Do you eat fish?

Don M.

Don M.

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If you buy fish at the store, or at a restaurant, there is a 1 in 5 chance(or more) that you aren't getting what you have paid for. Since the major share of our commercial fish are imported, there is mounting evidence that cheaper fish are being substituted.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/seafoo...finds-1-in-3-businesses-sold-mislabeled-fish/

Couple that with the trend of commercial fish...especially Tilapia....being grown in "sewage pits" in SE Asia, a person needs to be increasingly aware of what they are really buying.
 

Don M.I could live on fish, I heard that about Tilapia and even saw a video on how they are raised. It turned my stomach. I haven't eaten it since. I have heard they do substitute with cheaper fish and sea food. I love scallops and heard they punch them out of large cheap fish and sell them as scallops. Like Falcon said,you have to trust the chefs. I'd take the chance in a decent restaurant rather than do without.
 

I have never touched nor will I ever, Tilapia. I prefer wild caught fish, but there is the danger of over fishing. I've read there are farms well kept and safe but not in SE Asia!
 
I wouldn't worry too much about "sewage pits". Dirty feeders are always good eating.

Crabs and lobsters feed on carrion, and the tastiest shellfish are filter feeders.

I try to eat fish two or three times a week.

I do find most fish from SE Asia tastes muddy. I prefer the waters of the North Atlantic, the Norwegian fjords or your own Alaskan waters.

For freshwater fish I tend to stick to trout, pike and eels. River fish are nearly always muddy.
 
I've never even heard of tilapia, I don't think we get it here, thank goodness by the sound of it...

I eat a lot of fish, mainly wild salmon, wild trout and scallops... ( I used to eat swordfish a lot until I learned there's a lot of mercury in it)...
 
My wife loves a lobster once in awhile. We will go to a steakhouse we know and I will order prime rib along with a lobster. My wife will have the lobster. When Wendy's has their seasonal fish sandwich, I'll get one. A sports bar down the street serves a very nice fish & chips. We will get one order and split it. We also love coconut shrimp or cooked shrimp dipped in shrimp sauce.

Will go back to eating freshly caught, but us, bass and trout, in Colorado.
 
We only eat :
-fresh frozen fish my husband catches in the small lakes and rivers here or
-fresh frozen cod my husbands friends from Newfoundland sends him or he brings home while out there or
-Atlantic salmon from Costco

Its all excellent quality
 
We love fish and because we live near some fishing ports, we can get it virtually straight off the fishing boats.

Here are a couple of pics from Fraserburgh of a small trawler returning to port, and of the large pelagic trawlers who trawl far into the North Sea.

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We eat quite a bit of fresh cod and haddock. It's all locally sourced so I don't worry about foreign substitutions, but there have been some stories . . .

Haddock is usually, but not always, the more expensive of the two. There have been rumors of merchants intentionally mislabeling one for the other to increase profits. Frankly, we can't tell the difference and buy whichever is the less expensive at the time.
Anyone here able to distinguish between haddock and cod by its appearance or flavor? :magnify:
 
Aunt Bea said:
What food in today's world is safe to eat or doesn't get recalled?

Yes, I eat frozen supermarket fish all I can do is read the label and hope for the best.
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Exactly. The best fish to me, but not available fresh out of state, is wild caught Salmon from the Pacific Northwest streams. Of course, if you want to eat that regularly, you need to take out a bank loan.
 
Cod is one of my favorites. I think Haddock is a bit more solid in texture and just a little bit stronger tasting than cod but not by much. Cod seems to flake more when cooked. Haddock more solid. I use Haddock for stew because it doesn't fall apart as easily.
Tommy said:
We eat quite a bit of fresh cod and haddock. It's all locally sourced so I don't worry about foreign substitutions, but there have been some stories . . .

Haddock is usually, but not always, the more expensive of the two. There have been rumors of merchants intentionally mislabeling one for the other to increase profits. Frankly, we can't tell the difference and buy whichever is the less expensive at the time.
Anyone here able to distinguish between haddock and cod by its appearance or flavor? :magnify:
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Tommy said:
We eat quite a bit of fresh cod and haddock. It's all locally sourced so I don't worry about foreign substitutions, but there have been some stories . . .

Haddock is usually, but not always, the more expensive of the two. There have been rumors of merchants intentionally mislabeling one for the other to increase profits. Frankly, we can't tell the difference and buy whichever is the less expensive at the time.
Anyone here able to distinguish between haddock and cod by its appearance or flavor? :magnify:
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Tommy, cooked cod "flakes" into very distinguishable coin-like pieces. Haddock, not so much. I don't get haddock very often, so I'm hazy on how it breaks apart when cooked. Hope this helps.
 
I like fish and especially eat a lot of salmon (fresh fillets bought at Costco). I don't buy fish farmed in Asia.
 
My youngest son is a commercial fisherman
And I fish
So, no issues
Fav is steelhead, then salmon
But
The Alaskan cod and pacific tuna from my son was outstanding

I don’t buy fish in stores

Ate some weird fish in China, once

Turns out it was a great laxative
 
Since we live off the coast of the southern USA we seldom eat fish. We have too many algae problems here now along with Red Tide. Most of our waters are toxic.
 
Haddock is the preferred fish in Scotland. As others have noted, it has a firmer flesh than cod. Cod and Haddock are about the same price here. If I'm making a fish pie, I usually use a cheaper fish like Hake or Ling. I'm also very partial to flatfish such a Megrim, Witch and Brill.
 
The great laxative is funny..:lol1:[ When I was a kid...HAHA and that was (back when), my dad would take us fishing and were always had a fish fry the next day from the fish we caught. Now if you eat the fish from the same streams we fished in, it would be not a good idea. It is so polluted that the crawdads have died. The run off of fertilizer and insecticides from farms is bad, but according to the news reports, they are working on it.. what ever the hell that means..QUOTE=Gary O';992308]My youngest son is a commercial fisherman
And I fish
So, no issues
Fav is steelhead, then salmon
But
The Alaskan cod and pacific tuna from my son was outstanding

I don’t buy fish in stores

Ate some weird fish in China, once

Turns out it was a great laxative[/QUOTE]
 
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