On 2017-03-15 1:19 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> 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.

He get rainbow trout or steelhead a couple times a month. It never
tastes muddy.