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Crabbing is much the same--some friends of mine down in the Gulf used to make a living that way. Some of the hardest-working most resourceful people you'll ever meet.

The amount of effort put into these industries boggles the mind.

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Berries are similar. Costco charges several dollars a pint. My wife refuses to buy any. Where she's from (Oregon), they're an invasive weed, and you can pick so much off the branches you can't give them away.

So does she go to Oregon whenever she wants a berry?

Principle of the thing. I don't buy scallops unless I'm down home because the markup on it seem ridiculous (especially since they're usually less fresh and of lesser quality).

That's how I feel about figs. I like them, and will eat lots of them when I'm in Greece or California, but I'm not paying €1 ea. to buy them in Denmark. (Apparently they don't ship well, so are very expensive outside of the areas where they're cultivated.)

Specifically, the Himalayan Blackberry [1] which was imported in the 1800's and escaped. They are a scourge [2] up here in the PNW.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_armeniacus

[2] http://pnw-ipc.org/docs/ManagingHimalayanBlackberry.pdf

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