*bicker* wrote:

> A Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:43:37 GMT, "Musashi"
> > escribió:
>
>>>Okay. Great. This is news. What is that difference
>>>(between real red snapper and "fake" red snapper)? How
>>>reliably can a connoisseur distinguish the difference
>>>accurately?
>>>
>>I doubt there are any records.
>>But I have met itamae who can tell a wild caught Ma-dai from
>>a farm raised one by taste. This one was over my head.
>>But from one snapper to another? I suppose it would depend
>>on the connoisseur,don't you think?
>>
>
> Well, true, but the point is that if they truly are
> interchangeable, then that increases the value of the more
> common fish to just about the value of the less common fish,
> and decreases the value of the more common fish a small
> amount to compensate.

Or it decreases the price of the common because they are more
abundant and easier to fish.

--
Dan