The Old Foodie: Dialectical Difficluties.A parton (partan, partane, perton, perten, pertine, pertein, pertian) is, apparently, Gaelic for crab. Ain’t linguistic trivia grand?
Common edible brown crab (cancer cancer or something)?
Not so long ago (10years approx-ish) boats were travelling all the way from Guernsey to Scotland to fish for lobster. They would take their own pots and transport their catch back live in their vivier tanks after a month or so and then on to France to land them. We had the expertise and the experience to exploit a far away resource but it's no longer profitable as others with less overheads and less than a near 2000 mile round trip to make, have taken over. Lot of lobbies up there though, just not much of a market.
Dave
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