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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.

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Posted by TigerWise

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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.

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