Farm raised fish. I know - it's a bit out there but does anyone know about it?

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I love me some fish. All kinds of fish, seafood of all kinds really. More and more often it's getting hard to find good fish. The last package I got showed from Chile, farm raised.

I know to avoid fish from China, but what about other places? This wasn't very good fish. Also, is there anyone who's found good fish/seafood that I can order?
 
Our old friend Ralph Martin raised Cat fish in AL until his passing, I don't know if his son has continued.
 
Don't fear farmed fish. If you order Barramundi in Austraila it was likely farmed in Vietnam.

And it's very good. Go to Vietnam and you will pay a fraction of the price you will pay in Australia. And get the shrimp there. It's farmed and much better than anything you will get here short of fresh caught shrimp in Louisiana.
 
That's why my farm fish was from Chile. I had red snapper from Ireland a few weeks back and it was pretty poor as well.

Makes me upset. When I was a kid, we had fish two or three times a week. It was great, with aroma, flavor, and that tender smooth texture. The snapper I just had was like rubber and had no aroma at all. I think it was just grouper that was tinted with red dye, and maybe some cumin and lemon on it.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Don't fear farmed fish. If you order Barramundi in Austraila it was likely farmed in Vietnam.

And it's very good. Go to Vietnam and you will pay a fraction of the price you will pay in Australia. And get the shrimp there. It's farmed and much better than anything you will get here short of fresh caught shrimp in Louisiana.
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Yep. :thumbsup:
 
There are really two kind soy farm raised fish I can think of. One is raised on terrestrial farms in pools and ponds. They are actually a form of bioremediation (they each garbage). Mostly catfish, though I imagine it can be done with tilapia and some other fish.

Farmed salmon and other marine fish are raised in marine pens, the populations are concentrated making acquisition more facile and less expensive. The problem with farms in general is they're bad for the environment, and fish farms are no exception. Diseases also spread much more quickly. I think a lot of shrimp are raised this way as well.
 
I'm from MS, I think every catfish sold at restaurants there is farmed.

I buy all my seafood from a local seafood market just down the road.
 
bartmc said:
I'm from MS, I think every catfish sold at restaurants there is farmed.

I buy all my seafood from a local seafood market just down the road.
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Catfish are quite easy to farm. My mother in law has been doing it for decades. In fact, a major pet food manufacturer even makes catfish chow.
 
Cruiser said:
Go here:

http://www.portclintonfish.com/

you will never have better. :thumbsup:
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Um, I don't want to be rude, you see I'm working on my online manners but this place gets all it's fish from lake Erie. Yes - lake Erie, the one that caught on fire. The one that borders Detroit, Dearborn, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo. Heck, maybe I already get some fish from there, but it seems like a place someone who is kinda particular about their fish wouldn't enjoy. I could be wrong of course.
 
docmirror said:
Um, I don't want to be rude, you see I'm working on my online manners but this place gets all it's fish from lake Erie. Yes - lake Erie, the one that caught on fire. The one that borders Detroit, Dearborn, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo. Heck, maybe I already get some fish from there, but it seems like a place someone who is kinda particular about their fish wouldn't enjoy. I could be wrong of course.
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Lake Erie has cleaned up a lot since they let in the Zebra mussels. You can see the bottom when you fly over. :)
 
steingar said:
Farmed salmon and other marine fish are raised in marine pens, the populations are concentrated making acquisition more facile and less expensive. The problem with farms in general is they're bad for the environment, and fish farms are no exception. Diseases also spread much more quickly. I think a lot of shrimp are raised this way as well.
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Here in BC they farm Atlantic salmon in pens in some rivers and the ocean. Some of these non-native fish escape and start to out-eat the Pacific salmon and other fish, an those in river pens have been blamed for the low sockeye spawning runs in the last few years. They eat the fry as they're moving down the river on their way to the sea, and those that blunder into the pens don't get out the other side. The pens are just wire fences.

When we were living in Alberta we missed the seafood, so bought some salmon at the grocery store. It tasted horrible. Looked at the label, and it was Atlantic farmed salmon. I read somewhere that they feed these fish alfalfa pellets, among other cheap junk. No wonder they taste awful. Salmon like to eat herring and shrimp and other live stuff.

For those that like to read, Howard White wrote a book called Writing In The Rain, and a chapter describes his hilarious misadventures while transporting several slimy loads of disease-killed farm fish to the dump. Through town. Leaking out of the dump truck seams. Very funny. The whole book is like that.

Dan
 
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Dan stated the biggest reason we don't farm salmon, disease, these pens were located just a mile east of Deception Pass, these pens devastated the king runs on the Skagit River. We now have no spring kings runs because of the over fishing by the native american and the disease from these pens that sat right in the tidal flow of the Skagit.
 

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docmirror said:
Um, I don't want to be rude, you see I'm working on my online manners but this place gets all it's fish from lake Erie. Yes - lake Erie, the one that caught on fire. The one that borders Detroit, Dearborn, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo. Heck, maybe I already get some fish from there, but it seems like a place someone who is kinda particular about their fish wouldn't enjoy. I could be wrong of course.
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Lake Erie did not catch on fire. You are thinking of the Cuyahoga River.
 
Henning said:
No, they don't. They have some spawning pens for protecting juveniles, but they come down and and the fish go to sea.
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Starter pens, and yes the fish are released when they have a better rate of survival. farming no, helping the runs, yes.
 
dmspilot said:
Lake Erie did not catch on fire. You are thinking of the Cuyahoga River.
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Point taken. Which river empties into Erie, which is the terminus for all the products of combustion. And I realize it's been cleaned up a lot since the 70s.
 
docmirror said:
Um, I don't want to be rude, you see I'm working on my online manners but this place gets all it's fish from lake Erie. Yes - lake Erie, the one that caught on fire. The one that borders Detroit, Dearborn, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo. Heck, maybe I already get some fish from there, but it seems like a place someone who is kinda particular about their fish wouldn't enjoy. I could be wrong of course.
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Thanks to those vile nasty anti patriotic environmental regulation that those damned Liberals! pushed through in the early 70s, the lakes a quite safe, with the addition of those illegal immigrant Russians they are actually quite clear as well.
 
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