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- Tropical rock lobsters, or pearl lobsters, as they're better known, are one of the rarest and most expensive lobster varieties. The colorful crustaceans are so valuable that there have been international smuggling attempts of its larvae. Commercially bred pearl lobsters sell for about $50 per kilogram, while wild-caught pearl lobsters sell for $99 per kilogram. This makes pearl lobsters more than six times as expensive as Maine lobsters.
So, what makes pearl lobsters so special? And why are they so expensive?
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The reason why it’s so expensive is the same reason why most things are “so expensive” you just have to say “this is special lobster and only special people can eat it.” And the customer says “I’m a special person. Here’s my wallet.”
Its just supply and demand that set the price
@@tongpoo8985 marketing can affect demand
@@mandarinduck yes but its not the only thing
This is only partly true. It wouldn’t work for something that is easy access
@@tongpoo8985 theres no demand if theres no market
100 years ago these "sea bugs" were considered trash. But so was blue fin tuna.
Depends where you're talking about. Lobster has always been a staple in many coastal communities for thousands of years.
The rich and rich-wannabes will always eat rare food as a sign of status.
You mean to colonizers?
Wrong
They feed them to prisoners cochroach of the sea they called them
The baby lobster was cute. These are really pretty as far as bottom feeders go.
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 no its a lobster video
@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist4 gtfo
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ All hail the Lob Star! Let its celestial radiance shine upon thee and grant onto thee a crustaceous bounty from the sea.
My ex said the same thing about me 🥲
@@Sevenofnone 🤨
Never seen a Pearl Lobster before, so I thought that tiny clear larvae at the start was the specimen itself. In some ways, I think the larvae looks more exquisite than the adults.
@@Leviathan-mj8gi I was actually wondering what they tasted like so thanks for the comment. Interesting. I'm not a seafood fan, but that sounds extra gross. Sure are cool looking though.
@@TheMushuCorner it taste just like similar to prawns but just a bit meatier,,, in my experience there’s nothing special about their taste i personally prefer the king crab meat over any special lobster…
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I've hand caught plenty of wild lobster in both examples and can say it's likely the marketing of the tropicals that has garnered the popularity. I've never been able to taste the difference between them. A healthy lobster will always taste the best. They are beautiful, prehistoric looking creatures.
Our sight heavily impacts how we taste things. The spiny lobsters are more attractive than the Maine ones, so we think it must be "sweeter" or "more savory". It'd be interesting to do a blind taste test with regular people and see if they notice a difference.
All said, King/snow crabs are definitively better than any lobster. I can get a couple lobster tails for about $10 at the right time of year, but crab legs are always heavy on the wallet, and deservedly so. They're literally seafood candy.
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@@nahor88 not really interesting I'll bet you 20 bucks when it comes to human behaviour it's it's pretty straight forward
They all definitely have a different flavour and texture. It can also vary wildly between the individual lobster itself depending on where it is in its moulting stage and it’s reproductive cycle. These ornate lobsters are the worst tasting but they are just the most impressive to look at on the table which is why they are so expensive. If your ever in Australia try a southern rock lobster, they are the best eating and are the closest to crab
its actually the best as a healthy lobster but its actually different, like when you eat fish ex like tuna, tuna have different type, the one is more like moist and the other one is more dry meat. the lobster is the same too and actually any other meat that you eat is different from other meat that people eat in different country like australlian beef, wagyu beef(japanese beef), and others
Sounds like the standards are both ensuring supply and keeping the prices high, which is a balance. The supply can't become too high, or the price drops, which the rules help, but they must keep interest over long periods, so they raise the lobsters as well.
welcome to immoral sealife farming
@@Gunsforbuns immoral? Do you go to the grocery store? If so you can’t speak on morals then lol
@@wallaceluna6241 i never said i dont buy farmed fish. Everyone in every first world country buys farmed goods, whether it be fish or not. My comment was about the fact that the only way to keep up with said demand is through immoral sealife farming.
@@Gunsforbuns Even if the stuff is being farmed. It's still not immoral with the prices charged. Farmed livestock of any kind, seafood or land based. You need to pay your workers their wages, you need to pay for the energy required to maintain the livestock, plus their food and the equipment.
Then comes needing to pay your property taxes, maintainence. And to top it off. When you do finally harvest, you need to pay for the trucks and fuel to ship them out and insure that they do not die. Specially lobster and other shellfish as one dead lobster or crab that sits for too long can ruin the entire batch.
