The Free States did, in fact, entertain such an option. If corraled and domesticated, mirelurks can be a flexible supply of food. They also grow remarkably fast, requiring just a few weeks for them to reach maturity. However, the size of the meat market means competition is stiff and suppliers can be targeted by rivals attempting to knock them out of the market (sometimes literally). Mirelurk hunters or herders can count on a steady demand for their meat and make a high profit selling it to wasteland traders. Mirelurks are also known to have a pronounced sensitivity towards white noise, as seen in Vault 92 and on Spectacle Island.Īlthough mirelurks tend to inhabit polluted rivers, coastal waters, and sewers, their meat is considered a delicacy among wastelanders. The knowledge that mirelurks were much smaller before the bombs dropped and mutated them still persists among some wastelanders in the Commonwealth. As such, wasteland scholars generally assign it its own classification: Scylla serrata horrendus. As such, it would be necessary to catalog it simultaneously as belonging to the Crustacea and the Chelicerate phylums, with the simultaneous classification of two distinct classes ( Merostomata and Malacostraca). The crab mirelurk, for example, contains multiple phylum markers from two distinct and unrelated species: The Atlantic Horseshoe Crab ( Limulus polyphemus) and the Atlantic Blue Crab ( Callinectes sapidus). Attempts to classify the resulting creatures have proven difficult. In the ensuing melting pot of mutations, the modern mirelurks emerged.
Īlthough the Great War put an end to corporate pollution, it was replaced by overwhelming amounts of nuclear fallout instead.
Of course, it neglected to mention that the average increase in mass on the order of 14% in crabs and 12% in lobsters meant that the available food supply would run out quickly, leading to colony collapse and localized extinction. The media ignored their reports as well, except for running a story about the upcoming shellfish season and how great it was going to be. Ignored by authorities, to the point where they refused to even take their phone calls (as was the case with the Boston Port Authority), they attempted to garner attention by reporting the situation to the Galaxy News Network. Environmental organizations such as Nahant Oceanological Society, dedicated to saving the oceans, attempted a variety of last-ditch efforts to raise awareness of this problem and encourage radical action to curtail environmental destruction at the hands of reckless corporations. Mirelurks have the dubious distinction of being one of the first radioactive mutants to emerge into the world, as a result of widespread radioactive pollution of the environment by United States megacorporations such as Poseidon Energy and General Atomics.
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