i worked at an aquarium this summer and started learning the Latin names of fish and coral and stuff and it really does make things easier
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I hate "sea bass"
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i worked at an aquarium this summer and started learning the Latin names of fish and coral and stuff and it really does make things easier
Maybe this is something that is particular to the US - back home in the fish shop you can buy sea scallops (which are big and meaty) or bay scallops (tiny little rubbery things not worth eating). I suspect they both come from the same body of water though
Sea scallops actually do come from deep water and are dredged. Their cousins the "bay scallop" come from a variety of environs but shallower water and they don't grow big. Often they're dredged too and it really reeks havok with the seagrass and bottom. Used to love scooping them up while snorkeling in Florida. If they are rubbery you're overcooking them!
A few weeks ago Harrods in London had whole dovers for sale at £39 a kilo. By that reckoning it makes my 3lb 10oz FOM entry worth £64 - for one fish
Dave.
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Well somebody had to pay for Dodi's luxury yacht and for wining, dining & decorating princesses. Chariots of Fire only goes so far [he was a backer for the film]. Al Fayed sold Harrods last week for £1.5billion (about $2.2billion at current exchange rates) - I guess word got out that you could charge £39 per kilo for whole dover sole there and people will buy it!A few weeks ago Harrods in London had whole dovers for sale at £39 a kilo. By that reckoning it makes my 3lb 10oz FOM entry worth £64 - for one fish
Sure that wasn't Black Soul?
(As opposed to Northern Soul, of course). I'm a soul man... And [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_cod"]Potato Bass[/ame]*? Oh no, they come from Mozambique (don't spear potato bass, they're docile).
*potato bass a.k.a. potato cod/potato grouper.
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I think it was a potato cod we were warned about when we dived the Yongala in Oz. Apparently it had put a scubies head in its mouth cos it was used to being fed by them (and spat him out unharmed, awww cute 
), we weren't allowed to feed them.
I took my reg out and puckered my lips up to every single one, but they didn't play,
that'd be a coooooool pic hahahaha
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), we weren't allowed to feed them. I took my reg out and puckered my lips up to every single one, but they didn't play,
that'd be a coooooool pic hahahahaPosted via Mobile Device
Mr X, I have pointed out at some point before that this fish is a south african dagga salmon or kob (similar to aussie mulloway)......that pic is taken above a very familiar backdrop in Durban to me and if it was a Potato bass...well..he'd possibly be in a spot of legal bother for it now. I am not sure I ould like my face put up on the net for shooting a potato bass (even though it's not if you see my point).
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Apologies SurfNSpear, I guess Google keeps popping that one up when I google potato bass - its a great pic, unfortunately not a potato bass it seems though.
- that would be a more upmarket and pricey grey mullet I suppose. My son stopped me buying some rather nice looking gilthead bream (I think) from a fishmonger's stall in Totnes recently - "you have to catch your own" he said! I regret not getting them, as I've never seen any while diving.
Silver mullet
- that would be a more upmarket and pricey grey mullet I suppose. My son stopped me buying some rather nice looking gilthead bream (I think) from a fishmonger's stall in Totnes recently - "you have to catch your own" he said! I regret not getting them, as I've never seen any while diving.
Any chance you can edit your post then? Both above and in http://forums.deeperblue.com/spearo-board/74369-mullet-bass.html Post 5....Thats one source for google to keep throwing it up....Remove the pic and replace with another of the correct species?
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