@@Superintendent_ChaImers think u missed the point made by guns. It's immoral because all that's being thought about, like in this comment, is money, rather than respecting the balance that nature has procured over thousands or millions of years. Little is cared for about the free-will of the lobsters themselves, or what impact it has on the ecosystem as we meddle around, farming them on a mass scale.
The other point being made is that this immorality is just the cost of what it means being human (called the banality of evil), and that we in some sense have to do this commodified mass market slaughter of species in order to be privileged to be alive ourselves...nobody is exempt from that evil...that if you live in a 1st world country and shop at a grocery market, you are participating in that mass market slaughter to some causally disconnected degree. Humans know this but we simply ignore it because if we thought about just how terrible it is...well it would be hard to live with ourselves.
You can imagine that if some super advanced alien race came to our planet tomorrow, and realized how tasty humans are...set up elaborate systems to breed us...our fate/destiny to become food by the time we reached maturity...it's an unsettling thought.
The baby is freaking adorable! It looks like a tiny lobster Swarovski crystal 🥺🥺 ok even the adults are stunning with all their colors and patterns! Like wow 🤩 I want one as a pet now lol
@@williamarmbruster3666 thank you xD I’ve had other people insult me for it lol.
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Like most spiny lobster, pearl lobster have a larval stage where they drift with the wind and current. For pearl lobster this stage is roughly 6 months so the source of Indonesia's lobster may be somewhere else in the Indo Pacific that's 6 months "upstream". Similarly, the Caribbean spiny lobster found in Florida that resemble Pearl Lobster likely came from parents on a reef in Central America.
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
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phyllosome larva
If all the babies end up upstream. How come all the adults that made the babies are downstream lol. Presumably if you keep going downstream far enough there are no lobsters left to make more babies so where do they all come from haha.
It would mean all the babies that spent 6 months floating to the other side of the ocean would have to walk back to the start to complete the cycle. Doesn't make sense.
Currents are complex, they'll loop around an ocean basin or fluctuate in strength seasonally. Storms and periods of sustained winds can also move water against the prevailing current. My point was simply that due to their long larval stage, managing lobster as a sustainable resource is quite complex since the parent population may not even be in the same country.
@@chickenmadness1732 Some manage to stay and some end up floating away?
Give whoever did the thumbnail a raise, anyone else drawn in at the thought of glass looking lobsters ? 😅
I lost it at the cardboard box transportation
same lmaoo, bro threw them in a box, taped it up and drove off into the horizon
The pearl lobster. It's cute as a baby and gets great Wi-Fi signal strength as an adult. Truly an amazing creature.
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The pearl lobster got 5G before the average iPhone user
"It's so rare and beautiful I can't cope" CHUCKS IT IN A BOILING PAN!
That's how most South East Asians eat
I dive for these commercially in Australia and they are the worst tasting lobster out of the 8 species we have here. Their flesh is tough and has a very strong flavour. The only reason they are the most valuable is because they are colourful and when they’re large their legs get very long so look impressive on a table. I’ve seen them be exported for upwards of $122 a kg and that’s what we get paid for them not what the customer is paying for them in china
So which species is the best in your opinion? The standard red crayfish?
Appreciate the insight 😍
which species is the tastiest then? That's all i care about
The tastiest imo is southern rock lobster.
@@ye4usMaine lobster
It took me until the end of the video to realize the lobster's didn't have any claws.
Warm water lobsters don't have claws. Same in Mexico, Florida, Caribbean, etc
it's a spiny lobster. the are a completely different family
I love learning things like this!! 🔥
leave dem bugs alone i swear we got to eat everything
@@nhatmnguyen dets a bug ion care get out your feelings
@@ricodundun125 but those bugs are yummy
@@nhatmnguyen you’re right it’s not we’ll just let them eat them into extinction and then it’ll no longer be a decision it’ll be “that’s too bad, should’ve thought of that ahead of time”
A few years ago I was told maine lobster was better because the cold-water made the meat sweeter.
I've never had pearl lobster but I think the california spiny lobster is the best but maine is cheaper and in something like mac and cheese you will barely tell that its not the spiny lobster. I eat a lot of lobster cause I hunt for them as my favorite is a grilled california lobster
It whatever they want you to think to make you buy the “next best thing”
maine lobster are not lobsters lmao they are freaking crayfish
This channel is full of constant BS.
@@Leviathan-mj8gi crayfish can also live in land for short period of time but they mostly prefer muddy water
people should go to the north of Spain and try the "bogavante", its like a lobster but its bigger and therefore has more meat, powerful and its also more tender
False. Lobster size is bigger than bogavante and Lobster meat is usually softer and tastier than bogavante meat which is tougher.thats why people prefer lobster than bogavante.
