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

[neverdem]

Thanks for the link.

[ApplegateRanch]

That's an odd map. I've caught many a red snapper off Guaymas, in the Gulf of California; and off the northern California coast.

Is it currently open commercial areas?

[ApplegateRanch]

I think I met her, too. No fish that day, but I did get some crabs.

[punster]

I did hear about the democrat girl, who went out on a fishing trip with a bunch of guys and came back with a red snapper.

[hinckley buzzard]

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

You're on!! Love dem yella pike.

[SunkenCiv]

Fish species, right? I mean, not dog or something? ;'D

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

[capt. norm]

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

I use that method for preparing stingray. They end up tasting like scallops but are mush more tender. I don't think most people would want to eat stingray because they look like something from outer space but the little secret is that they are excellent table fare.

We have a problem with restaurants here in Panama City, FL. serving regular grouper and calling it "scamp". A scamp is a species of grouper that is the best eating of the bunch, but they are not all that common.

Also, vermillion snapper (called beeliners locally) and so-called "white snapper" (actually a porgy) are commonly passed off as red snapper.

[OldSmaj]

We have a problem with restaurants here in Panama City, FL. serving regular grouper and calling it "scamp".

Yes, I know.

I've seen scamp on a lot of menus in that area and I know they ain't catching that much of it. Certainly not enough to be putting it on the menu as a daily available item.

Not a bald-faced lie, but they do stretch the descriptions a bit. But if one has not been in a situation wherein seafood is a daily, everyday fare, one isn't able to distinquish as readily.

What the hell, the snowbirds don't know the difference, they've gotten a fairly decent seafood meal, and they walk out with smiles on their faces, the restaurant makes money, the catch gets sold, everybody is happy, right?

The locals know better, that's for sure.

[sheik yerbouty]

I'll bet there was a school of "Coney Island Whitefish"!

[PAR35]

contributing to a false impression that the supply of marine species is keeping up with demand,

They had to slip in the liberal bias at the end.

Another logical conclusion is that the pressure on the fish stocks for desirable species is not as great as thought, since vendors are substituting more common fish for the more desirable species.

[the invisib1e hand]

mucho pescado, amigo.