Do you eat catfish?

[I am me, I am free]

Do you know where it comes from?

sorry, asshats at vimeo won't allow a hot link to see this video, so you're going to have to cut and paste - this video shows the source of much of the catfish imported into the states and Europe

vimeo.com/11817894

[Plastic]

Can't see the pic. :(

I like channel cat, but only caught by myself in clean rivers which are a rarity. Farm raised catfish = excrement.

[the riot act]

Do you know where it comes from?



Cats?







j/k

[Awoke]

go to www.vimeo.com/ and paste the number 11817894 at the end of the url.

I never buy fish from a store unless it is locally caught. The fish farms in asia are rife with chemicals and toxins to the point that it could kill you to drink the water.

[k-os]

Yuck. I've never had catfish, and I doubt I will after watching that.

This is one of the reasons I don't like to go to restaurants. At least at the grocery store, I can choose the food by country or origin.

[jaybone]

It is also called "Swai"
usually very cheap, and quite tasty.

The sewage is really not as much a problem with meat quality as you might think,
metals from industrial waste are usually bio-accumulative though; I bet it is full of Cd and Hg.
The packing plant was impressively clean.

[Libertytree]

I grew up catching and eating catfish, some we even "tickled" out of their holes. Skinning and filleting a proper size Catfish is an art, no bones just great meat, the smaller cat's can be cooked bone in but ya have to be diligent about pickin' out the bones and have milk at the ready if you should swallow one, milk helps dissolve bone matter.

If it keeps ya fed there ain't gonna be a label to read.

[Awoke]

Besides, in China, YOU don't eat the Catfish - The CATFISH EATS YOU!


http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/shang_kenneth/catfish1.jpg




(I know it's a hoax, I'm just playing.)

[Korbin Dallas]

Talapia is another one which is farmed and fed the excrement of farmed bass and other fish.

[Ponce]

Well, I don't know about Cat Fish but in Cuba they do eat Cats..........anyone ever eaten a Jew Fish?, I hear that it barely gives you any meat.

[willie pete]

Well, I don't know about Cat Fish but in Cuba they do eat Cats..........anyone ever eaten a Jew Fish?, I hear that it barely gives you any meat.


Actually jewfish (grouper) get up into the hundreds of pounds, I DON'T eat grouper though, it's an EXTREMELY Wormy fish.....don't know about the cubans eating cats Ponce, what do they taste like? :D

[Ponce]

No idea pete because I never had it, I did see the skin of three cats with the head still attached by the curve..........I had dog meat while in Korea that my Yobosan ordered for me and didn't tell me about it till I finished with the meal........it was good.

[madfranks]

I grew up catching and eating catfish, some we even "tickled" out of their holes. Skinning and filleting a proper size Catfish is an art, no bones just great meat, the smaller cat's can be cooked bone in but ya have to be diligent about pickin' out the bones and have milk at the ready if you should swallow one, milk helps dissolve bone matter.

If it keeps ya fed there ain't gonna be a label to read.


A lot of people down in the gulf area (at least where I was at) threw catfish away as junk when they caught them. When I caught them, I'd keep 'em, fillet 'em and cook them in butter and spices. Fresh caught catfish less than 24 hours from the ocean to the plate is delicious.

[willie pete]

No idea pete because I never had it, I did see the skin of three cats with the head still attached by the curve..........I had dog meat while in Korea that my Yobosan ordered for me and didn't tell me about it till I finished with the meal........it was good.



I TASTED dog meat while in the Philippines one time, it's not that bad, although I wouldn't eat it unless I had too or that's all that was, of course I'll bet a lot of you out there in GSUS Land like Liver, I hate it, it has a hell of a stronger taste to it than this dog meat I tried did...(also I'd had several San Miguels, the national beer, so that may have dulled my taste buds... :D)

Regarding catfish, a lot of people do consider it a trash fish, fried up in cornmeal it's very tasty.....most of the catfish I've eaten was farmed from some place in huck-a-buck Mississippi :D, on the farms they feed'em meal to fatten 'em up quick to sell'em faster If you've never cleaned a catfish, you don't scale'em, you skin'em ;D

http://msucares.com/aquaculture/catfish/index.html

[1970 silver art]

I do not eat catfish. The only fish that I like to eat are sardines.