You really have no idea what your talking about
"bogavante" is just the spanish word for european lobster
No thanks. Lobster here in the US is just fine
In Brazil, boga means As$h0le, and avante is like “go in”, so…
Did not know they existed. They're beautiful!
I wish they would let them live!!
I'd rather see billions of lobsters swimming in the sea than on people's plates
Living in places with good food like this everywhere must be nice it’s regular to them
That last guy is a legit lobster connoisseur.
i dunno why people pay so much for lobsters - they're scavengers.
Why would ANYONE want to eat something that cool?
So all other living creatures aren't considered cool in your view so it's cool to eat them? Your McDonalds Pattie was once a cow who loved her life and her calves.
Always watching from Georgetown Guyana south America 🇬🇾🇬🇾🇬🇾
Wow.. amazing.. i like it 👍👍😍
I much prefer my lobster to be 60+ years old, and swimming free in the sea where it belongs! Gorgeous creatures!
@@Leviathan-mj8gi "and swimming free in the sea where it belongs" he's saying he like lobsters to be left alone.
That is unsustainable practice, not long it will be gone from those location, especially in indonesia, no law to regulate the catch, and ppl there took all, whether small or female one
All things aside, these creatures look so cool!
Best video for knowledge
Shoutout to Brody for bein able to eat these on the daily
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Need to try this!
Why lmao it’s way too expensive and isn’t worth
@@monsieurzone6878 if he can afford it why not mind your business doubt he's using his rent money to buy it loool
@@ibrahimhassan711 it’s a public forum wdym mind your business. All I did was ask why lmao
@@monsieurzone6878 lool I mean mind your buisness as in don’t worry about how people want to spend their money. If you don’t want to fine none of your business if other want to.
Finally now I understand the meaning of the song Rock Lobster!!
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when in past times , I read this channel name as BUSINESS INSIDER ,
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In short, pearl lobsters are so expensive because they taste good. 8 minutes of your life, saved.
Thank u
No. Its because theyre rare. If it wasnt rare then other lobsters would then be considered "rare delicacies".
@@ironpizza5150 exactly, so dumb
No...5 seconds of my life wasted.
This channel hocks up crummy video after crummy video, all about how we should feel guilty that some people have no idea how to run their businesses. These clowns want government price controls on lobster. Jeebus.
And yet still it is the bottom feeder of the ocean. 50 years ago lobster was a few bucks and prime tuna fillet went into cat food.
Yup. We are destroying the oceans.
Nice!!!!
To be honest, I'd never heard of pearl lobsters before watching this video. 😮
They are also in all of the Caribbean and gulf coast
Yeah, I was thinking it just looks like a regular ol’ spiny lobster with a slightly different shell.
Whatever your opinion on the taste, it’s at least nice to see that Indonesians at least attempt to preserve the species and not just push them to extinction
yeah we even have Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries go to jail because of curruption involving export lobster larvae
Wow they look really cool
Bless Abdul Casseem and Murdim, hard working men.
All Lobsters taste like Lobsters. It doesn’t matter the type. Unfortunately marketing to increase value can lead to a placebo affect where something is the best damn thing you’ve ever had in your life. Resulting in targeting vulnerable species.
I recently started following a mediterranean diet. Knowing I live in FL, my son asked me what pink shrimp taste like. I said "They taste like shrimp." Honestly, I don't have a clue why people think they are so special. There are no pink shrimp being sold now due to the oil spill that killed so many of them and ruined their beds.
If you are not used to eating different kind of lobsters and do not live in places where lobsters are abundant then yes all lobsters taste the same. Also all frozen lobsters would taste the same. Super fresh lobsters do not with the other kinds.
You do not used to eat fresh wild caught lobsters right? So your opinion its irrelevant
A spiney lobster tastes better then main lobster. But main lobster has more meat because of the claws.
I’m sorry but I just don’t actually believe that.
We saw one of these while snorkeling and had no idea they were that valuable! My fiance got to close and he squared up. It is one of our favorite memories of the trip!
For the price tag, they better taste damn good~!
I think that cultivating lobsters and swimming about like that is my dream job.
Okay! imagine you raise stray kittens you find to sell to pet stores for an unlivable wage, only for the pet store to sell em for 6 times the amount they gave you, and the government put strict regulations on the size and number of kittens you can raise, do you see the issue?
What gets me is… yeah they cost SO much yet they pay these guys so little for their work… what a fair world we live in.
We've all been waiting patiently for a month for you to fix it. What's the holdup?
Yeah that’s been like that forever in the fishing industry. The Pay is terrible compared to The value of what they actually catch especially if it’s for a big industry.
