The Opihi Pickers
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
The Opihi Pickers
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
These Hawaiian fisherman constantly put themselves in danger in order to harvest a much sought after delicacy..opihi. Sometimes they get swept out to sea and drowned in the powerful ocean surges that crash against the rocky shore. Opihi/Cellana is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Patellidae, the true limpets. This genus occurs in the temperate and tropical Indo-Pacific oceans, Hawaii (where they are known as opihi and considered a delicacy) and around Australia and New Zealand. Species are also found around the coasts of Japan, the Red Sea, Mauritius, Madagascar, South Africa and the sub-Antartarctic Islands.These sea snails feed by grazing on green macroalgae growing on rocky substrate in the intertidal zone. Some of these limpets can live up to seven years, however most do not get older than 2 or 3 years. They reproduce by broadcasting their spawn in large, yolky eggs in great numbers.They are considered a rare and expensive delicacy in Hawaii.
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September 11th, 2014
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