Tomorrow?
Posted on 04/09/2016 8:06:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber
To control the spread of lionfish, ecologists and chefs are trying to make it a mainstream meal option. American seafood enthusiasts have spent years dining on salmon, shrimp, and the occasional mahi mahi. Now a new, rather unexpected fish is starting to creep onto menus and into seafood shelves at supermarkets: lionfish. MORE FROM CIVIL EATS Civil Eats How One Visionary Changed School Food in Detroit What Happens When You Teach Math in the Garden? 5 Things to Know About the Congressional Battle over School Lunch As a growing number of people become aware of the vast environmental havoc this small fish can wreak, a group of fish vendors, chefs, and diners are realizing that the best way to control the threat might just be to eat our way out of it. Seafood Watch, a program that assesses and rates the sustainability of seafood options, started looking into lionfish last year after fielding inquiries from local chefs and consumers who were interested in eating the species. At first, the organization declined to provide a recommendation because there is not yet an established commercial fishery for lionfish, said Ryan Bigelow, outreach program manager for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch. But the more they heard, the more interested they became, and, in October 2015, the group released its first report on lionfish, labeling it a “best choice,” the highest available rating.
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Has anyone here tried this?
Who’s eating Mexican tonight?
I rather like Pacific Slimehead or as it was renamed,
Orange Roughy.
Middle Eastern......
If it tastes good, I’ll eat it! Bring on the lionfish!
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/lionfish/
Just remove the poison spines first, OK?
Tomorrow?
If this is the case, they should do like they used to in SC for hogs; year long open season, no license/tag, any means.
Every state should do this on hogs.
They serve this in Jamaica. We went there last year for a week and it’s really good. They are a venomous fish with about 18 inch dorsal needle like fins- for protection.
We were out on a sail boat with a tour guide who showed us the fish and explained how venomous they were and if stung, very painful to humans, but not deadly.
Only three more platefuls and you can leave.
I’m not eating muslim. Period.
Yes, Lionfish is Excellent!
Went scuba diving in Belize to do the Blue Hole dive.
On the Live aboard dive boat, our captain would stop by a cove or reef to spearfish these footlong+ very poisonous colorful fish.
Back aboard the boat, he’d cut off the deadly dorsal fins very carefully, fillet and cook it for us.
It was delicious sweet tender meat!
It’s now found in restaurant menus around the Carribean.
Lionfish population is now way down as a result of this effort.
RE:”Has anyone here tried it?”
I didn’t think Syrians/Muslims would fry up very well.
If only I didn’t have this fish allergy...
I thought that was renamed to Tilapia.
Now if we could only get Americans to eat bugs—fried grasshopers anyone?
I can’t verify it from personal experience, but I’ve heard that the invasive Snakehead is a very tasty fish.
(Cue photo of ol’ Snakehead, James Carville)
No, but I have eaten Sea Bass, which is not bass, but is a hideously ugly fish. It’s delicious.
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