Don't forget that cost of import, cost of maintaining, cost of protection, cost of demand, cost of entry is what makes the end product so expensive.
People: I will never eat the bugs
Also People: here is $100 for an underwater insect that eats sea garbage.
I always feel bad for the lobsters until the waiter brings garlic butter to the table
Rmenber lobsters can live longer than yoy and you eat them "A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral."
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@@isaiahc8390I guess the person you wrote your comment to is not interested much in Christianity since God in old Testament forbid their people eating sea food
Haha I’m from Singapore n this is the first time I heard of pearl lobster.
There’s always something novel to try I suppose. Cheers
Gaaaah I want pearl lobster now. Sweet savory I haven't had that since I've had white crab
That's awesome that they also take meaningful efforts to repopulate.
I love Maine Lobster, but I also love Scallops, Clams and Squid and Oysters. Not crazy about octopus. But rock cod, halibut, snapper and tuna are ok too.
Butterflies are pretty.
I like it when planes go whoooosh.
I have seen these in port Blair, they look absolutely stunning.
Not the fly at the beginning 😂
There’s a huge pearl lobster farm in Oregon prices are great and they have the biggest indoor private farm I ever seen sanitary too instead of 100$ you can get em for 20-30$ and still delicious
What’s it called? If you don’t mind sharing
What separates a sanitary lobster farm from an unsanitary one ?
@@sandysand3484 Pearligon Lobsters
@@dspsblyuth I Googled the name, nothing.
@@bensoncheung2801 that’s probably because I made it up
its interesting that the wild ones grow so much bigger & heavier than the captive ones; for most seafood, i thought the opposite was true
More roaming, eating different types of food, and generally developing muscles being active would probably make the wild ones bigger.
Different higher quality diet
Alright you convinced me, I'm going to try some pearl lobster.
There goes another animal that will go instinct in a couple years
Humans should go extinct
they are breeding it for profit. how's it gonna go extinct when they are making more of them?
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I had mo idea that baby lobsters looked like that… I want one.
Flies are a delicacy also 🤣🤣🤣
Those lil baby lobsters r so CUTE tho
Cute and tasty
Yeah for you cute and for others food
Very cute when they are small, impressive when they are big🙌🏼
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I would love to try Pearl Lobster. My favorite is Maine Lobster, it is much sweeter and more delicious than Rock Lobster. Any day of the week I will pay extra for Maine Lobster over Rock Lobster. I wonder if it is a similar comparison with the Pearl Lobster and Sand Lobster there? I also wish their government would stabilize the prices so the families can be supported.
Visit Indonesia
Clawless lobsters lmao
Yeah. Maine lobster 🦞 is sweeter than Brazilian lobster, that's for sure.
@@joeykoo3779 does taste play absolutely no role in food pricing? I guess you can eat $1 bland soup and plain bread everyday because what’s the point of paying more for food if they are all the same, right?
@@RadenWA I've tried most commercially available types of lobster, crabs and shrimp as well as other relatives which might not be commercially available in store.
The differences in taste are minor, sure Lobster, Crab, Shrimp and Other™ taste different from each other, but the variations between them taste so goddamn similar that it literally is just marketing and prestige that drive the prices.
That Liverpool fan is proactive in life 😅
The person said the hardest part is when you choose a spot and nothing is there. Thats called fishing. Not saying that fishing isn't hard but it isn't anything mind blowing.
Fun fact : Lobsters used to be fed to prisoners. They even protested to only be fed lobster twice a week.
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@@drummergeorge9642 it is true Drummergeorge, and prisoner back then were fed lobster from breakfast to dinner.
@@drummergeorge9642 nah its true
@@drummergeorge9642 times were different, not sure what happened but they once considered lobsters as cockroaches of the sea
@@guardronerguy7122 that's cuz lobsters spoil fast when they die, and people didnt know that bsck then so the lobsters that were being fed to were just rotten trash
Very Good Job, about 100 years the lobster will be extinct.
I am sure it will be a lot sooner than that, humans don't know the meaning of the word "moderation"
Look how cute that baby is at the end of the video. 😃
Now I’m craving lobster.
how to destroy an ecosistem...make it popular
I bet it tastes the same lol. It’s just better looking , so people make it seem like it’s better to sell at higher prices
but but, angus beef are from black cows and they more expensive
@@kouvue7843 Not quite. They are actually a different breed of cattle, and their black colour is only a small portion of their differences from other breeds. Also, beef primarily comes from bulls and heifers, not cows.
