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Gravity Aided

Legendary Member
Location
Land of Lincoln
The other one to watch out for is Basa aka river cobbler a type of catfish from Vietnam which can be passed off as cod. I believe the USA have banned it.

I think @Reynard had some a while ago. Not for me.
I don't think it has been banned, it is just called Swai over here, to avoid it being confused with catfish, which it was being sold as. Actually, testing revealed that people preferred its' taste to Catfish. Catfish farming has powerful friends in government, though, so Basa gets called Swai. I think tariffs may be higher as well. For me, if I want to eat Cod, I buy Cod. Accept no substitutes.
 

woodbutcher

Veteran
Location
S W France
The other one to watch out for is Basa aka river cobbler a type of catfish from Vietnam which can be passed off as cod. I believe the USA have banned it.

I think @Reynard had some a while ago. Not for me.
Thought you might like to see the boat l used to help out on from time to time when l was a youngster.
BN27 didn't look like she does now, fully restored and living in Bremerhaven not Boston Lincs.
sbhv2015_0140.jpg
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Interesting, I'm a Geordie myself, but never caught a dogfish when I lived there. But now they are everywhere. The Bristol channel is full of them.
Got dogfish mainly in creels when fishing for prawns {langoustine to you}. A few years ago there was an English guy with an ancient French trawler who had set lines off the entrance to Loch Sunart and seemed to catch enough to make it pay when selling to an English market. At the time I was for my sins effectively piermaster of the Fisherman's Pier and I had to keep shifting him off as I was frightened the boat would sink and block the pier. He eventually abandoned it on the non working side of the pier and one of the larger boats here towed it out to deep water where it accidentally sank.
 
I want a refund on the weather forecast - it was pishing it with rain this morning and they said it would be sunny. :angry: Now it's warm, overcast and breezy.

Anyways, I had a kitchen morning instead of cutting grass. So stewed the rhubarb I bought the other day, dough made, tomato sauce made, onions, peppers, courgettes and mushrooms sauteed and pepperoni sliced.

Pizza night tonight! ^_^

And I've managed to get the penultimate verse of "Love Lingers Softly" to behave. Now it's just the last verse (easier said than done) and just polishing some of the phrasing. Gawd this one's been a right pain...
 
The cover all name for such a fish used to be a "flatty" or maybe "flattie" ...... maybe thats not a good selling name tho' :smile:

I think that's what it's going to have to be :laugh:

Difficult to say without a picture. Might have been a flounder, they can have dark spots. Could also have been a brill, but they are more rounded, or even a baby turbot.

It's a bit late in the day for a picture. :laugh: It was the wrong shape for a flounder, closest would be a brill, except it wasn't, because the fins were wrong for a brill. Definitely not a turbot, it wasn't fugly enough.

Whatever it was, it was very nice - beautiful, delicate fish. If I'd have paid the full whack, I'd have wanted it to be what it said on the label, but as it was well reduced on sticker, I'm not fussed. Most people probably wouldn't have noticed that it wasn't plaice anyways.
 
The other one to watch out for is Basa aka river cobbler a type of catfish from Vietnam which can be passed off as cod. I believe the USA have banned it.

I think @Reynard had some a while ago. Not for me.

I love basa. So do Poppy and Lexi - it's one of their favourite things to eat.

There was a scam about ten years ago where a lot of chippies were passing it off as cod. Basa is lovely fish, but there's no way it could be mistaken for cod as the texture is totally different. :wacko:
 

Salar

A fish out of water
Location
Gorllewin Cymru
It's a bit late in the day for a picture. :laugh: It was the wrong shape for a flounder, closest would be a brill, except it wasn't, because the fins were wrong for a brill. Definitely not a turbot, it wasn't fugly enough.

Thing is if you bought it at Tescos it could be from anywhere in the world.

No excuses now, I expect a nice drawing. :smile:
 
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