That's Why They Don't Eat Shellfish Until They're 50

[@COEYRN]

😅 this is the clamshell shape I remember when I was a child, because my parents used to warn us about touching the bottom or else we may get trapped and drowned by one of these. That's was the 70s for you

[@cwavt8849]

That, and, of course, quick sand. Also, mummies! I'm the movies they always Frankenstein walked very slowly. Yet, they always caught the people running like cheetahs to escape the slow walking mummies 🤔

[@COEYRN]

@@cwavt8849 100% to your comment. I was so grateful when Google came around, and I could finally figure out out how to survive quicksand. Not really sure if I could actually calm myself down enough to do a star float on top quicksand though. of Also yes!! The slow walking Frankenstein, or any of the 1100 slow monsters that ALWAYS!! KILLED EVERYBODY, like wholly mother. The Blob always scared me too.Not only super slow, well monstly, but also freaking invisible. How do you miss anything hanging from the ceiling, let alone a hugh pink blob? . In the monster movies, know one seems to have peripheral vision. Oh could I go on, but I wont torture you.

[@iskandartaib]

Yeah... and China claims it owns all of those waters... 🙄🙄 Their fishermen have been harvesting the giant clams while their coast guard keeps away the Filipino coast guard...

[@SeaKrait571]

And destroying reefs in the process.

[@iskandartaib]

@@SeaKrait571 Yeah.

[@riverlady982]

What don't the Chinese destroy to get what they want?

[@gomahklawm4446]

It's a direct response to yearly drills by the US to close the strait of Malacca. How do you not know this? The US caused and is causing this. What right do we have to control the other side or the world again????

[@user-vk7cp1op9p]

So that is one of the reasons China has claimed all those waters, and much more. And ignoring all the other countries' rights with immediate coastline on those same oceans, because China has the money/muscle to be the bully.

[@synergy021]

Imagine waiting years and years for them to grow and then somebody just steals them. Ouch.

[@michaelChaosfrost]

Most uselessly farmed creature ever. The farmer might not even live long enough to enjoy the money they'll make from it. Taking the whole long term profit to another level.

[@RendaJane]

Vanilla farmers face the same challenge.

[@jacobeccles5127]

@@RendaJane so do people who farm trees. Pine tree farms are very prominent in my area. We are talking 25-50 years before farming. Most of the time people have to sell their land and trees before they are done growing. It is still worth good money at that point though obviously.

[@tomevers6670]

@@michaelChaosfrostwhy if he’s doing to set up his family? For you to not see that means you’re ridiculously selfish

[@xrayron1]

@@jacobeccles5127 and tree farms get tax breaks

[@ChymoNZM]

Try growing apples from seed for example. Creating new kinds of apples can take decades. Ten years for a tree to grow sufficiently big but at least it'll keep producing more and more for years.

[@SilvaDreams]

Most apples aren't grown from seeds, they use cuttings from other mature trees.

[@MouseDestruction]

It was quite the problem some areas had after being invaded if their orchards got burnt down in a war. Very much worse than other farms that could grow in 3-6 months, and after swapping crops you probably have less output than a mature orchard. Takes a long time for them to bounce back from that.

[@DiscoChixify]

@@SilvaDreamsthat’s exactly right. Apples do not grow true to fruit when grown from a seed. That’s why they’re grafted. There’s still some experimentation with seed and creating new varieties. However most orchards are made of trees with the root stock from one apple variety that grows well in their soil and watering schedule, with branches grafted from a specific tree they’re trying to propagate for its specific variety of apples. In order to pollinate an apple tree they have to receive pollen from an apple tree that is markedly different from themselves. The seeds produced by those pairings will have apples that are nothing like the apple they came from.

[@sicsempertyrannishonk7197]

Recorded human history is only 60 grandmas away (assuming they lived 100 years.)

[@COEYRN]

I used to work for the city. A very coveted job when you were a teenager who made the most money. I was picked by Arthur as his assistant he was the Gardener. Basically it was eight hours every weekday for 2 months sitting in a truck and listening to Arthur tell me about trees and flowers. It was just around the time those fast growing trees came out. Arthur painfully explained to why these trees were an Abomination and they should not be sold. The root system isn't deep enough, and at a certain height a stiff breeze will end them

[@KohTaoKyle]

"The government have deeper pockets" yeah, OUR POCKETS

[@seabeepirate]

The government might spend like they have deeper pockets than we do but government money is taxpayer money, if their pockets are deeper than the taxpayers pockets there’s something wrong.

[@C21H30O2]

Their pockets ARE the citizens pockets. They have given themselves the power to spend our money to makes themselves rich. Soon...

