Fish Warning!!

Not having any fish in the freezer at the time and with me being hungry for fish mama bought and fried me some Talapia a couple of years back......never again, they were flat and tasteless.
 
It's not only Tilapia...much of the frozen fish in the grocery stores is coming from Asia...and is grown in pits of little more than raw sewage. The ONLY fish I will eat are those that I catch in our local lakes.
 
I've never bought tilapia, not even back when it was extremely cheap. Not sure why I never did because I do love fish from the sea, but I only buy "caught in the wild" as opposed to "farm raised."

Thanks for the warning, Ken.
 
I read an article years ago about Talapia-in fact,I had never even heard of it (yet) back then. I was gagging as I read it and swore then and there I would never eat it. I have to look away when I see it in the store because it makes me sick to even look at the word lol. And I LOVE fish.
 
Ken N Tx said:
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Tilapia DO have bones and skin, otherwise they wouldn't be fish. They're a member of the Cichlidae family (related to angelfish). They are also not a single fish - there are hundreds of "variations" of this species.

They have been found in the wild since the days of ancient Egypt. In fact, in some areas they are considered an invasive species.

In comparison to bacon and hamburgers, they are much lower in calories and fat.

When it comes to dioxins, tilapia are no better or worse than many other farmed fish. Just stay away from the stuff grown outside the U.S.


As for taste? Never tried it, don't really want to.
 
I have been very careful about buying fish since reading about the sewage conditions in which they are raised in Asia. I get only "caught in the wild" or American farmed.
 
I don't buy any fish or seafood that isn't caught/raised in the USA or Canada. Recently at the store I was looking at bags of crawfish that had a distinctly "cajun" name on the label. When I read the fine print, they were from China. I was annoyed that they would stoop to labeling the product as if it came from Louisiana. So please read labels, people.
 
I only eat sea fish and living near some fishing ports, we can buy it fresh virtually straight off the boat. I've never really cared for freshwater fish like trout, much of which is farmed. However, I think there is a lot of scaremongering about food.
 
Seems like there was a scandal/story in the news a few years back about how common it was to find fish intentionally mislabeled along the way in the supply chain. Not sure what you can do about that unless you buy whole fish from a market and know what you are doing. And as I recall some of it was about disguising some low-cost "trash fish" as a more expensive variety.
 
I've heard bad things about Tilapia for years now, the only time I tried it was when my mother in law made some, and I didn't like it at all, never had it again. They say it's the "tofu of the sea".
 

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