Pie, fire & fish

[fbhjr]

The coming Game Night is going to have a pie theme. So, tonight my wife and I needed to start making pies for it. (I’m doing a beef pie, she’s doing apple.)

As we’d be pie making tonight, we decided not too cook.

So, we went to our favorite sushi place down the road from where we live.
Sadly, all the regular tables were full, but they had room at a cooking table. So, we took it.

The cook did his fire thing on the table and seemed sad he didn’t get much of a reaction.


But, let’s face, my wife sets herself on fire for audiences. That little flame wasn’t going to do it.
So, the chef upped the ante.

That at least got a nod of approval for us, so he proceeded with dinner.
(He should have stuck to fire. There are better chefs there.)

When shopping for pie ingredients, we ended up for some reason in the canned fish aisle.
I was very surprised to see some of the canned fish promoting that it was wild fish.

I know they farm raise catfish. But, catfish usually just sit there.
Some of these were ocean fish.


Are there deep sea fish ranches where fishboys ride sea horses around herds of tuna?
If so, how did I miss that?
If not, what is the point of saying it’s wild?
OK, line caught makes a difference as some netting practices aren’t very good.
But, isn’t it all wild?
What am I missing?

Comments

[ravena-kade.livejournal.com]

Maybe I need to find myself a fishboy

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Yeeha?

[jenny_evergreen]

There are tuna farms, though they are not as easy as catfish. Salmon is also farmed fairly extensively. I don't know about sardines, though.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten about salmon. I can see fresh water fish as they could use a closed lake or similar to contain them.

How do they farm tuna that like to swim in big ranges?

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

Having now read about tuna farms, that's way cool.
Hopefully that can help slow the overfishing problems.

[jenny_evergreen]

The problem is avoiding all the new problems that crop up in farming, thus why wild caught is generally still considered better.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

There were plenty of problems when we moved from wild to farm land animals 10,000 years ago. I'm sure there will be a learning curve here as well.

But, I'm happy for any move away from the "catch all you can, there will always be more" mind set.

[morgan-lafaye.livejournal.com]

Sardines,herring,lobster,- hatcheries
Mussels and some other mollusks-farm raised
Salmon,trout,catfish,tuna,tilapia,Swai,bay Scallops, shrimp, can all be farm raised.
In the case of Salmon and trout, farm raised,has a higher sat. fat content.
As for scallops, its very important to know where,what type as some cheat'n buggers will try to pass off skate that has been "cookie cut" as scallops. The best way to check that is to see if some of the scallops still have their hinge attached. O' while we're talking scallops, the red/pink ones aren't bad, it just meant they were fertile at time of harvesting, said to be all that much sweeter.

What's sad is the fish that they have tried to farm raise but have had little success, The cod family. Cod,Haddock etc. They are at critical low levels in the ocean. Sorry I just took over your post. My bad.

[fbhjr.livejournal.com]

No worries, I wanted to know.
Too bad about cod, they need help.