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Sea Pirates Of The 80s

“SHOTS ACROSS THE BOW”

Pirates with head scarves and knives between their teeth disappeared from the seas long ago, hut it hasn’t stopped some modern men of the sea from firing the odd angry shot at each other.

The abalone is quite an unprepossessing shellfish, a realist would say it was ugly. But then a lark’s tongue is not a thing of beauty either, but like the abalone it is considered a delicacy despite its appearance.