The Most Frequently Mislabeled Fish

TBI ^ | 12-12-2012 | Dina Spector

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"“I remember recovering bodies from pilots that had crashed in Mobile Bay and their entire faces were removed by the crabs.”

Was these the two Coast Guard helicopter pilots?

"Note to self: No more NanSeas West Indies Salad."

I knew the guy who 'invented' the West Indies Salad, Bill Bayley
I lived less than a mile from his famous restaurant and his son was the next house on my street. That salad is a family favorite.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Were you Coast Guard and if so do you know much about the history of the USCG?

[octex]

Striped Bass is usually caught in the salt water in the Northeast. They do spawn in brackish estuaries and are often caught there but I am unaware that they are caught in fresh water ponds. They can grow to about 60 pounds.
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I believe they are just called ‘stripers’ down here. Lots of them in fresh water, as they were introduced to Lake Texhoma years ago. The lake is between Oklahoma and Texas and is very large. .........The striper is a hybrid fish and grows to about the size you mentioned, but if I’m wrong I welcome any correction.

[VanShuyten]

We don’t trust fish market or supermaket seafood. At our house, we only eat fish if it rode home on our boat.

I don't think I'd go that far, but I certainly prefer fish I can look at and assess over some fillet that could have come from anywhere. I lived awhile in Japan, and learned to be very picky about my fish. Growing up, I liked our lake and river fish if we caught them, and after I moved to Seattle, I started to like fresh seafood, especially the shellfish, but I didn't really appreciate good seafood until I moved to Japan. Needless to say, even though we now live in Virginia, I'm pretty cautious about the seafood I buy.

[Ellendra]

There’s a forum I used to belong to that had a lot of information about aquaponics, and tilapia was one of the most popular fish to raise. The forum is at http://www.backyardaquaponics.com/forum/

You can find all sorts of info there, from tabletop systems up to commercial-scale fish farms.
(I only stopped going there because I was in so many forums I couldn’t keep up with them all. It was one of many that I culled from my list, but it’s still a good forum.)

[logitech]

I thought of Bayley’s when I said West Indies Salad. I forgot he was the inventor. I remember eating there on the way back from The Island. Long time ago.

[kabumpo]

Once you’ve eaten fish and seafood in Louisiana, you will never be the same - everything else tastes like plastic or paper towels by comparison.

[Inwoodian]

You may be right. Usually the size of a fish is affected by the size of the body of water. Perhaps your “stripers” are a hybrid as you say and live and breed in fresh, still water.

[headstamp 2]

“You may be right. Usually the size of a fish is affected by the size of the body of water. Perhaps your “stripers” are a hybrid as you say and live and breed in fresh, still water.”

Striper (Striped Bass) are anadromous fish. They can live in both fresh and salt water. Just like herring, etc.

“Wipers” are hybrids (white and stripers mixed). Striped Bass are “True Bass” and are of the family of White Perch, White Bass and Striped Bass.

“Black Bass” IE. large and small-mouth bass are really of the Sunfish family.