re: Restaurants that serve Swai instead of Catfish

I'd rather have wild caught local catfish to the pond-raised stuff any day.

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Isn't Basa becoming a popular replacement too?

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i was told that basa was basically catfish raised in some sort of pond with a net at the bottom to keep the fish from eating the shite that fell to the bottom.

but that could be total BS.


ETA: the United States Congress passed a law in 2003 preventing the imported fish from being labelled as catfish, as well as imposing additional tariffs on the imported fish.[11] Under the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ruling, only species from the family Ictaluridae can be sold as true catfish.[3] As a result, the Vietnamese exporters of this fish now label their products sold in the U.S. as basa fish or bocourti.[12][13]