Самые большие в мире устрицы. Как их выращивают и едят.

Imagine the most gigantic oyster you've ever eaten. Now imagine it's three times bigger! These are the oysters lying right under your feet on the shallows of Lake Busse on Sakhalin. All day long we've been gorging ourselves on oysters, scallops, trepangs, whelks, ruditapes, and sea urchins, which cost up to $100 a piece in Moscow restaurants! And here they are lying at your feet, begging to be put on the dinner table! However, I'd like to immediately mention something sad: such abundance attracts not only tourists, but also poachers, who barbarically destroy the population of sea creatures and harvest them on an industrial scale. Here and there in the water you come across bags of collected oysters and scallops, and no one seems to care. The lake is on the brink of an ecological disaster. Local residents are starting to protest about this and blame tourists - they say, we don't need gastronomic tourism here, we don't need to attract people to the region, all this PR only brings harm and nothing more. Wait, but what do tourists have to do with it? How many scallops and oysters will rare travelers catch for the sake of interest? And how many do local poachers get for money? These things are completely incomparable. All these delicacies are freely sold in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - does anyone even control the route they take to the shelves? Again, we have everything going to extremes and the ass: instead of establishing proper supervision and control, let's ban everything and keep it a secret...