[Ponce]

Hey pete? same here, in the army the only way that I could eat liver was burned to a krisp.......

[illumin19]

I as a rule try to stay away from "bottom-feeders"/scavengers etc. due to what they'll consume.

For the longest time I tried to stick to "kosher" foods. (I'm gonna get flamed now :D)

[the riot act]

I as a rule try to stay away from "bottom-feeders"/scavengers etc. due to what they'll consume.

For the longest time I tried to stick to "kosher" foods. (I'm gonna get flamed now :D)


Where's the popcorn smiley?

[Libertytree]

The only "trash" fish I ever knew about were Carp, only the black folk would keep'em because somehow or another they knew the secret to removing the mud vein, if the vein is punctured it taints the whole fish. At certain fishin' holes I would sell the carps I caught to them for a buck or two or better yet trade them for their Crappie's. I felt like Huckelberry Finn doin' those trades.

[Ponce]

No wonder his eye looks so funny in his avatar.........one of "them"........snake people?

PS: From now on I'll call them by their proper name "Snake People".

[MNeagle]

I as a rule try to stay away from "bottom-feeders"/scavengers etc. due to what they'll consume.

For the longest time I tried to stick to "kosher" foods. (I'm gonna get flamed now :D)


Where's the popcorn smiley?


:dunno looks like we don't have one here.

[k-os]

Here is a pic of the only catfish I will eat, a flathead, they typically eat live fish, not turds, so they are delicious.



That thing is huge! Is it, or is it just that fisherman's camera angle you've got working there?

[Libertytree]

There was a story from a lake where I grew up that an auto accident had left a car at the bottom of the lake with the occupants trapped inside, a diving team was sent down into the lake to try and connect cables to raise the car. The divers went down and were unable to make the connection and refused to go down again because they said there were catfish down there big enough to swallow a man whole.

[Kali]

Catfish are delicious...they eat shit just like we all do...where do you think your turds go when you flush them down the toilet?

Turd Heaven?

They go right back into your belly.

Enjoy.

[gunDriller]

Catfish are delicious...they eat sh*t just like we all do...where do you think your turds go when you flush them down the toilet?

Turd Heaven?

They go right back into your belly.

Enjoy.


the Great Wheel of Birth, Death, and Excrement. :o

20 worms eat food scraps which may be mixed with ... excrement.

30 the worms output food for the plants.

40 the plants grow.

50 we eat the plants, yielding ... food scraps & excrement.

60 goto line 20;

[Liquid]

As funny as this sounds, I have much respect for catfish.

I used to fish for them as a kid, channel cats. They tend to just nibble on the line, slyly and you've got to set the hook. I had one nibbling once, so I set the hook. I felt something on the line, but thought it to be a weed. As I was reeling in...wham! My line starts paying out. I'd reel in, then the sheer weight of the fish would just take the line back out.

This went on for about 30 minutes, until I got the fish closer to the boat. I figured him to be at least 20lbs. When his mouth reached the water line, he belched, and my rod flung back, and he swam away.

Turns out, at the end of my line was a crappie, abut 8 inches. Swallowed the hook. I caught the crappie, and the catfish ate the crappie as I was reeling him in.

The whole battle, that catfish was not hooked at all on my line. He simply didn't want to give up the crappie.

That still amazes me to this day, how much that fish fought for his prize. It was a tug of war, plain and simple.

BTW, the crappie lived, we let him go. :)

[Libertytree]

How many of ya have been gored by a catfish and their side spikes? They have some kind of poison in them and get infected real easy, I got it once real bad as a kid but ya learn to respect gettin' finned after the first time or two. Hell, there's an art to pickin up a catfish as well as skinnin' and filleting it.

Goin' all night catfishin' is a fond memory, a nice fire, cold beers, good friends...just the thought of it puts me in a better mood.

[beefsteak]

LT, as they say, size matters. LOL

http://www.wimp.com/catfishpetted/

beefsteak

[goldleaf]

I remember trucking through Mississippi and seeing these large ponds with rafts flooting in them.
After asking around what they were for, I was told that they put dead animal carcasses on them
and that the maggots from the flies would fall into the water through the mesh bottom of the rafts.
Not much difference I guess, than using worms or grubs for fishing bait.