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Train them like dolphins and put hoop's in front of the tin for them to jump through, easy.
I was asking as you seem to know a fair bit about tinned sea food. I was hoping you wasn't trying to take my thunder away with me being OcUks resident fish monger..
No mate - you're very welcome to that title. Besides, it surprises me just how polarising people are about eating fish.
There are those that only eat Tuna, those that only eat cod/fish fingers and then there are those that try a bit of everything!
I'd like to see more people trying a bit more of everything, because it's a great food source, but widely not-understood or worse still miss-understood as to what the animal is, where it comes from and what goes into it. I'd never have bought tinned fish till I joined Heinz (former owners of John West Foods Ltd) in 1998, but since we were exposed to it, I started buying tinned, and fresh fish - there's rarely a day passes that I don't eat fish in some shape or form now.
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Have to say I find Salmon fresh or otherwise very expensive for what you get nowadays. I've started looking at alternatives.
I'm also supporting Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's fish fight
I'm also supporting Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's fish fight
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Pink vs. Red
Normally have red but a few times tried the pink when red wasn't available and it seems quite different, tastes unpleasantly fishy, to me anyway.
Normally have red but a few times tried the pink when red wasn't available and it seems quite different, tastes unpleasantly fishy, to me anyway.
yeah, it's a richer flavour. There's a common misconception that Pink Salmon is just a lower grade fish that Red, but that's not true.
I too prefer Pink in most circumstances, for the same reason as you, but mashed up and mixed with a bit of vinegar and pepper. Great on buttys
How's Tinned Red/Pink Salmon Salmon related to Hugh's big fish fight? I must have missed that one, unless you're referring to farmed Salmon or something...?
mebbe
OK, rumbled. 14 years man and boy working for the UK's largest tinned seafood brand. I now work in IT looking after the ERP's of the subsiduaries of Thai Union Foods. Why do you ask?
child labour on the line?
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Salmon netting used to be common here in northern ireland in river estuarys. It has almost vanished now as a commercial practice. The river that runs through my village is a very good salmon river, but it costs a small fortune for a day ticket on the stretches near the estuary. A salmon caught on line generates more money for the local economy via angling tourism than one netted at sea.
Surely those aren't tinned, but sold as fresh/frozen?
Tinned Fish is MOSTLY caught in rivers in Alaska/Canada
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Yes, theyre sold locally, atlantic salmon seems to command quite a price premium compared to the tinned pacific fish.
I guess that the economy of scales comes into play in the example of Atlantic Salmon.
I'm not familiar with the fishing processes of Ireland - but I'd guess there's quite high labour costs when pro-rata'd to a per fish basis. Either that or there's some sort of taxation...?
I do know that the fish that we source from Ireland (I think is our tinned Kippers and peppered Mackerel still come from there) are of a fabulous quality.