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Sea food enthusiasts are so shellfish

[@sexgod6909]

😂😂😂

[@sunbeamserendipity8843]

😆

[@JustAFellowTruthSeeker]

I see what you did there sir 😅

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

@@JustAFellowTruthSeeker surely you meant * sea * 😄

[@kc10man]

Saw a market in Hainan selling them, as well as giant sea turtles. Amazing what you can find when you take a random bus to the end of the line to see what happens.

[@mamacarrol5799]

Oysters, clams, things like this are filtration system for the water. They can Breed all they want to. All it will do is make me grateful. Because these things will be what saves the water and the ocean.

[@Jesse-zk9ge]

Pretty good🤔, if they get it right those clams could be just as useful as the oysters are here on the West Coast of America. Plus they're very pretty as a tank fish. And it could help protect the ones that exist in the wild that help structure natural coral reefs. 👌

[@RMA8159]

New fear unlocked after the tales of the sneaky giant man eating clams. Even if it’s not true.

[@hellefur7861]

And now I can polish my halo, because I don't eat shellfish 😇

[@DUSTY12X5]

clam chowder is nice, but clam chowder usually doesn't come from a 10 grand bivalve

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

Sea food enthusiasts are so shellfish

[@kouxiatou443]

yea say that with your blood minerals that is used for your device, which you used to access the internet

[@hellefur7861]

@@kouxiatou443 and that is related to eating shellfish?

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

@@kouxiatou443 Like you just did?

[@RocketDog73]

Was that Boris Johnson scuba diving next to that giant clam at the start?

[@LCM-sq4pw]

A clam open very slow, but they close quickly .. about 3 to 5 seconds...that's how people got their hands stuck in a clamshell.

[@faafafineartist]

so when 'the government' is footing the bill, this means 'the wider community / taxpayers are footing the bill to help maintain this business.

[@snowghost247]

Well maintain a whole species but yeah 😅

[@RiotforPeacePlz]

Wait so this guy doesn't have a clue on how taxs work? If the government is paying for this that literally means the average person is paying for literally another rich persons doing.....odd he doesn't seem to know that...

[@Takeawayjustin]

Im kinda confused

[@Takeawayjustin]

And what time

[@halfdevilgod3rdalt571]

Question can a single individual fund it? I do believe he knows how taxes work but i don't think that needs to be said as "government pays with taxes" I mean if you don't know how tax works you'd hardly be living in this age

[@Takeawayjustin]

@@halfdevilgod3rdalt571 yeah cause im still a kid

[@Takeawayjustin]

@halfdevilgod3rdalt571 i think you pay money for expenses so the government can do stuff with it, like fixing potholes, paying for electricity, building infrastructure etc

[@veasnatdm4861]

I seen a lot of Westerner in the pouching photo, but for some reason whenever I think of poucher, I always think of the Chinese who treat those rare animal as medicine, is this the effect of a successful propaganda since, despite poucher can be anyone from any places, I always think of Asian people.

[@rikublaze]

"You dive , and everywhere you look there's clams." *pause* Me: 😂😂😂😏😏 Mind went straight to the gutter 😂

[@twilightingX]

I remember recently, a Korean celebrity survival show. One of the girls found and cooked one of these and the government was pissed about it, because they are endangered. They didn’t realized.

[@bsfishing7073]

Probably because that’s when they learn not to be selfish😅I will be here all day long 😅

[@ExcitedBowtieCat-xf4wv]

😂

[@nicpage4075]

I find this joke a little fishy

[@SomeOne-mw8zl]

Love ur ways u make videos!

[@lynnleigha580]

You said "poopooah" 😂 its an a sound, lol, pApua 😂😂

[@massimosquecco8956]

Good to know! I wish I could collect 1, ever, but now, thanks to you, I know better and they have suddenly become a NO FLY Zone for my aesthetic and possessive ambitions! Always glad to receive education, wherever it comes, and motivated abstinence is a morally molder for my ego.

[@Ripsaw17]

I have a blue one and a red one in my fish tank I've had them for about 3 years I know at some point I'll probably have to take him out put they are really cool I'll probably end up returning them back to the wild at some point

[@MiyagiDo9]

Will they survive this?

[@riverlady982]

​@@MiyagiDo9I've done the same thing with fresh water clams and they were fine, I checked. Their moving them between farms and ocean here and they're fine. If you feed them well and put them back in an appropriate spot they can have the advantage of extra resources saved for their healthy adjustment to their new environment. I learned all kinds of things about the local river clams by borrowing one or two for a while and putting them in my well established tank. Of course I'd also been studying their natural habits in the wild for a couple years first nearly every day while trapping minnows for my Dad's Bait Shop.

