There’s a huge pearl lobster farm in Oregon prices are great and they have the biggest indoor private farm I ever seen sanitary too instead of 100$ you can get em for 20-30$ and still delicious

    • @sandysand3484
      @sandysand3484 Год назад +2

      What’s it called? If you don’t mind sharing

    • @dspsblyuth
      @dspsblyuth Год назад +1

      What separates a sanitary lobster farm from an unsanitary one ?

    • @dspsblyuth
      @dspsblyuth Год назад +3

      @@sandysand3484 Pearligon Lobsters

    • @bensoncheung2801
      @bensoncheung2801 Год назад +3

      @@dspsblyuth I Googled the name, nothing.

    • @dspsblyuth
      @dspsblyuth Год назад +8

      @@bensoncheung2801 that’s probably because I made it up

  • @24934637
    @24934637 Год назад +11

    I much prefer my lobster to be 60+ years old, and swimming free in the sea where it belongs! Gorgeous creatures!

    • @liamzakhaev
      @liamzakhaev Год назад +1

      @@Leviathan-mj8gi "and swimming free in the sea where it belongs" he's saying he like lobsters to be left alone.

  • @Ishaanexperiences-oq1xi
    @Ishaanexperiences-oq1xi Год назад

    Best video for knowledge

  • @frankcoley1537
    @frankcoley1537 Год назад +3

    Why would ANYONE want to eat something that cool?

    • @mickzammit6794
      @mickzammit6794 Год назад

      So all other living creatures aren't considered cool in your view so it's cool to eat them? Your McDonalds Pattie was once a cow who loved her life and her calves.

  • @kamikazekhan2832
    @kamikazekhan2832 Год назад +2

    Living in places with good food like this everywhere must be nice it’s regular to them

  • @jujubeanzzz5413
    @jujubeanzzz5413 Год назад +2

    Did not know they existed. They're beautiful!

  • @pristinemirage
    @pristinemirage Год назад +2

    The person said the hardest part is when you choose a spot and nothing is there. Thats called fishing. Not saying that fishing isn't hard but it isn't anything mind blowing.

  • @therealchucktaylor3392
    @therealchucktaylor3392 Год назад +2

    Flies are a delicacy also 🤣🤣🤣

  • @MR3DDev
    @MR3DDev Год назад +3

    People: I will never eat the bugs
    Also People: here is $100 for an underwater insect that eats sea garbage.

  • @justincraig398
    @justincraig398 Год назад +28

    I bet it tastes the same lol. It’s just better looking , so people make it seem like it’s better to sell at higher prices

    • @kouvue7843
      @kouvue7843 Год назад +1

      but but, angus beef are from black cows and they more expensive

    • @_jacobCrume
      @_jacobCrume Год назад +6

      @@kouvue7843 Not quite. They are actually a different breed of cattle, and their black colour is only a small portion of their differences from other breeds. Also, beef primarily comes from bulls and heifers, not cows.
      Source: Kiwi beef farmer

    • @undeadmeats
      @undeadmeats Год назад +1

      @@_jacobCrume And because cattle are domesticated, different breeds have undergone selective breeding to concentrate different qualities from milk production to intramuscular fat percentage.
      Sea bugs are just seabugs and changes in flavor and meat are up to diet, water quality, and body chemistry.

    • @Blackpill149
      @Blackpill149 Год назад +1

      @@undeadmeats Sea bugs meat also changes taste in different type of water and diet

    • @abcddef2112
      @abcddef2112 Год назад

      @@_jacobCrume Yeah well lobsters are even more diverse, plenty of different species.

  • @marcfreeeman
    @marcfreeeman Год назад

    Nice!!!!

