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re: What's Your Favorite "Trash Fish" to Eat?
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:29 am to Matisyeezy
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:29 am to Matisyeezy
Wow this thread here.
Yezzy I have never read a better series of post from you.
R2R, stop acting all R2R in here. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that redfish at one time were considered trash fish. Just type "redfish trash fish" in your google machine and take a look. The more you know brother.
Yezzy I have never read a better series of post from you.
R2R, stop acting all R2R in here. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that redfish at one time were considered trash fish. Just type "redfish trash fish" in your google machine and take a look. The more you know brother.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:38 am to Deactived
For me the definition of a trash fish is one where there is not a legal commercial market for them. These are some off of the top of my head.
Gafftop catfish
Hardhead catfish
Bonita (although asians do eat them)
oil fish (look like an escolar but is supposed to be poisounous)
Some fish that I consider to not be that good but there is still a market for them:
Hardtail/Blue Runners (Asians love oily fish)
Spanish Mackeral
Mullet (bigger market for them in Florida-here they are bought for their eggs)
Garfish (always had a market for garfish, mostly sold in central to north Louisiana, we used to clean tons of these, some nasty smelling fish for sure)
Blacktip shark
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Gafftop catfish
Hardhead catfish
Bonita (although asians do eat them)
oil fish (look like an escolar but is supposed to be poisounous)
Some fish that I consider to not be that good but there is still a market for them:
Hardtail/Blue Runners (Asians love oily fish)
Spanish Mackeral
Mullet (bigger market for them in Florida-here they are bought for their eggs)
Garfish (always had a market for garfish, mostly sold in central to north Louisiana, we used to clean tons of these, some nasty smelling fish for sure)
Blacktip shark
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:45 am to TigerWise
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thought it was pretty common knowledge that redfish at one time were considered trash fish. Just type "redfish trash fish" in your google machine and take a look.
When was this? Not disagreeing, just never heard of this. I may have to ask my dad on this one. He's 73 now and been in the seafood industry since he was like 13-14 years old. Only went to school until the 8th grade.
Redfish became a lot more popular in the 80's due to Paul Prudohmme. It was still popular before that I'm pretty sure.
At one time, sheephead was a trash fish. The only fish that I can think of being trash fish that we now eat today is mullet(before harvesting them for their eggs), sheephead,and yellowfin tuna.
This post was edited on 7/9/14 at 6:56 am
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:50 am to JasonL79
Trigger fish. Was a time not long ago when charter captains shunned them...not now. Taste great, too.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:50 am to Capt ST
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Almaco, wormy trout
Almaco Jacks?
We used to buy a lot of them and fillet them up for the restaurants all the time. Similar to amberjack. Not all of them were bad with worms.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 6:53 am to JasonL79
When I was a student at LSU (early 80's), parents would drop off care packages, that usually consisted of 5 lb bags of redfish filets that they had bought from Schwegmann's ($1 per lb). Over the course of the time I was there, red fish went from the $1 per lb price, to virtually unobtainable at any price thanks to Paul Prudhome.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 7:03 am to pmacneworleans
And while the blackened craze hammered redfish stocks, let's give Paul his due credit for shining the spotlight on South Louisiana cuisine , thrusting that style of food to the forefront of the American palate, where it remains today.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 8:28 am to JasonL79
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When was this?
I guess what is a trash fish and what isn't a trash fish is all relative to the people. When I was a child fishing Lake P I came across a couple of guys who from a distance I could see throwing fish in the ice box. I went in for a closer look and found them throwing out a sparkplug with a treble hook attached to it. They would throw the plug past a school of mullet and real it in fast across the school and foul hook them. I ask if it was crab bait and they told me it was dinner. Later that night my dad taught me a new term for trash fish.
Sure people have been eating redfish down here for hundreds of years in dishes like court bouillon. But what people in LA consider food is a little different then what people in the rest of the country consider food. The blackened method made the fish very popular. Shortly there after restrictions on both commercial and recreational fishing were put in place to allow the species to rebuild. Looks to me liked it worked.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 8:33 am to ddsmit
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Mullet is really good
mmm, Biloxi Bacon.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 8:38 am to Stadium Rat
some of my favorite memories as a kid was watching my cajun grandmother cleaning a goo on the back porch to cook in her red gravy.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 8:59 am to TigerWise
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I guess what is a trash fish and what isn't a trash fish is all relative to the people.
True. People in Florida like mullet where we think of it as trash fish. Same with shark on the east coast.
I still come across some people from Louisiana who think redfish is trash fish. They only keep speckle trout. They say they don't like redfish, drum, or sheephead. Who knows if they are telling the truth. I've even had people tell me they don't fish redfish because they are too easy to catch or they only fish for fish with brains like trout, flounder,etc.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 9:00 am to hawkeye007
Wow, this blew up overnight. R2R, the fish I had in mind as former trash, now fad fish are crawfish (yes, crawfish), redfish, sheepshead (used to be called black drum in restaurants), maybe gar and mullet (popular elsewhere. I know there are others, but I'm not that up to speed on fish, because I don't often eat fish and I'm not a fisherman.
When I was a kid, we'd try anything - eel, Lake Pontchartrain clams (not good, although the native Americans sure ate a lot of them), shark, rays, alligator gar, croaker, pinfish, mullet, bonita, Spanish and king mackerel, you name it.
When I was a kid, we'd try anything - eel, Lake Pontchartrain clams (not good, although the native Americans sure ate a lot of them), shark, rays, alligator gar, croaker, pinfish, mullet, bonita, Spanish and king mackerel, you name it.
This post was edited on 7/9/14 at 9:17 am
Posted on 7/9/14 at 9:06 am to Deactived
I mean that it isn't commonly sold in seafood markets or in non-ethnic restaurants in the south Louisiana (because that's what I'm familiar with but some of those articles were national) .
Posted on 7/9/14 at 9:13 am to Matisyeezy
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I'm a teacher, I make $1500 in like 6 months, brah. I get out too. But I like to try new shite. I would have been excited to try the "trash fish dinner."
I go to different places all the time. My Mariza trip was my first in 6+months and that was my first trip to the new Milkfish.
This entire thread explains my personal valuation of seafood. I don't rate it as high because their is some truth that fish has a limited spectrum of flavor. The most expensive fish has a moderate difference in taste than cheaper fish. I basically never dine at GW Fins or other expensive "seafood" restaurants because of this reason.
That's what makes Peche special, you can eat fresh seafood expertly prepared for a great value. It's consistant and they mix up their menu enough to keep me coming back.
That's all I ask for from a seafood restaurant.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 9:23 am to Stadium Rat
sheepshead
Guy I would go boating with would call them (banned word)-fish.
I like Puppy Drum though.
Guy I would go boating with would call them (banned word)-fish.
I like Puppy Drum though.
Posted on 7/9/14 at 9:30 am to VOR
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Last time I tried it, I was not impressed. Maybe I should try again.
Puppy drum is getting common now a days on local menus.
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