Ellick and Pineville restaurants cited for selling faux catfish.

Just about everyone is selling that crap now. As long as they don't say catfish on the menu I guess they can get away with it.
Even the bean counters at Acme convince the owners to switch to the fake catfish a few years back

I mean, crappy to lie...but if it tastes the same I wouldn't really care

Catfish is shitfish, so what they are using instead cannot be any worse.

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This is not a limited problem. Grouper is very often fake as well. The problem is, it's tough to tell where the fraud occurred in the supply chain.

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In New York, students did DNA testing of purchased sushi and retail samples and found that among other things, 78% of red snapper was a far cry from red snapper. In December, non-profit ocean conservation group Oceana had released a report titled “Widespread Seafood Fraud Found in New York City.” Their more extensive study found that 39% of Big Apple restaurants and retail fish sellers committed fraud, as did every single one (100%) of the 16 sushi restaurants tested. Boston and LA fared even worse, with fake fish rates of 48% and 55% respectively.

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"We were not aware that we could not call an Asian catfish 'catfish.' We never meant to be misleading or deceive in anyone in any way," Shona Chesterman said. "This is something that our food distributors sell us, and they sell it all over as catfish. … Why was this never called out for any of the other restaurants that are all doing it in the area?"

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bullshite. How could you be in the food business and not know this is a controversial issue that's been going on for years? I refuse to believe they were that dumb about their industry.

As for the other restaurants, name names. The law should write their asses up too.

That's pretty much everywhere. Unless it specifically states on the menu "Louisiana catfish" then they're using swai. If it just says "fish" on the menu, it's swai. Same premise as serving Chinese crawfish, because they're cheaper. It's a damn shame, but so many naive people out there just assume they're eating Louisiana catfish.

I was in Biloxi this past weekend and was served "grouper." I could tell right off the bat it was swai, but I ate it anyway because I should've known better.

That's so sad in a state like ours.

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You are correct, farm raised catfish has come a long ways. It used to be a fatty mess. It isn’t as good as river catfish but it is a much better product now

The feed must be better. It has always floated, but the nutritional component must have changed