  • @Irokaj-backwards
    @Irokaj-backwards Год назад +1

    I wasn't looking at the screen because im eating and i understood nothing but i know the man is a smart one.....he comes from a civilized place that uses the metric system so he already earned my respect

  • @vulkan690
    @vulkan690 Год назад +8

    They are also in all of the Caribbean and gulf coast

    • @Drinksfromtap
      @Drinksfromtap Год назад

      Yeah, I was thinking it just looks like a regular ol’ spiny lobster with a slightly different shell.

  • @satyawidap.3449
    @satyawidap.3449 Год назад +7

    That is unsustainable practice, not long it will be gone from those location, especially in indonesia, no law to regulate the catch, and ppl there took all, whether small or female one

  • @SAMZIRRA
    @SAMZIRRA Год назад +93

    I always feel bad for the lobsters until the waiter brings garlic butter to the table

    • @DeepValueOptions
      @DeepValueOptions Год назад

      Rmenber lobsters can live longer than yoy and you eat them "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
      LEO TOLSTOY
      @LEOTOLLLSTOY

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 Год назад +1

      Newman: "Jambalaya!!!!"

    • @isaiahc8390
      @isaiahc8390 Год назад

      Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.

    • @karolinakuc4783
      @karolinakuc4783 9 месяцев назад

      ​​@@isaiahc8390I guess the person you wrote your comment to is not interested much in Christianity since God in old Testament forbid their people eating sea food

  • @Dakblasta
    @Dakblasta Год назад

    Wow they look really cool

  • @moyedon9959
    @moyedon9959 Год назад +17

    There goes another animal that will go instinct in a couple years

    • @gvshe996
      @gvshe996 Год назад

      Humans should go extinct

    • @GeneralPet
      @GeneralPet Год назад

      they are breeding it for profit. how's it gonna go extinct when they are making more of them?

  • @somerandomfella
    @somerandomfella Год назад +54

    Fun fact : Lobsters used to be fed to prisoners. They even protested to only be fed lobster twice a week.

    • @drummergeorge9642
      @drummergeorge9642 Год назад +2

      liar

    • @kevinnguyen9445
      @kevinnguyen9445 Год назад +14

      @@drummergeorge9642 it is true Drummergeorge, and prisoner back then were fed lobster from breakfast to dinner.

    • @jawesome548
      @jawesome548 Год назад +8

      @@drummergeorge9642 nah its true

    • @guardronerguy7122
      @guardronerguy7122 Год назад +3

      @@drummergeorge9642 times were different, not sure what happened but they once considered lobsters as cockroaches of the sea

    • @wallabywaysydney3576
      @wallabywaysydney3576 Год назад +10

      @@guardronerguy7122 that's cuz lobsters spoil fast when they die, and people didnt know that bsck then so the lobsters that were being fed to were just rotten trash

  • @j.gritters8319
    @j.gritters8319 Год назад +37

    The baby pearl lobsters are so precious & look like they are made of Crystals...!
    I could just stare at them all day.
    It's just sad to me (personal opinion) that us humans always have to seek out for the rarest, most often (without special interventions) resulting in their extinctions.

    • @isaiahc8390
      @isaiahc8390 Год назад

      Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.

    • @sapphiremoonstone939
      @sapphiremoonstone939 7 месяцев назад

      If I saw that in real life, I would smack it dead. It looks like silverfish insect 🐜 😅

  • @limemonster2295
    @limemonster2295 Год назад +1

    All things aside, these creatures look so cool!

  • @jamaljames2578
    @jamaljames2578 Год назад

    Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾

  • @rose_river_
    @rose_river_ Год назад +4

    To be honest, I'd never heard of pearl lobsters before watching this video. 😮

  • @YuYuYuna_
    @YuYuYuna_ Год назад +13

    That's awesome that they also take meaningful efforts to repopulate.