[@mla906]

😢 this makes me sad .. i hope they won't go extinct

[@RoryCoop-vb1un]

Well unless your Yoda, you'll never see a dime

[@Nmethyltransferase]

"That's Why They Don't Eat Shellfish Until They're 50"

[@Jupiter-td4kw]

You could be 20 but find a 50 year old clam

[@ralph4370]

@@Jupiter-td4kw Most young men do for practice....wait..wrong topic

[@Sarge-at-Large]

@14:00 If it’s fossilized shells, is the practice of (illegally) collecting them as bad (immorally or destructively)? Doesn’t that mean that those particular clams have been dead for a while?

[@watsl4828]

We call it Vasuva in Tonga.

[@d012k-n5t]

The name of the clam kind of makes it sound like it's an offshoot Giganotosaurus

[@comradehunk130]

And here's another. . Since china is claiming the west philippine sea most of those areas that used to have giant clams and coral reefs are now gone.

[@CruzanRastamon]

They substitute their income by growing other popular clams for eating. There are other ones that fetch a good penny and only take a fraction of time to grow. Also the type of clam farms that are privately owned only need one or two people to maintain. It’s not like chicken where you have to feed them everyday. So no, they don’t just grow these alone waiting 15-20 yrs to see a profit. They grow other profitable clams.

[@DoctorDictator]

Watching that money move up so slowly at 1:20 was Stressful

[@Morganational]

Whoa whoa, what about the colossal squid?!

[@metern]

Those giant clams can actually kill you. How. If you get your arm or leg inside it as it closes, you get stuck and you are in risk of drowning.

[@crankskinatra6038]

Maybe you but not me

[@metern]

@@crankskinatra6038 Then you are one of the lucky ones 😁

[@getinthespace7715]

Can you imagine setting up a giant clam farm in the ocean and 15 years later just before harvest having it wiped out by a typhoon or something. Risky business.

[@joshlowe3509]

The government doesn't have deeper pockets. They can REACH deeper in to ours...

[@kevinwells5812]

This was MUCH better-back to the roots. Hope the feedback was helpful. Thanks for the great work you do, guys! ❤

[@misanthropicphilanthropy]

Lol @ 8:53 "it looks like this, you "dive" and everywhere you look, there are "clams".... SILENCE...(Crickets chirping) 😂🤧 omfg 🤣 nice 👍🥲 🤔 i love going "diving" down on some fresh "clam", when she's right out the shower...🤗🙏🥲

[@smitty19612008]

Is there anything the Chinese Don't think is an aphrodisiac???

[@sebjake3793]

@smitty19612008 Have you ever confirmed with one chinese or it must be true from a KZbin video say so

[@suehafford9463]

Yes, I work with them😂

[@rowbearly6128]

Jesus, the narrator sounds like he's trying to sell me drain cleaner on TV at 3AM.

[@lovejoydk838]

I have past the 50 years. Came here to see what I now can eat. ;)

[@PhilieBlunt666]

A Clam Rush sounds dirty... 😂😂

[@dreamwolf7302]

In college, during my Pathology courses, we learned HOW these things can kill humans. People stick their hand in the open shell, get clamped, and since most of the people who do this are free diving, they end up drowning because they cant free themselves.

[@randomkitty2555]

Tha'd be a terrible way to die, not to mention the person who finds the body. Discovering a dead body just floating upright during a dive would be scary.

[@gregsmith7821]

Giant clams are harmless to people. Their shells move far too slowly to trap any unsuspecting diver and never close completely, always leaving a sight gap. There has never been a recorded incidence of human death by clam.❤

[@dreamwolf7302]

@@gregsmith7821 I dont know who told you that, but its not true... They literally warn you not to stick your hands inside, because they can close the shell very quickly. you realize the shell is their defense mechanism right? You think a slow closing shell is going to protect them from a predator? they can close their shell in less time than it takes to blink. I've personally seen the bodies of people who died, trying to reach into these things, when i was working with Doctors Without Borders.

[@aryanbaligad4567]

A lot of these people are broke af. My cousins in the Philippines does this for a living. $12000 in pesos would be life changing for one of these people. Very easy for us North American to say these other countries have to stop for the environment due to our comfortable lives. Trust me if they could do something else they would. On top of everything you put in this video, this is pretty dangerous occupation. Love spreading the word of saving the planet but just like the drug trade people are kinda forced into this life.

