Which do you prefer? "Seafood" from the Great Lakes? Or seafood from the oceans?

[Gerania]

Originally Posted by weltschmerz

Mudbugs??
Is that the same as crayfish?

Yes, it is.

[Miss Hepburn]

Looking up bottom feeders in case anyone asked...I am
very unhappy that sole and orange roughy are BFs.

Oh well.

[elston]

When I was a kid, my father was an excellent fisherman (fresh water)....we regularly had bass on the menu...and my brother and I were good at catching yellow perch and we ate a lot of those too. We caught but didn't eat the crappies and blue gills....we just didn't consider them food fish.

Fishing wasn't just for sport....it was counted on as part of the food budget. At the time we lived inland New England...lots of bass ponds and lakes. Later we moved to RI and the diet had much more seafood....Dad caught flounder and blue fish mostly and we gathered mussels and went quohogging....and occasionally caught blue crabs.

I still love the sea food.....the fresh water fish not so much.

[gentlearts]

I had to go with ocean, since my favorites are swordfish, tuna and grouper, but Lake Erie Perch is wonderful also.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Cliffie

I'm the opposite -- lived on the Great Lakes all my life and love the fish caught there. Ocean fish is OK, but not the taste of home.

Yeah, I think with watery creatures as with most foods, our memories of what we grew up with have at least as much influence as the food itself over our current preferences.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

No fish from the Great Lakes around here.

We eat fresh caught high mountain lake trout and freshly caught ocean salmon, or salmon that has just left the ocean to swim upstream (still in the bays)

There is a fisherman in the family and I am hoping for fresh halibut, dungeness crab, and albacore next spring (brand new boat)