Good reason to be careful about buying foreign seafood as explained by Sean Murphy of Beach Bistro

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florisandy

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on Anna Maria Island. Michael in Sarasota has dined there and Zagat has rated it No. 1 in Florida. One of these fine days I'm going to dine there!

I'm very wary of buying Asian or farm-raised seafood anymore. The articles I've read on same are pretty frightening. I bought what looked to be a parasite afflicted piece of farm raised salmon from a local supermarket here in Florida and that was enough for me (I posted here). Articles galore are on the web about foreign seafood sources and some are good, and some are not so good.

http://www.amisun.com/feature.htm

 
Thanks, San. It's getting to be quite scary out there. My friend was diagnosed with mercury

poisoning (her level were too high) which she got from eating too much tuna sushi.

And she lives in a very nice area of northern CA.

 
Yikes! Would be interesting to know if the sushi she ate was ahi/sushi grade or something other.

Surely some restaurants would serve any old tuna in their sushi just to profit.

It's like ordering "Scotch on the rocks" and getting brand X if you don't specify your favorite brand... but that's not as bad as getting inferior tuna sushi loaded with mercury! It's common knowledge that sushi MUST be ahi/sushi grade - oh and what for the price of same!

 
extremely disturbing yet funny

best kind of article and short (for low attention spanners like me).

 
Wow, Sandy -- 60 percent of the 1 percent inspected is rejected. Who would have imagined?

so much for time-saving frozen shrimp, eh?

 
Pat, I used to buy the Asian frozen shrimp up north but am

very fortunate to get wild domestic frozen shrimp at a reasonable price here.

I'll never go back to farmed or Asian seafood again.

 
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