Source: Kiwi beef farmer
@@_jacobCrume And because cattle are domesticated, different breeds have undergone selective breeding to concentrate different qualities from milk production to intramuscular fat percentage.
Sea bugs are just seabugs and changes in flavor and meat are up to diet, water quality, and body chemistry.
@@undeadmeats Sea bugs meat also changes taste in different type of water and diet
@@_jacobCrume Yeah well lobsters are even more diverse, plenty of different species.
Thanks
I always saw these while going to eat out at a seafood restaurant good to know
In the UK it is IMPOSSIBLE to find lobster for 17 dollars, (less than £15) per kilo. Definitely not 6 times more valuable.
it looks a lot like a Florida lobster, found in the Florida Keys; key west, FL
Looks good
I wasn't looking at the screen because im eating and i understood nothing but i know the man is a smart one.....he comes from a civilized place that uses the metric system so he already earned my respect
It wasn’t a rock. IT WAS A ROCK LOBSTER!
crazy how supply and demand works.
LOL, and these clowns want government price controls to save their business.
Man I really love these videos. I just wish the subtitled pars was translated. Im too lazy
It’s all hype, later on they’re going to be going crazy for tiger prawns watch!! 12/29/22
The baby pearl lobsters are so precious & look like they are made of Crystals...!
I could just stare at them all day.
It's just sad to me (personal opinion) that us humans always have to seek out for the rarest, most often (without special interventions) resulting in their extinctions.
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If I saw that in real life, I would smack it dead. It looks like silverfish insect 🐜 😅
"ROCK LOBSTA!"
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@@legatelanius4406 lol. IRAQ LOBSTAH!
Those lobster antennae and legs makes my skin crawl 😅😢
I remember paying $100 back in 2017 in Thailand. By far the most expensive meal I have ever paid for.
You got hosed for being a tourist. Locals down the road were probably eating the same thing as you for 50 cents
@@dspsblyuth yep
@@dspsblyuth try and find me a 50 cent lobster and sell it to me, we’ll be millionaires in no time..
Did you see any ladyboys? I hear there everywhere
You over paid. They must be charging you tourist prices
You should do Musand King Durians from Malaysia. King Fox Durian, it is absolutely expensive!
good video
One of the best perks if you grew up on an island. Ive been eating these for free my whole childhood lol
They’re only like 10$ per kg in Sri Lanka
Because China tourist the demand goes higher and price go up
It cost a fortune here where the video is made lol
So a Kilogram is 2.2 pounds and commercial lobster is approximately $25/lb using the author's calculations at [$50/KG] making the pearl lobsters at [$50/lb]. TWICE as much as the commercial variety. Just curious as to how the factor 6X more came to be?
Any mathematicians out there that can explain this arithmetical anomaly?
No Jethroes please! lol.
A normal lobster can cost 5$ to 25$ per pound and 1 million rupiah is 64$.
Sounds a lil like they just winged it.
@@coryyoung7544 Well, it still doesn't explain his math, since rupiahs weren't even mentioned in his opinion.
IE: Commercially bred pearl lobsters sell for about $50 per kilogram, while wild-caught pearl lobsters sell for $99 per kilogram. This makes pearl lobsters more than six times as expensive as Maine lobsters.
@@pauleywallnutz9429 one of the fisherman says each lobster can be worth 1-1.5 million rupiah $64-$96.
They also might have been using the old numbers Maine lobster was selling for $8-$11 a pound last year It looks to be back up to $20-$25 though right now.
Idk I can't actually tell you how they messed that up.
@@coryyoung7544 No worries Cory. Just trying to make sense of the numbers is all. Thanks for your feedback!
The fact that I feel like it's too colorful to eat and is better in an aquarium makes me wanna scream out of anger.
Seems like an intriguing dish. What a hefty price though.
Very cute when they are small, impressive when they are big🙌🏼
YEAH I GET IT THE BIGGER THE BETTER
@@Fommieblox EXACTLY, bigger is always better even if we aren't talking about lobsters anymore.
i have always wanted a lobster as a pet
You should look up Leon the Lobster then. The channel is Bradybrandwood, an he bought one from a grocery store, named it Leon, and kept it as a pet haha
@@Ewl24 bruuuh I see that
try watching leon the lobster on youtube.
get some fresh water crayfish
We were at the beach
Everybody had matching towels
Somebody went under a dock
And there they saw a rock
It wasn't a rock
It was a rock lobster!
Their clear babies are so cute. They’re like glass
They are expensive because someone convinced people that have money that they need to have it. They gave it a fancy name and tricked valuable cash out of gullible pockets. It's brilliant and good on them lol