Seafood Scams

a reply to: JAGStorm

“JAGStorm
posted on Oct, 5 2021 @ 12:48 a reply to: PiratesCut

C’mon Pirate man, give us some good stories. Tell us something that we really didn’t want to know!
Something the average fish buyer had no clue about!!”

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Ok JAGStorm, because you ask so nicely and I really enjoy your OP’s and thoughtful replies to others. Wether I agree with your stance on subjects or not makes no difference, we are here for dialog, exchange of ideas…..no?

Where to begin, hmmmm………🤔

I very, very rarely BUY seafood and if I do it’s usually for a special occasion where I either don’t have the time to get it off a boat or I simply can’t find what I need.
There is only one seafood market I go to, they buy all their local stuff right off the boats here before it goes through the auction house to the large buyers and processors.
The big fish houses run ALL their products through a chemical soup of preservatives that can include antibiotics and even chemical dyes. They also use this because everything also gains a lot of water weight in this process.

If you do go to a super market look at the display tins of say Scallops for instance. You’ll see they sit in something that looks like milk, this is the chemical bath the scallops went through that is leaching out of the meat that you are seeing.

It would literally take a book to tell this story as I know it.

Shrimp, I like shrimp better than lobster but win’t touch the farmed crap the sell now…..period,

Shellfish, Soft shell clams for clam bakes, unless I know where exactly they come from….nope!
Mud can be and often is very, very polluted.
Quahogs or hard shelled clams are a huge scam too.
The state hires boats to go into closed areas, areas of extremely high pollution to harvest huge amounts of these mollusks for transplant into areas where they can be dug and sold for human consumption after they have been given “enough time” after transplant to “flush themselves of pollution”, uh-huh….
A lot of them *(in my learned opinion)* never even make it to the transplant grounds but end up in markets far and wide.
Think these guys care about what people in, say Colorado are getting for their “Clams Casino”?

Summer Codfish, A lot of Cod come in-shore during the Summer months. Cod eat anything that moves and will fit down their throats. We have large Seal populations here now and Cod love Seal Poop.
The parasites and worms in Summer Cod is just plain nasty!
Nope, Nope…..

Oysters………yeah, no! Unless I know exactly where they come from, Nope, No Way!!!

I could go on and in and on and on but you get it I’m sure.

Hope this helps satisfy some of your curiosity.
It’s really not a subject I like to talk much about and I’ve truly found that people in general “Love Their Seafood”
and genuinely don’t want to know.

That’s kinda weird to me but, so be it.
Who am I to rain on peoples parade? ENJOY!! 🤯

a reply to: Grenade

Is there no real difference at the supermarket between their salmon behind the counter on the ice, and their salmon in the styrofoam in the cooler, then usually?

Unfortunately I am as landlocked as can be.

So great steak/game meat.

Hard to find good sea food.


a reply to: PiratesCut

a reply to: chris_stibrany

My best suggestion, look for Atlantic Salmon from Canada.
There are good products coming out of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
You can get excellent Atlantic Salmon from Maine as well!
May I suggest you do some online research and consider buying tight from the source?
It will probably cast more but once you’ve been able to compare it to what’s usually found in markets you’ll have a hard time enjoying anything else……

I have found that frozen Arctic Cod from Alaska is a pretty good product, it’s cheap and pretty good quality….usually.

a reply to: PiratesCut

That sounds really good. We have been locally sourcing almost all of our meat from local ranches and it is so much better. Plus you get good deals on bulk.

a reply to: chris_stibrany

Wanna trade some 2” Porterhouse Steaks for Scallops, Live Lobsters and Haddock fillets???

Joking really, the shipment costs would be very high
since live lobsters demand overnight Fed-Ex flights.
Over the years I have sent these things to friends and family that moved away but only for serious celebrations.

I mentioned only doing business with one local Seafood Market, Kylers Catch.

While I don’t have a dog in this fight so to speak I was very good friends with the founders grandson (Jay…Kyle is Jays sons name btw) until he passed away. This gave me true knowledge of how they do business and how they buy and handle their Seafood.
I’ve been through the filleting, processing and packaging rooms as well as their refrigerator and freezing rooms many times. In years past I even went with my deceased friend to get shipments of fresh catches right off the boats.
I still have friends that work there and I solidly trust the place.
Here is a link to Kylers Catch, look it over thoroughly.
There is a call now tab on the page and if intrigued, do call. You can ask them any questions, they are patient and will answer questions without blowing smoke up your butt.
They ship A LOT of fresh seafood to people all over the country. You can certainly ask them about Atlantic Salmon or ask for suggestions. They won’t automatically steer you to the most expensive stuff………


www.kylerseafood.com...

Enjoy!!!

DaPirate…………😎

a reply to: PiratesCut

Cheers,me hearty.

The worst though (especially if you avoid pork).

Are calamari rings sometimes made from pig's anuses?
slate.com...

A while back a lot of restaurants were selling "panga" (Vietnamese catfish).

Whether it's dodgy reputation as a product is deserved, I don't know.

But what was dodgy is that many restaurants fraudulently sold it as much more expensive line-fish.

And it might not be Kosher either.

originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: JAGStorm
Call me a barbarian but I prefer the taste of Atlantic salmon to sock eye.

But sockeye is so much healthier (a lot more of the healthy omega 3's etc)... and cooked rare, it tastes fantastico, especially when dipped in a lemon butter sauce!

originally posted by: Grenade
a reply to: PiratesCut
As for scallops, amazing with some bacon and a little garlic. Pure magic.

The only thing I've ever had that I liked better than scallps (was amazed too) were very large sea snails that we caught ourselves off the reefs of Marcus Island (MinamiToriShima)...

Now I have to go see if I can buy those anywhere... or, maybe I'll start importing them.

a reply to: tanstaafl

The thing that turned me off is we always cook fish at least medium like they say you should and I love the balanced flavour of the Atlantic salmon.
When we had salmon a la sockeye it was like.... too 'gamey' i love game meat so that's not a good comparison. its hard to describe.
too ....bitey?
There was something off.
Maybe it wasn't real sockeye.
As the gentlemen above say don't buy seafood from the supermarket well its really my only affordable choice.

My tongue is sensitive and the sockeye was a bit like eating a ...bitter salmon.

originally posted by: chris_stibrany
a reply to: tanstaafl
My tongue is sensitive and the sockeye was a bit like eating a ...bitter salmon.

Very possible it was just bad... sitting out too long, got warm, whatever. I've had that happen and gotten bad ones, I always take it back and get a refund when that happens.

I seem to have pretty good luck at our local Whole Foods, hardly every have to bring any fresh seafood or red meat back.