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Bob Terwilliger
 
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Default Least fishy tasting fish?

Greg wrote:

> Not really. Since non - farmed raised catfish are scavengers they will
> eat *anything* and will thus often taste muddy (same with carp). I grew
> up by the Mississippi River and the fish markets by the river would put
> the cats they caught into big tanks for a few days to "sweeten" them up,
> e.g. they would feed them cornmeal or whatever and also constantly change
> the water in order to help purge them of some of their "impurities"...only
> then would they be offered for sale.
>
> Farm - raised are far cleaner and better tasting, thus their
> popularity...before farm - raised became widely available catfish were
> often looked upon as "trash" fish, and often for good reason.


http://www.bigmfishery.com/ is about four miles from where I live. I've
taken my girlfriend's kid there to catch catfish. My favorite way to
prepare the fish is in a Thai curry. (That's also my favorite way of
preparing tilapia.)

Bob