Scientists Find 75 Percent Of Red Snapper Sold In Stores Is Really Some Other Species

Via Science Daily ^ | 2004-07-15 | University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill

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[FesterUSMC]

Fester likes Red Snapper :^D

[atomicpossum]

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....RED SNAPPER! Very Tasty!

[Pajama Blogger]

Snap

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I love my fish heads
I take them to the movies...

[Kornev]

Crap

[fat city]

I knew a girl who used to go fishing with a bunch of us guys and she always came back with.... nevermind

[OldSmaj]

"The remarkable extent of product mislabeling of red snapper threatens to distort the status of fish stocks in the eyes of consumers, contributing to a false impression that the supply of marine species is keeping up with demand," Marko said.

Hmmm.

Wonder if that applies to so-called scallops that in truth, are just pollock and white fish cut with a cookie cutter?

Very common to find in Chinese restaurants, particularly those with an "all-you-can-eat" seafood buffet.

I would venture to say that perhaps 75% of the public does not truly know what a scallop tastes like.

Or looks like, for that matter.

[mc6809e]

Let me say right now, Steel head trout is way better than salmon. How does red snapper compare to steel head?

[GSlob]

Is CBS in any way connected to/responsible for fish labeling?

[neverdem]

"Our work has a margin of error of 17 percent,"

I'd like to know how they derived that margin of error, when DNA technology is promoted as virtually infallible. Maybe they took a bunch of short cuts.

[mylife]

Mmmm Red Snapper with champagne sauce

[mylife]

steelhead and salmon are similar fish with a high oil content

Red snapper is very differnt from both of those fish.

You must be Up North eh?

[BipolarBob]

There's something fishy about that report.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[Sam Cree]

I think scallops are cut out of stingrays, not whitefish.

Probably a good thing that they are selling other things for red snapper, I doubt there's enough red snapper to go around.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Upon occasion, I venture into a Vinnie's, a local (Charlotte area) chain bearing certain resemblances to the Hooter's chain. Ostensibly, it's a seafood place, but food's not really the main attraction. The bartenders/waitresses are the first factor; then the cold cheap beer (dollar domestic draft days always draw a crowd); and the food is a distant third place.

Nonetheless, I've actually had lunch there a few times. One day, while I was getting ready to (or, as we say in NC, "fixing to") order lunch at the bar, the lovely and doubly talented bartender leaned over (which was fairly thrilling in itself) and whispered to me that "today, the grouper really is grouper").

It was pretty good, too -- at least, what I remember of it. I was a bit distracted.

[Stars N Stripes]

Let me just say that, this whole thread sounds a little fishy...

[Strategerist]

It amazes me people bother to eat any fresh water fish at all, really.

[phxaz]

100% sure of the individual fish. not so sure about every fish being sold as red snapper.