re: Zea's trout

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Where do they farm raise specs at? Haven't heard of that before. Unless it's a new thing. Trout coming out of Mexico has always been wild trout from what I gathered. We used to buy truck loads of tuna out of Mexico and had a contact to buy wild speckle trout from similar areas where we got the tuna.





Texas. Texas has a huge farming industry at the moment.

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What farms in Texas? I can't find any info online about it and I know as of 2-3 years ago there were none.

I know texas has a few different redfish farms. Copper Shoals redfish farm and Redfish Unlimited are two that I have bought from wholesale. I think there were one or two other ones but all of them only did fresh redfish.

All of the wholesale fish processors in the city had to basically beg for speckle trout because it was so hard to get and the supply was inconsistent on it.

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Our guys are shipping them elsewhere for more money, leaving us to have to import.

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The only fresh local fish that gets shipped out of state is red snapper and sometimes grouper. There isn't a lot of fish caught in LA anymore. It's basically black drum, small amounts of flounder, yellowfin tuna & offshore bycatch (swordfish,mahi,wahoo,escolar,etc.), red snapper, small amounts of cobia/lemon fish, small amounts of grouper, small amounts of amberjack,etc.

Everything else fresh is brought in from the west coast (lobsters, clams, scallops, salmon, misc. fish) and South America (snappers,salmon,grouper,mahi,tuna,excolar,wahoo,eetc.) Fresh yellowfin is also imported from Asia(mostly Vietnam).