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Most over-fished, so I hear, is the bluefin tuna. Numbers have been reduced by 90 percent. Albacore is much better managed. Alaskan pollock is pretty abundant, but mostly because some of the biggest fish nuts in the world don't clamor for it. Top picks: Safe, sustainable fish | MNN - Mother Nature Network
Tilapia is supposed to be the most sustainable fish. It's a freshwater fish and has no intrinsic flavor whatsoever. I'll eat tofu before I'll eat tilapia - heck, I'll eat fried catfish fins (which are pretty good, by the way) before I'll eat tilapia.
Tilapia is supposed to be the most sustainable fish. It's a freshwater fish and has no intrinsic flavor whatsoever. I'll eat tofu before I'll eat tilapia - heck, I'll eat fried catfish fins (which are pretty good, by the way) before I'll eat tilapia.
now that is really funny!! You made my morning...
I am not a huge tilapia lover, it is pretty flavorless, but it is cheap and is healthy. We do have it about once a month. We get it at Sam's crusted in whatever, so it has a little flavor and I am sure would be better that cat fish fins.
This is a good question and something worth investigating, if we could find a truly legit study that doesn't have an agenda attached to it. I think, because of so many fish farms, probably there are not that many over fished, but raised in a pond, on a fish farm isn't the same as putting that pole in the water and fishing for that wonderful fresh trout.
Look at the prices. If it is really expensive, it is over-fished and supply is low. You aren't paying $22 a pound for swordfish because they are hauing in 5,000 tons every day for 365 days a year. You oay $22 a pound because there isn't much of it available.
Talapia makes a great fresh tuna salad sandwich, but I won't buy it because I can't find any that does not come from China and I don't buy food from China.
Look at the prices. If it is really expensive, it is over-fished and supply is low. You aren't paying $22 a pound for swordfish because they are hauing in 5,000 tons every day for 365 days a year. You oay $22 a pound because there isn't much of it available.
Talapia makes a great fresh tuna salad sandwich, but I won't buy it because I can't find any that does not come from China and I don't buy food from China.
Hmm -- if I get tilapia, I buy it from the asian grocery stores in my area and they have it live swimming in tanks. Doesn't get much fresher than that.
Most saltwater fish is overfished and very difficult to farm successfully, and certainly not to any great size. Sad but true. However, fresh mussels are almost always sustainably raised -- they are saltwater, but since they attach themselves to pilings/poles, they can be "farmed" in saltwater rivers, bays and estuaries and without need to use antibiotics or worries about fish sludge buildup like you get in pond farmed fishes. Because of that, it's one of the few seafoods that I will eat with any regularity.
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I really don't like tilapia nor any other fresh water fish. I like ocean fish like halibut, cod, orange roughy, tuna, swordfish and so on. I understand that orange roughy is slow growing and late to mature making it extremely over-fished.
...Orange roughy was an excellent fish that was overfished and is now unobtainable.
They should have kept its original name, Slimehead, and fewer people would have eaten it.
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