  • @alienatedaxis97doh44
    @alienatedaxis97doh44 Год назад

    Thanks

  • @boniworldwide
    @boniworldwide Год назад

    Looks good

  • @pauleywallnutz9429
    @pauleywallnutz9429 Год назад +30

    So a Kilogram is 2.2 pounds and commercial lobster is approximately $25/lb using the author's calculations at [$50/KG] making the pearl lobsters at [$50/lb]. TWICE as much as the commercial variety. Just curious as to how the factor 6X more came to be?
    Any mathematicians out there that can explain this arithmetical anomaly?
    No Jethroes please! lol.

    • @coryyoung7544
      @coryyoung7544 Год назад +6

      A normal lobster can cost 5$ to 25$ per pound and 1 million rupiah is 64$.
      Sounds a lil like they just winged it.

    • @pauleywallnutz9429
      @pauleywallnutz9429 Год назад +2

      @@coryyoung7544 Well, it still doesn't explain his math, since rupiahs weren't even mentioned in his opinion.
      IE: Commercially bred pearl lobsters sell for about $50 per kilogram, while wild-caught pearl lobsters sell for $99 per kilogram. This makes pearl lobsters more than six times as expensive as Maine lobsters.

    • @coryyoung7544
      @coryyoung7544 Год назад +2

      @@pauleywallnutz9429 one of the fisherman says each lobster can be worth 1-1.5 million rupiah $64-$96.
      They also might have been using the old numbers Maine lobster was selling for $8-$11 a pound last year It looks to be back up to $20-$25 though right now.
      Idk I can't actually tell you how they messed that up.

    • @pauleywallnutz9429
      @pauleywallnutz9429 Год назад +3

      @@coryyoung7544 No worries Cory. Just trying to make sense of the numbers is all. Thanks for your feedback!

  • @boarbot7829
    @boarbot7829 Год назад +16

    In the UK it is IMPOSSIBLE to find lobster for 17 dollars, (less than £15) per kilo. Definitely not 6 times more valuable.

  • @josephiudice8287
    @josephiudice8287 Год назад +1

    10 seconds in, Peter Griffin:
    ROCK LOBSTAH!!!

  • @cultofpluto4532
    @cultofpluto4532 8 дней назад +1

    So this is the lobster peter griffin was singing about

  • @pasta-and-heroin
    @pasta-and-heroin Год назад +8

    its interesting that the wild ones grow so much bigger & heavier than the captive ones; for most seafood, i thought the opposite was true

    • @s.y.4163
      @s.y.4163 Год назад +7

      More roaming, eating different types of food, and generally developing muscles being active would probably make the wild ones bigger.

    • @DylanDkoh
      @DylanDkoh 5 месяцев назад

      Different higher quality diet

  • @ediekoller1144
    @ediekoller1144 Год назад +3

    I love Maine Lobster, but I also love Scallops, Clams and Squid and Oysters. Not crazy about octopus. But rock cod, halibut, snapper and tuna are ok too.

  • @mwiingamweene4807
    @mwiingamweene4807 Год назад +1

    That Liverpool fan is proactive in life 😅

  • @cqpzg
    @cqpzg Год назад +1

    We were at the beach
    Everybody had matching towels
    Somebody went under a dock
    And there they saw a rock
    It wasn't a rock
    It was a rock lobster!

  • @mickzammit6794
    @mickzammit6794 Год назад +57

    In Australia it's called a painted crayfish and they're found in vast quantities in Torres Strait where they're caught by divers. If you live there long enough they aren't such a big deal as mudcrab tastes far superior.

    • @Rime388
      @Rime388 Год назад +13

      i mean according to you anyways

    • @mickzammit6794
      @mickzammit6794 Год назад +3

      @@Leviathan-mj8gi then you would feel the urge to relocate to my part of the world as nothing begins to compare with the taste of each of those crustaceans.

    • @bluemonstrosity259
      @bluemonstrosity259 Год назад +1

      A lobster is far easier to eat than a crab

    • @mickzammit6794
      @mickzammit6794 Год назад +2

      @@bluemonstrosity259 oooh man,that is so lazy

    • @yuu9258
      @yuu9258 Год назад

      ​@@mickzammit6794 laziness and seeking convenience is two different things. Would you prefer a bony fish over a meaty fish? That's an example.

