Best Tasting Fish and overall seafood discussion for refined palates

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  1. Salmon

    32 vote(s)
    24.8%
  2. Tuna

    21 vote(s)
    16.3%
  3. Seabass

    9 vote(s)
    7.0%
  4. Billfish (marlin, swordfish)

    4 vote(s)
    3.1%
  5. Elite whitefish (wahoo, cobia, grouper)

    47 vote(s)
    36.4%
  6. Otro

    16 vote(s)
    12.4%
  1. ramszoolander

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    Oh, I didn't mean in cakes. I just like them whole.
     
  2. ButchCassidy

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    Wish we had access to fresh fish.
    Orange roughy
    Halibut
    Mahi mahi
    Salmon

    all delicious.
    Red snapper was a bit fishy last time I made it. Maybe it wasn’t seasoned right.
     
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  3. Dillingham

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    Farmed fish is such a disaster. taste, environment/ecosystems, etc. Wish we legislated it much more harshly (as all fishing should be)
     
  4. Biship

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    monkfish is the best fish
     
  5. CF3234

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    If it tasted fishy it likely wasn't fresh.
     
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  6. ButchCassidy

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    Oh all the fish I have access to is frozen, from big grocery.

    Not a lot of options in rural Ohio, lol.
     
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  7. CF3234

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    Sure, but I'm just saying that fish only tastes fishy when it is a few days old. It wasn't an issue with how you seasoned it. You could baste a piece of 4 day old mahi in hot sauce and it will still taste fishy.
     
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  8. Fancy

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    1 pound fish >>>
     
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  9. Sean Connery

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    Tilefish is fantastic and may be my #1. After that, it’s hard to beat blackfin tuna and snowy grouper.
     
  10. buckwild

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    Only seen it mentioned once, but despite being one of the ugliest fish you'll ever see....Monkfish is very cheap and delicious. Been making Monkfish tacos for a couple years now.
     
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  11. Lip

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    swedish >>>>

    imo
     
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  12. Rock

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    not that all commercial fishing isn’t great for the environment, but monkfish harvesting is awful. Some places refuse to sell it because of this
     
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  13. Rock

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    I wouldn’t be eating too much tilefish
     
  14. buckwild

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    Yeah, the Operations Director at the seafood market that I go to told me once to basically "Enjoy it while you can" as he expects it to be banned or very strictly controlled sometime in the near future.
     
  15. Hatfield

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    Why's that? I've only had it once this Fall, pretty tasty. We talking like elevated Mercury or some shit?
     
  16. Rock

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    It’s the species with the highest levels recorded lol
     
  17. dblplay1212

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    Y'all got me craving some fried shrimp.
     
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  18. ramszoolander

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    r u pregnant
     
  19. ramszoolander

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    I agree on one hand, but ironically I think the farmed fish that are in pens *in the actual ocean* are the bigger deal here (this may be what you are saying). Aquaculture in landlocked place is (I think) a really good thing and great use of technology.
     
  20. Sean Connery

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    I have it maybe once every 2-3 years. Not exactly the easiest or most convenient species to catch.

    Also, I believe the reports you are referencing related to tilefish from the Gulf of Mexico. I am unsure if subspecies of tilefish matters, too.
     
  21. soulfly

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    Buddy of mine got a trout bone caught in his throat while we were camping. We were both stoned as shit so made it particularly more frightening. Thought I was going to have to try and figure out a way to hike like 2 hours out with him on my back :laugh:
     
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  22. soulfly

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    As a little dungy slut (parents grew up right off the Strait of Juan de Fuca) I think that crown belongs to the king.
     
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  23. Nug

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    Change this to your username. Coward.
     
  24. ramszoolander

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    They are great, but what a pain in the ass to clean. It's like getting stabbed constantly. I don't mind the work, but the pokes aren't appreciated.

    Also, teen birthday tonight: my kid ordered a whole branzino for his meal. RAISING THEM RIGHT
     
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  25. Walter Melon

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    I like fish sticks with choccy milk.
     
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  27. soulfly

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    How the fuck are you cleaning these things? I’m assuming you’re simply dealing with legs; just hold onto a spot and take scissors down the length of it and you’ve got an entire slab of delicious meat.

    Dungeness are way harder to clean.
     
  28. ramszoolander

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    Being from the right coast, we use mallets, so the scissors thing always seems dumb, but point taken.
     
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  29. Nug

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