Baws, Basa > Catfish I hate to admit.

Prove that. The meat is just as clean and is non-toxic

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You should also eat Chinese crawfish because it's cheaper than Louisiana crawfish

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That’s propaganda

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Great counter argument with facts and evidence.

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Two reputable sources that help consumers and businesses make choices about fish consumption are the Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise Program and, in the United States, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch. Even these two groups have different opinions about basa. On its website, oceanwise.ca, the Vancouver Aquarium’s Ocean Wise Program does not recommend consumers buy basa. Aquarium experts say open-cage farming in Southeast Asia is associated with disease outbreaks and infection of wild basa populations. They also note there are also concerns about feed quality, farm operating standards and the biological impact of using wild stock for culturing. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch’s montereybayaquarium.org website says when it comes to which fish and shellfish consumers should buy, the experts rank them in three ways — best choice, good alternative and avoid. With regard to catfish, they say U.S. farmed catfish is a “best choice” because of the sustainable manner in which it is farmed. However, the Seafood Watch folk do rate basa as a “good alternative” with some caveats. They say commercial farming of basa, which they call river catfish, in Southeast Asia has increased rapidly in recent years. They say basa has a strong potential to be a sustainable aquaculture species, but there are conservation concerns with the current practice of open cage aquaculture combined with little or no management of these fish farming operations in Asia.

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I don’t eat it, and I don’t eat at any restaurant along the gulf coast who serves it. There’s no excuse for places to be serving foreign basa when there is plenty of Louisiana/MS/AL catfish available. It’s the same as serving Chinese crawfish to save $.

Would it help if I told you my boy is in Town and Country.

Nothing, but he’s there.

Basa tastes chewier to me, not as tender and soft as catfish. If you clean the grey fatty part off the catfish, it tastes a lot better IMO.