On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:38:36 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 13:43:38 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 4:19:48 PM UTC-4, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 03:30:22 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Water quality in the Mekong delta. Pretty polluted.
>>>
>>> Pollution in the Mississippi delta is worse than in the Mekong's and
>>> Ganges (Sunderbans delta). So why pay the premium for muddy-tasting
>>> American catfish when imported basa tastes better for half the price?
>>
>> I don't eat any freshwater fish. They all, always, taste like mud
>> to me.
>
>American catfish is the only fish that tastes muddy to me. Trout and
>steelhead, basa, and tilapia not at all. Can't think of any other
>freshwater fish (or crustacean) I eat, except a goldfish on a dare.
>
>-sw

I grew up in Wisconsin. I've had muddy tasting fresh water fish and
fish that didn't taste muddy. I now live out in the mountain west.
I've had muddy, fishy tasting fish from mountain lakes and some that
didn't taste that way. My go-to safe choices for tasty fish are farm
raised catfish.
Janet US