Chilean Sea Bass

araby · Post by **araby** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:47 pm

have you had it? Is it really that good?

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:11 pm

yeah. It tastes like chicken. :wink:

Menlaan · Post by **Menlaan** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:37 pm

It's great. It's a very sweet fish. I highly recommend it. Why do you ask?

Post by **Arlos** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:50 pm

It's also getting highly endangered and is extremely overfished. BTW, Chilean Sea Bass is a marketing name for the fish, the real name of it is Patagonian Toothfish.

In any case, I would advise against buying or eating any of it, as the species is quite in danger of being pushed to the brink of extinction by overfishing.

-Arlos

Menlaan · Post by **Menlaan** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:15 pm

It's pretty hard to find in restaurants. I recently went to a very very nice wedding that had Chilean Sea Bass as one of the options. I got it and it was great. I hadn't had it in years.

araby · Post by **araby** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:18 pm

Menlaan wrote:It's pretty hard to find in restaurants. I recently went to a very very nice wedding that had Chilean Sea Bass as one of the options. I got it and it was great. I hadn't had it in years.

the reason you had it at a wedding is because that's how it's mostly sold-in large quantities, most restaurants will not serve it because of the way that it's caught.

araby · Post by **araby** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:20 pm

Menlaan wrote:It's great. It's a very sweet fish. I highly recommend it. Why do you ask?

It lives about a mile below sea level, it's white fish, you can't overcook it, it almost has no flavor so it takes on any added flavor/spice, and it doesn't taste like fish. apparently it's the perfect fish. I wanted to know if it's really that good.

Phlegm · Post by **Phlegm** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:23 pm

It's very expensive if you can find it.

Menlaan · Post by **Menlaan** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:30 pm

It's good. For quite some time, I've ordered it every time I've seen it. I didn't know how they were caught or that they were close to being extinct.

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 7:59 pm

never had it but I would like to, ive looked for it a couple times. Cant wait til I find it somewhere =/

Post by **Arlos** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 8:16 pm

http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/w ... aspx?gid=6

From the Monterey Bay Aquarium and oceanic research center. One of the most prestigious and well-known oceanographic research entities in the country. (and an amazing Aquarium too, if you ever have the chance, GO.)

-Arlos

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:19 pm

it cant be any better than catfish~

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:30 pm

Gaazy wrote:it cant be any better than catfish~

Are you kidding me? Catfish eat duck-shit and fish-shit for a living.

Juls · Post by **Juls** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:43 pm

Gaazy · Post by **Gaazy** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:56 pm

then I guess I love shit. I love catfish nuggets to death. I was fishin earlie rhopin to bring one home to cook up, but didnt get anything but a few small bass.

Next weekend is trout time.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 11:12 pm

Narrock wrote:
Gaazy wrote:it cant be any better than catfish~

Are you kidding me? Catfish eat duck-shit and fish-shit for a living.

Lobster eat worse...

araby · Post by **araby** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:10 am

well if the chilean sea bass lives at a depth of one mile below the ocean's surface what do you think THEY eat

Post by **Martrae** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:05 am

Harrison wrote:
Narrock wrote:
Gaazy wrote:it cant be any better than catfish~

Are you kidding me? Catfish eat duck-shit and fish-shit for a living.

Lobster eat worse...

Lobster....the cockroach of the ocean.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:00 am

araby wrote:well if the chilean sea bass lives at a depth of one mile below the ocean's surface what do you think THEY eat

They eat other smaller fish. They are not bottom-feeders like catfish are.

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:01 am

Martrae wrote:
Harrison wrote:
Narrock wrote:
Gaazy wrote:it cant be any better than catfish~

Are you kidding me? Catfish eat duck-shit and fish-shit for a living.

Lobster eat worse...

Lobster....the cockroach of the ocean.

Actually, a lobster will also hunt fish down. Crabs are bottom-feeders only. So, at least a lobster has some fresh food in their diet.

dammuzis · Post by **dammuzis** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:13 pm

this weekend i was on the oregon coast in gold beach... i watched my friend reel in a 36lb salmon

Narrock · Post by **Narrock** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:30 pm

Must've been a hell of a fight. Salmon are strong. I caught a couple on a party boat out of the Berkeley marina.

araby · Post by **araby** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:23 pm

Narrock wrote:
araby wrote:well if the chilean sea bass lives at a depth of one mile below the ocean's surface what do you think THEY eat

They eat other smaller fish. They are not bottom-feeders like catfish are.

hmm, you're right-you know they only knew of the fish since 1977 anyway...it's likely it eats other fish we don't know about that are also a mile down.