  • @heyya7464
    @heyya7464 Год назад +30

    They’re only like 10$ per kg in Sri Lanka

  • @joesmith2398
    @joesmith2398 Год назад

    Finally now I understand the meaning of the song Rock Lobster!!

  • @ljb5163
    @ljb5163 Год назад +2

    I had mo idea that baby lobsters looked like that… I want one.

  • @sactownism
    @sactownism Год назад +22

    I remember paying $100 back in 2017 in Thailand. By far the most expensive meal I have ever paid for.

    • @dspsblyuth
      @dspsblyuth Год назад +39

      You got hosed for being a tourist. Locals down the road were probably eating the same thing as you for 50 cents

    • @HugeCockAndBalls
      @HugeCockAndBalls Год назад +4

      @@dspsblyuth yep

    • @davidyesayaf7015
      @davidyesayaf7015 Год назад +6

      @@dspsblyuth try and find me a 50 cent lobster and sell it to me, we’ll be millionaires in no time..

    • @yeahbuddy3258
      @yeahbuddy3258 Год назад +2

      Did you see any ladyboys? I hear there everywhere

    • @christinel5347
      @christinel5347 Год назад +7

      You over paid. They must be charging you tourist prices

  • @AnaphylacticKnock
    @AnaphylacticKnock Год назад +5

    We saw one of these while snorkeling and had no idea they were that valuable! My fiance got to close and he squared up. It is one of our favorite memories of the trip!

  • @stoneyll
    @stoneyll Год назад +2

    For the price tag, they better taste damn good~!

  • @youraveragephesh3173
    @youraveragephesh3173 Год назад +1

    The fact that I feel like it's too colorful to eat and is better in an aquarium makes me wanna scream out of anger.

  • @RandomBalo
    @RandomBalo Год назад +3

    They are expensive because someone convinced people that have money that they need to have it. They gave it a fancy name and tricked valuable cash out of gullible pockets. It's brilliant and good on them lol

  • @TheRealCaptainFreedom
    @TheRealCaptainFreedom Год назад +3

    It wasn’t a rock. IT WAS A ROCK LOBSTER!

  • @urielbaz7010
    @urielbaz7010 Год назад

    Not the fly at the beginning 😂

  • @trojanhorse7897
    @trojanhorse7897 Год назад +6

    Very Good Job, about 100 years the lobster will be extinct.

    • @altros
      @altros Год назад

      I am sure it will be a lot sooner than that, humans don't know the meaning of the word "moderation"

  • @boogaloo_weed
    @boogaloo_weed Год назад +3

    crazy how supply and demand works.

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 Год назад

      LOL, and these clowns want government price controls to save their business.

  • @dampnoodle
    @dampnoodle Год назад +1

    Gaaaah I want pearl lobster now. Sweet savory I haven't had that since I've had white crab

  • @mouryamk3986
    @mouryamk3986 Год назад +2

    Those lobster antennae and legs makes my skin crawl 😅😢

  • @ediekoller1144
    @ediekoller1144 Год назад +30

    I love all the seafood but I cannot afford it.

    • @edwardmarshall2035
      @edwardmarshall2035 Год назад +7

      Lobster isn't that good.

    • @theerealatm
      @theerealatm Год назад +12

      It's a literal roach of the sea.

    • @TheSunMoon
      @TheSunMoon Год назад +2

      Just get tiger prawns. Not too far off in taste. And far cheaper than lobsters

    • @hxhdfjifzirstc894
      @hxhdfjifzirstc894 Год назад

      Just buy a small piece of halibut once in a while. Or a small piece of whatever you like. It's cheaper than a burger combo at McDonalds.

