Ideas of Shellfish

The definition of shellfish is general and has no biological significance but its use is wide and is used in economic activities.

- In the broadest sense, shellfish means all molluscs with a pair of shells (see Bivalves). With this understanding, it is more appropriate to call it shellfish and commensurate with the meaning of clam used in America. Examples of such usage can be seen in the term "craft from shells".

- The word shellfish can also mean all the shells that its life is attached to an object. These include edible species, such as shellfish and green shell (kupang awung), but do not include edible species but lying on sand or bottom waters, such as lokan and mussels.

- Scallops are also used to refer to various shell-shelled thick, calcareous, with radial patterns on a firm shell. In this sense, green shells are not included and more properly called kupang. The closest understanding in English is cockle.

- In the most narrow sense, what is referred to as mussels are blood clams (Anadara granosa), a type of common cultivation shells found in the Indo-Pacific region and sold in many stalls or restaurants selling seafood.

Craft shells are one of the well-known craft, many are beginning to plunge to harness shells. Because so many shells that were stranded on the beach, making it a waste that notabennya not useful. But, precisely it is to be one of the early emergence of shell craft.

The emergence of ideas and innovations to use shell shells to be a more useful item, and created this craft. The craftsmen cultivate shellfish that are exposed on the beach, and with the creativity of the craftsmen then made a craft of high value in the market.