Re: Orange roughy

Sky wrote:

Blinky the Shark wrote:

Miche wrote:

In article <pan.2008.02.29.03.23.10.661609@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Terwilliger wrote:

Lou wrote:

I've got orange roughy thawing for dinner and I think I'd like
to deep fry them and make hush puppies.

I'm not generally a tree-hugger and I rarely get preachy, but were you
aware
that orange roughy is endangered?

Is there a "best source" you can provide for a list of endengered species?
What organization is actually the final authority on these? Or can
anybody that loves chihuahuas put up a website about their "endangered"
status and if enough people believe...really believe...they (the
chihuahuas!) will become so?

Here's the New Zealand list:

http://www.forestandbird.org.nz/bestfishguide/species/index.asp

Thanks, Miche.

It's interesting that while they rank it as one of the worst fish to use,
their warnings don't contain the word "endangered". This looks like more
of the grey area I found online before I asked for an actual authority on
endangered species -- like many of the casual warnings I found online.
Which is what prompted me to ask about an authority on "endangered
species".

Wertz provided a link to a US governmental site that contains almost 600
endangered species around the world.

--
Blinky


And to confuse the issue even further, perhaps some fish get
mislabeled. For example, a lot of 'red snapper' listed in sushi
restaurants' menus tend to actually be 'talapia' and not even true red
snapper. Whether or not it's the restaurant scamming their patrons or

I did not know that. But I just posted a reply to an article from
Kathleen that mentioned basa -- which apparently used to be marketed here
in the US as a kind of catfish, until the US catfish farmers got some kind
of protection for the name. Or maybe that was settled without the suit
going through. Or whatever.

Sky, who's landlocked too far from any ocean

Blinky the Shark, who lives here:
http://blinkynet.net/sharks/blinkysat.html
The flat grey area on the coast is Los Angeles.



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