    • @ediekoller1144
      @ediekoller1144 Год назад

      @@hxhdfjifzirstc894 I do not eat red meat anymore. Just fish, eggs and chicken.

  • @DwayneIsKing
    @DwayneIsKing Год назад +4

    "ROCK LOBSTA!"

  • @grassroot6229
    @grassroot6229 Год назад

    I always saw these while going to eat out at a seafood restaurant good to know

  • @peacefulscrimp5183
    @peacefulscrimp5183 Год назад +1

    Look how cute that baby is at the end of the video. 😃

  • @quantumaquatic1767
    @quantumaquatic1767 Год назад +10

    No way those are sweeter then a Maine lobster or Coldwater lobster lol. I've had many tropical lobsters and they all taste the same, meaty and not much flavor to them

    • @isaiahc8390
      @isaiahc8390 Год назад

      Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven, you must become a new creation and be born again by responding to the Holy Spirit. - Matthew 7:21-23, Revelation 3:15-16 cf. Hebrews 10:26-29. Pay close attention to your thoughts and how you respond to your inner monologue because it has a greater impact than you think. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life, and do all that you can to follow His ways.

    • @abcddef2112
      @abcddef2112 Год назад

      Haha westoid.

  • @rebeccareese73
    @rebeccareese73 Год назад +41

    i have always wanted a lobster as a pet

    • @Ewl24
      @Ewl24 Год назад +10

      You should look up Leon the Lobster then. The channel is Bradybrandwood, an he bought one from a grocery store, named it Leon, and kept it as a pet haha

    • @cheddarsunchipsyes8144
      @cheddarsunchipsyes8144 Год назад

      @@Ewl24 bruuuh I see that

    • @DivineDianne
      @DivineDianne Год назад

      try watching leon the lobster on youtube.

    • @mdakmaruzzaharybintalip-1787
      @mdakmaruzzaharybintalip-1787 Год назад

      get some fresh water crayfish

  • @KicksClique
    @KicksClique 8 месяцев назад

    Bless Abdul Casseem and Murdim, hard working men.

  • @donaldharlan3981
    @donaldharlan3981 Год назад

    good video

  • @Amocles
    @Amocles Год назад +7

    I can't believe it's normal for everybody to drop a living creature into a boiling pot of water or to die in such an excruciating way... It's like they don't even realize what they're doing like it doesn't matter...

    • @rafaelbermudez1406
      @rafaelbermudez1406 Год назад

      Well boiling them alive helps avoid you cooking it spoiled and I guess that's a good enough excuse. Idk I don't eat lobster

    • @Amocles
      @Amocles Год назад

      @@rafaelbermudez1406 it's just like picture this it's a Star Trek episode Data and Picard just get on board someone else's starship and there's this creature screaming in pain as the aliens drop it into a boiling vat of chemicals. It screams its eyes pop blood clouds up the water and starts bubbling along with the chemicals that was its doom... That wouldn't seem right would it?

  • @minxyayala
    @minxyayala Год назад +3

    If it weren't illegal to send them to another country, I would totally keep one as a pet. Their so pretty I would feel bad eating one.

    • @AidenNyte1
      @AidenNyte1 8 месяцев назад

      Feel bad for eating them, dont feel bad for keeping them prisoner. Makes sense

    • @minxyayala
      @minxyayala 8 месяцев назад

      @AidenNyte1 To be fair. If I could afford to get one of the most expensive lobsters in the world, l would also have the money to get him a 120 tank (at least) with all the plant life and food he needs to be at home.

  • @cheesecake4204
    @cheesecake4204 Год назад +2

    I would buy one, give him a big tank, and he would be my friend.

  • @plt7915
    @plt7915 Год назад

    I have seen these in port Blair, they look absolutely stunning.

  • @alrighty6898
    @alrighty6898 Год назад +5

    Lucky people getting to eat lobster everyday

    • @ollythomas6702
      @ollythomas6702 Год назад

      And yet 100 years ago you'd be described as anything but lucky if you were eating lobster every day. In fact, people even tried to hide the fact they were eating lobster. It was dirty and cheap and only for the poor. How times have changed..

