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Jonathan Stramaglia

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

stories that come out of this guy's doing this dude's doing this but now there's so many regulations and things like that you have you know fda non-stop or the local government in that's always checking stuff checking species things like that so that really cut it down which is great probably good yeah you don't you know there's things people mislabeling things so that that cut all that down which is really good yeah yeah i know some people are against regulation but i think for something like this it's good

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

Yeah, you have to, especially in today's day and age, you got to.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

Yeah, so lobsters are another one that are just tight.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

And all the hard shell, a lot of them go to Asia.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

So they fly them.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

They want the Canadian or Maine hard shells.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

And they'll pay a way bigger premium in Japan and China than they would in the US.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

So of course, those lobstermen are going to take whoever they could sell them to for the most money.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

Obviously, they're in business.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

But just like everything else, it's just getting tighter and tighter.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

And, like, I don't think a lot of people realize seafood's the last of the hunted species.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

There's nothing else that you really go out there on a daily basis.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

There's cow farms, chicken farms, you know, pork farms.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

You know, you can't just go hit a swordfish farm or you can't farm raised lobsters.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

Right.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

Because it takes seven years just to grow one pound.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

Damn.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

So, I mean, this bad boy, like we said, he's about seven pounds, so he's 50 years old.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

Yeah.

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He Accidentally Started America’s Biggest Seafood Business | Jonathan Stramaglia | DSH #1600

These are about the biggest.