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From: markr@mipon3.intel.com (Mark Roberts)
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,alt.fishing,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Funny Fish Names
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Date: 2 Aug 89 12:42:57 GMT
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In article <20906@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>What are the aliases being used to sell fish these days?  Fish like hake and
>shad are being sold under other names, like "butterfish".  Could someone
>please post a cross-reference list of these aliases.


On the west  coast they sell white meat fish as "red snapper".  When we pull
it out of the ocean it is called "widow black rock fish" or "sea bass" or 
"more of that g__ d___ junk fish" (depending on who you are, I guess).  It's
very good when deep fried or cooked in foil in an open fire ... but it surely
is not "red snapper" as advertised.

grins and good fishing 
Mark