    • @toolbaggers
      @toolbaggers Год назад +2

      @@ollythomas6702 They also didn't know how to eat them back then. You need to cook them when they are alive because dead lobsters spoil very quickly.

    • @boarbot7829
      @boarbot7829 Год назад +1

      @@ollythomas6702 everyone knows this at this point.

    • @ollythomas6702
      @ollythomas6702 Год назад

      @@boarbot7829 Aha, I'm sure absolutely everyone knows that..

    • @boarbot7829
      @boarbot7829 Год назад

      @@ollythomas6702 the comments are plagued pretty much with copy pastes of that fact.

  • @The-Hand
    @The-Hand Год назад +68

    literally been complaining about this to my parents because I ate too much and got to the point looking at another lobster would make me puke... you see it everywhere in Indonesia and it's hella cheap especially for people living outside Indonesia zzz now I'm craving for Maine Lobster rather than these pearl ones

    • @Suckmabalzz
      @Suckmabalzz Год назад +3

      yep lmao, my dad used to buy this thing in 10kg buik whenever he goes to borneo for some work lmao, but at that time i was so oblivious to it being a really expensive food and take it for granted.

    • @SerpentDragonZX
      @SerpentDragonZX Год назад +1

      I call bullshit on this "documentary" too. Thailand, everywhere. Not nearly as expensive as our New England ones. And the head is solid meat, the tail is more meat, and if you want, get a few shrimp as big as your forearm. Been like this for... The last 10 years I been going there.

    • @gameseeker6307
      @gameseeker6307 Год назад

      Variety is nice

    • @BoBo-pl3ww
      @BoBo-pl3ww Год назад

      @@SerpentDragonZX bruh why tf you got shrimp as big as your forearm. Yall about as weird as Ohio 💀

    • @SerpentDragonZX
      @SerpentDragonZX Год назад

      @@BoBo-pl3ww Cause I can... Can you? I'll get some rainbow lobster (pearl), shrimp, crabs, and everything else. Cause... I can.

  • @nicholasplesko533
    @nicholasplesko533 Год назад

    Alright you convinced me, I'm going to try some pearl lobster.

  • @hqguard2
    @hqguard2 Год назад +2

    Prices crashes, marketing video check ✅. Well played.

  • @CodingLabs
    @CodingLabs Год назад +21

    This farm was also documented in Best ever food review show.

  • @jerolvilladolid
    @jerolvilladolid Год назад +6

    I live in Philippines and this is the cheapest type of lobster found in our restaurants. While the red maine lobster is at least 5x more expensive here. And its frozen. I guess the price depends on where you are and where your food comes from

    • @akamput6451
      @akamput6451 Год назад

      What are you talking about? The best thing you can eat are either pag pag or balut lmao

    • @jerolvilladolid
      @jerolvilladolid Год назад +1

      @@akamput6451 balut needs to be raised. Pagpag needs to be fed chicken feed. Lobsters are simply caught already fully grown. Grow a brain for once, or have you never eaten anything other than trash food your whole life?

  • @milolouis
    @milolouis Год назад +1

    I think that cultivating lobsters and swimming about like that is my dream job.

    • @liamzakhaev
      @liamzakhaev Год назад

      Okay! imagine you raise stray kittens you find to sell to pet stores for an unlivable wage, only for the pet store to sell em for 6 times the amount they gave you, and the government put strict regulations on the size and number of kittens you can raise, do you see the issue?

  • @Gex121
    @Gex121 2 месяца назад

    Man I really love these videos. I just wish the subtitled pars was translated. Im too lazy

  • @CerealKiller669
    @CerealKiller669 Год назад +19

    they're sooo cuteeee 🥺 grab me my lemon & butter