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

[scottybk]

Freeper Recipe Corner: The only way to cook this fish is whole, head-on. Have your fishmonger gut and scale the fish, then stuff the cavity w/ fresh oregano, fine chopped tomatoes, red onion slices, and a crush clove of garlic.Toss a few pats of butter in there to, and some butter/lemon slices on top of the fish. Wrap the whole fish in tin foil so it's tightly sealed and will steam w/in the foil. For a 3 lb fish, bake it in a 350 degree oven for 35-40 minutes. Open foil. Enjoy!

[Hank Rearden]

[phxaz]

i think your self-description "amazed" is too kind. walleye and great lakes perch are the best. mods.. close thread. (it's true.)

[LiveFreeOrDie2001]

HA!

You never tasted my Walleye !!

You or any other FReeper come to Minnesota and I'll make the best Walleye you ever tasted !

[Strategerist]

Oh, I've had a variety of supposed freshwater delicacies...Yellow Perch, etc.

Not even remotely comparable to stuff like Black Sea Bass....

[Dog Gone]

Fish is pretty much fish. I can tell the difference between tuna and cod, or swordfish and catfish, but you know, it's pretty much all fish. Some fresh lemon juice and a little salt and the only difference to me is a mild variation in texture.

[George W. Bush]

No surprise here.

I think there's a lot of fraud in seafood, misrepresentations about quality, freshness and, as the article points out, even what species you're eating.

This is why seafood is one of the most dangerous things you can buy, even more so in restaurants.

[I wonder if I still have some scrod in the freezer...]

[Denver Ditdat]

Pickerel for me. Mmmmmm.

[eddie willers]

Carp.

[AlexW]

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

I remember that joke from over 40 years ago.
I was going to quote it here, but thought otherwise ;)

[snooker]

snooker likes red snapper.

But, This is an old story. Been around for over 25 years. Red Snapper cost money to catch. Grouper are almost as good and cheaper to catch.

snooker catches his own red snapper.

[Moonmad27]

This thread wouldn't have been complete without that exact UHF reference. Thanks!

[HockeyPop]

Red snapper is indeed fine but not the best tasting snapper. The award goes to the queen snapper and to catch them you have to deep drop 1400 feet with wire line and an electric reel.

[Nov3]

You obviously have never eaten properly spiced and fried bream or crappie. My wife (Katie_Colic) hates fish and our last batch was eaten cold the next day for BREAKFAST. I would have never believed it.

[sergeantdave]

Walleye is my favorite.

And no, you can't deep fry wallpaper and pass it off as walleye.

[antaresequity]

Red Snapper on the West Coast in the San Francisco area is typically Pacci Cod or sometimes 'Reds'...

Snapper don't even live around here.

Nonetheless, you can go to Safeway or any local market and buy snapper...Its friggin Rock Cod...

Clueless public...

[Ptarmigan]

I feel so cheated.

[Flying Circus]

It is a function of sample size. Just like the +/- n% you see on polls. For all statistics, larger samples = smaller error; smaller samples = larger error. In this case they only have a sample size of 22 so the error bars are wider.

[NationSoConceived]

The margin of error comes from the small size of the sample. They only tested 22 fish from random locations. The margin of error is therefore large. If they had collected and tested more samples, the margin of error would be smaller.

For an excellent overview of basic statistical sampling, look here:
http://www.custominsight.com/articles/random-sampling.asp
This is good general knowledge for understanding polls, fish mislabeling, the number of green m&m's in a package, etc, etc, etc.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the reminder. I need a refresher course in statistics.