[@ayesa5314]

Well they COULD do something else like fishing the problem is they want quick bucks

[@mybigsteaminjohn4027]

⁠@@ayesa5314you COULD quit driving a vehicle/eating meat but you won’t you just want easy convenience

[@SilverbackJellybottom]

​@@mybigsteaminjohn4027 atleast they doing something, also what does meat have to do with this?

[@mybigsteaminjohn4027]

@@SilverbackJellybottom environmental impact of western meat consumption is probably worse than 3rd world people harvesting giant clams. If buddy claims they ‘can just fish’ to prevent the ecological damage from clam harves. then I’m going to something equally as presumptuous as ‘you can just not eat meat’ but he won’t because of his own reasons, he’ll pay no mind to the environmental impact of factory farming or driving his vehicle. Similarly the 3rd world people harvesting clam won’t stop because they have their own reasons and won’t pay mind to the environmental impact of it. Tldr: the guy was being a hypocrite

[@aryanbaligad4567]

@@ayesa5314 again $12000 American is life changing over there

[@MLM111]

The clam may eat you 😂

[@SIDEKICKONYOUTUBE]

1:05 WTF have you done to our country Philippines ? you DROWNED US !

[@OleensEmbroidery]

In Machapango on the Eastern Shore VA, there is a big clam farm. But these clams mature within 3 to 5 years haha. Delicious.

[@GothAtheist]

Yes, because warm/cold mucous is a "tasty treat". Nasty.

[@alphabasic1759]

Oysters make pearls….

[@DieselDoesScience]

Some clams do as well

[@CallemJayNZ]

I'm Māori and I've literally never heard of a clam eating a canoe. I've heard stories of Taniwha (Mythological sea monsters) eating people and seafaring vessels

[@Dudesaidthat]

This could be used as a hell of an ira 😂

[@devilofether6185]

these poachers can only be stopped by getting rid of the market associated with them entirely; and that can only happen when there is no economic incentive, requiring a complete overhaul in economics. Capitalism is at fault for putting a dollar value on something that is so important to our world, when there are a lot of other reasonable, and more sustainable alternatives

[@__-be1gk]

You realize the greatest market for poached animal goods is a communist country right

[@smelltheglove2038]

Funny, because the biggest market is in China.

[@katjames914]

Educating people helps, a lot of collectors don’t want people to think of them as putting collecting before environmental concerns and will lose interest in collecting these types of items. But there are those who will find it even more inviting if it’s black market and endangered.

[@gurth-quake1627]

I would probably raise a tank of them as just a hobby so that when I retire, I could sell them for retirement funds

[@coachsimmons]

That is not what I thought you said....🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@The-three-eyed-Prophet]

imagine how much mony you could make by creating a pearl farm for giant clams !!! ...

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

Pearls come from oysters, not clams…

[@jillvasquez1010]

​@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 all bivalves are capable of making pearls, they just may not be pretty enough to make jewelry out of.

[@chemistryofquestionablequa6252]

@@jillvasquez1010 which is why you wouldn’t farm giant clams for that reason

[@Georg161280]

Compare it to trees and suddenly its just a short lifecycle

[@bil7420]

Nah depends on trees there are some species ready to chop within 12 years.

[@SilvaDreams]

​​@@bil7420 You do know there are some trees around 10,000 years old right? Also those are pine trees, they are fast growing softwood and that is just for the minimum size needed for them to be big enough to harvest.

[@marumiyuhime]

what tree i know of some trees whose life cycle is 100 years or less like red maples or white paper birch. be careful in biology saying all or non.

[@mla906]

and now there's almost no old trees around

[@DarronJames]

CLAMS FROM SPONGEBOB!!! 🦪👌🤣

[@armanimckoy2168]

Is it hard to catch a clam? Is there something about them that i dont know

[@mariloustarr5972]

Pearls don’t come from clams, they come from oysters. Is this an oyster farm?

[@Aman-km6cv]

Wrong! Pearls come from Clam, oysters or mussel. Any mollusk can produce pearl

[@mariloustarr5972]

@@Aman-km6cv Pearls form inside a mollusk which is an invertebrate with a soft body, often protected by a shell such as a clam, oyster or mussel. Any mollusk is capable of producing a pearl, although only those mollusks that have shells lined with nacre produce pearls that are used in the jewellery industry.

[@barretharms655]

One small catch and the problem is most people cannot imagine a person standing inside of one but that is usually how we find them.

[@snowghost247]

Clams do not just chill they can swim 😭

[@khalborg]

1:09 …and The Philippines. Thanks for the mention, but you could’ve at least included the archipelago in the map.

[@no.869]

GUAM MENTIONED HEYY AYY 🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺‼️‼️‼️

[@spiraboy]

In Vietnam one guy offered me this clam for 700.000 dong, which is about 40 dollars i think. It was about 20cm and maybe 2kg i weight. In American units that’s about the weight of a cat or something.

