Fish Fraud @ Mary Mahoney's Biloxi

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I read an article about that a day or so ago and all I could do was shake my head. I don't eat out very often, but things like this are certainly the driver behind why I don't. I have trust issues.... I wonder why?
 
FYI, if you vacation in/near Biloxi......

Biloxi Restaurant and its Co-Owner Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Misbrand Seafood

Word on the street is that this is just the tip of the iceberg and there are many more restaurants involved in the area. FEDs are tight lipped about it because the investigation is ongoing.
I'm not surprised. That has been going on with grouper for a long long time as well. Several years ago the WSJ published an article where they bought grouper all over the US from grocery stores and fish markets. 80% of it wasn't grouper. Most of it was an asian catfish. They concluded that most of the fraud was at the wholesale level. Right up there with local honey.
Best to know your source if you can.
 
I'm not surprised. That has been going on with grouper for a long long time as well. Several years ago the WSJ published an article where they bought grouper all over the US from grocery stores and fish markets. 80% of it wasn't grouper. Most of it was an asian catfish. They concluded that most of the fraud was at the wholesale level. Right up there with local honey.
Best to know your source if you can.
scallops are very often just a cookie cutter of stingray wings.
 
It happens more than we want to know. My wife bought Tuna from a seller at a farmers market. When we rinsed it, the red dye washed off and we had a light pink colored fish, they had died some cheap white fish red..... I tossed it.

- Jason
 
Funny, I just read this. Tuna steak, tuna sandwiches, tuna sashimi—many popular dishes feature this common fish, but there's less real tuna being sold than you might realize. Approximately 59% of all tuna sold in America is mislabeled, meaning there's a good chance that your last sushi dinner may have featured some fishy imposters.
 
Funny, I just read this. Tuna steak, tuna sandwiches, tuna sashimi—many popular dishes feature this common fish, but there's less real tuna being sold than you might realize. Approximately 59% of all tuna sold in America is mislabeled, meaning there's a good chance that your last sushi dinner may have featured some fishy imposters.
One of the main reasons I do not buy sushi....anywhere....ever.
I rather catch it myself, or have fresh caught that day fish given to me....whole...so I KNOW what I am getting.
 
One of the main reasons I do not buy sushi....anywhere....ever.
I rather catch it myself, or have fresh caught that day fish given to me....whole...so I KNOW what I am getting.
I like my sushi well-done.
I ain't eating any animal protein raw.
 
We have an area BBQ joint the menu board says "Brisket" but it's not! It's some stringy beef but it's not Brisket. I don't go there for lunch anymore.
 
So sad to read of greed getting in the way of what was originally established as an excellent and well managed high end restaurant. We were fortunate to dine there back in the early 80's. Still remember the wonderful experience.
 
Lived in Florida most of my life & went to an outdoor on the water seafood restaurant. They had blackened grouper on the menu. I didn’t complain, but I got blackend tilapia. And yes I can tell the difference! I’m sure it goes on all the time, especially with the high seafood prices now.
Al
 
I dont eat a lot of seafood. Part of it is the expense, but part of it is I'm just not a big fish guy in general.

Similarly to my stint reworking restaurant kitchen equipment that ruined me for eating out for years (people have no idea how nasty some kitchens are), I worked a job that took me to sea that kind of ruined me for seafood. It was operating a remote operated unmanned sub. Two things hit me, every ship I was ever on, including Navy ships all dumped their trash in to the ocean just outside of the international water line before coming to port. When I remarked to a navy sailor once about it, he said, "thats nothing, I've seen an aircraft carrier dump a forklift overboard because it wasn't supposed to be in their inventory". So yea, the ocean is the world's dumpster...or septic tank if you will.

We also operated the sub in places like the east coast of Florida. We worked on the challenger salvage for instance. Forget the liquid fuel and solid fuel rockets that fell in to the ocean...we did a photo grid survey of the bottom of the ocean off of Cape Canaveral, etc. mapping the Challenger crew compartment debris field. People have no idea the amount of space junk on the bottom of the ocean as well as just about every other thing you can imagine. Decades of old Redstone rockets and other junk they just left out there. A lot of the work we did was recovering test ordinance, but those were only for lab analysis, not all gets recovered. Usually only stuff of national security sensitivity. The torpedoes we recovered were dripping with benzine and other "stuff".

These are reasons I just shake my head at the proud pictures of people with their huge catch off the coast. Yea, you may have a known species, but what was it swimming around out there and what was what IT was eating, consuming?
 
I dont eat a lot of seafood. Part of it is the expense, but part of it is I'm just not a big fish guy in general.

Similarly to my stint reworking restaurant kitchen equipment that ruined me for eating out for years (people have no idea how nasty some kitchens are), I worked a job that took me to sea that kind of ruined me for seafood. It was operating a remote operated unmanned sub. Two things hit me, every ship I was ever on, including Navy ships all dumped their trash in to the ocean just outside of the international water line before coming to port. When I remarked to a navy sailor once about it, he said, "thats nothing, I've seen an aircraft carrier dump a forklift overboard because it wasn't supposed to be in their inventory". So yea, the ocean is the world's dumpster...or septic tank if you will.

We also operated the sub in places like the east coast of Florida. We worked on the challenger salvage for instance. Forget the liquid fuel and solid fuel rockets that fell in to the ocean...we did a photo grid survey of the bottom of the ocean off of Cape Canaveral, etc. mapping the Challenger crew compartment debris field. People have no idea the amount of space junk on the bottom of the ocean as well as just about every other thing you can imagine. Decades of old Redstone rockets and other junk they just left out there. A lot of the work we did was recovering test ordinance, but those were only for lab analysis, not all gets recovered. Usually only stuff of national security sensitivity. The torpedoes we recovered were dripping with benzine and other "stuff".

These are reasons I just shake my head at the proud pictures of people with their huge catch off the coast. Yea, you may have a known species, but what was it swimming around out there and what was what IT was eating, consuming?
Fish has become a problem in so many ways…. Farmed is just not healthy, wild caught tends to not be very fresh (might be better on a coast, we anre land locked) and like you said, they eat and breath a lot of our waste. Now you just dont even know what it is. Bleh!
 
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