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Have we found anywhere to categorize algae and seaweed yet? What about frogs-as in froglegs?

Frogs don't live in the sea, they live in freshwater--BozMo|talk 15:51, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Seafood or not seafood? In my neighborhood, muskrat is still offered in some restaurants on Fridays -supposedly because Catholics were not permitted to eat meat on Fridays but muskrats being water-dwelling were considered seafood.

Just curiosity, edible algae are not considered seafood?

I would certainly consider them such; I don't find them in my grocery store, though, so if you can name some, please add them. I deliberately did not include seaweed, though, such as Japanese Nori and Hijiki, because I think English speakers generally apply the term "seafood" only to animals. Algae may also be a stretch for some.

Actually, i used the word algae because i forgot the term seaweed.

Well, there's a Welsh dish from seaweed, known as 'Laver bread' IIRC.

....and sodium alginate is a very common food ingredient ,as a thickener and gelling agent etc. It's not regarded as a food item in its own right, though

I couldn't help myself but I think this page should list dishes rather than ingredients. LinusTolke

Even when the dishes are defined as "seafood" by their ingredients? The term is also frequently used to refer to the ingredients themselves without reference to any particular dish: for example, a "seafood market" sells fresh fish, mollusks, etc., but does not serve cooked food. --LDC

OK. Then I will change the definition. LinusTolke

I have been served both of whale meat and polar bear meat in Norway (Spitzbergen). Both are only supposed to be eaten if the die for other reasons but whales and polar bears are both marine animals so is their flesh seafood? --BozMo|talk 15:50, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC) Oh, and seawater crocodile too.

I don't think polar bears qualify as a seafood. It doesn't live in or spend part of its life in water. Its main prey happens to live in the sea and beaches from time to time where a polar bear has a chance of catching it. A beaver spends more time in water than a polar bear but no one calls a beaver a seafood. Revth 02:51, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Wrong picture

The picture doesn't fit. It shows so called "Belgium seafood" made from chocolate! It is a speciality from Brussels and is some kind of praliné. 21. Aug 2005

[edit] Seafood Crisis

Why not add the predicted marine life crisis to this article?

Added some info on this. Feel free to edit and expand. (by the way, it doesn't hurt to sign your messages with four tildes). Wikipedia brown 04:45, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

Propose merge with Fish (food) as most of the content is redundant. Isopropyl 04:51, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Disagree. If the contents of the two articles are redundant, then they both need rewriting. Merge is not the solution as both are different subjects. A lot of food fish are not seafood (tilapia, catfish, etc.) while seafood includes many non-fish food sources. --Melanochromis 05:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Edible seaweed is not seafood?

This article is one of the earliest articles in Wikipedia, it was created with a single edit on 13 July 2001. Two months, later, on 3 September 2001, the second edit was made to the article by Mike Dill. Mike didn't hang round Wikipedia, he made a handful of edits over a period of 12 days and disappeared, so I cannot ask him to contribute to this discussion.

Well Mike contributed this, dubious, and uncited statement: "The plants of the sea are often also edible, including sea lettice (sic), nori, which is a type of seaweed, and most simple algae, but they are not considered seafood as such."

The essence of this unfortunate statement has survived 500 subsequent edits over a period of six and a half years. Today it reads: "Edible seaweeds are rarely considered seafood, even though they come from seawater and are widely eaten around the world."

Really? Google "seafood seaweed" for over 1,000,000 hits. Looking at definitions around the web, there are a couple that echo what Wikipedia has been saying for the last six years. I suggest that they got the idea from Wikipedia.

Anyway, I have adjusted this offending statement to suggest the opposite. So, if any of you lot, who made those 500 subsequent edits, know something about which I need to be set straight, please revert my edit and adjust my crooked thinking.

The issue matters, because it affects the way operations on aquatic plants are categorised and how their navigation works in Wikipedia. --Geronimo20 (talk) 04:33, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fresh Shrimp

How long can fresh shrimp last before processing or freezing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.9.191.206 (talk) 21:34, 1 June 2008 (UTC)