[@AdrianCHOY]

I can’t eat that much clam. They taste better in bite sizes. This makes me puke.

[@marystout2870]

I like your videos.

[@zironemegeaz]

Governments don't have deep pockets they have their populations pockets

[@TenCadorniga]

Feb 17 2024, Watop you forgot the Philippines in your world map. You have folowers here if you check.

[@drefarley8527]

PALAU MENTIONED!?!?!! 🐠🐠RAHHHHHHHH!!!🐟🐠🐟

[@popcola1462]

Love the video but it feels short to me(time wise) but it was great and thank you

[@drumsy69]

Is much better if they can just let go a Giant clams until it grow up Mountain! Well kinda weird because there's no point of limit having prove right! Guess wait until 1000 years!

[@sadiezero-jx9wv]

Forget clams, breathing is an aphrodisiac in china there overpopulated as hell

[@ExzoSSG]

I've been growing the wrong stuff.

[@anonydun82fgoog35]

I almost broke my tooth on a pearl inside a clam once. Here I was eating my spaghetti vongole and crunch wtf is this (I spit it out and it's this tiny white pearl). I never even realized you can get pearls from clams.

[@wisses1805]

Can we get also the metric measurements?

[@wisconsinaquatics]

Great video guys! Could you take a look into the cichlid fish they have a complicated social structure in and out of nature especially the ones from Africa! You might even get lost falling down the rabbit hole of their evolutionary paths and how many different species there can be just in one body of water and through out the world! Trust me cichlids are way more interesting than you know!

[@giftndori9362]

Thank you Steve 🇿🇼🇿🇼🌍

[@Regrets_reve]

For every 4 clams you should only be allowed to take 1.

[@vendex1875]

I remember back when u used to buy sub bots😂

[@jonlaurenzreyes1902]

Chinese fishermen stole the giant clams that the Philippine Environment Department put in West Philippine Sea

[@emeliealegonero4043]

American dont have that time waiting to harvest clams , hahaha😊😮

[@freddiesamuel684]

Excuse me? Triachna huh?🌚 lol

[@munchiesfordayz9560]

pearls are made by a specific oyster

[@stonahhlovah2026]

How do they cook the meat

[@Willowcreek19]

My mom gave a diver 10 bucks for an oyster at the bottom. She was gonna rich off that pearl. Nope.

[@yoranthium]

Actually you have to understand Generational farming. Sections of the farms are harvested at yearly time intervals. You create the first batch one year, and then another batch the next year and then farm at size and rotate the farming for 50 to 60 batches. This the first generation starts the farming at year 50 but every generation after has a patch that is farmed annually. Creating an annual yield. The only sad thing is the harm WEF and Globalists would do to generational farms if their stupid NAZI agendas destroy these generational farms. Like what happened to the Karls farm Dairy in Northkorea, Northglenn Colorado. Now we live in a degraded society that sells drugs and beer instead of healthy milk.

[@wyogirl5648]

The governments money is the peoples money,

[@nanunanu365]

"The more skilled they are, the more they expect to be paid" Doesn't mean they will be paid more. Late stage Capitalism....

[@blablawbl9880]

Theirs a way to get a pearl without killing the clam tho TvT

[@shrimpoffthebarbie]

I have seen in them on a scuba dive in the Philippines. They are huge. But a bit boring to TBH. The rest of the dive was sand.

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

17:56 someone knows their stuff … 😏

[@IllustrataUk]

I was looking for this comment! 😂😂 That was some NC-17 stuff!

[@whynottalklikeapirat]

@@IllustrataUk Juuust a craftsman diligently plying his trade 😌 🤲🏼🫳🫴🤏🏼🖖🏼🤌🏼👌🏼

[@IllustrataUk]

@@whynottalklikeapirat 😂😂😂😂

[@Its_Shaun_the_Sheep]

Shell are currency in one or two countries.

[@MooseForceOne]

1:15- "Bigger... Bigger... Bigger... Bigger"

[@chippab1407]

I've eaten many a clam in my 53 years 😉👍

[@DanFilkins-s5p]

If you know anybody wants to buy fossilized pearls from the Philippines I can get them

[@JiangXina]

Dude Lao got no sea

[@rosemolenaar]

Meters and centimeters please Europe is also watching😅

[@GeoffBosco]

10:55-11:23 I am a mature adult I am a mature adult I am a mature adult

[@ArthurArthur-u9z]

Our LORD GOD ALMIGHTY will.recreate.the coral reef and judge the thieves.