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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: RonDon]
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02/09/2020 04:26 PM
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Thanks for your responses. I usually order Snapper or Grouper but posted here I'd have to avoid snapper. I'm already allergic to fresh tuna, swordfish any thick skinned fish.
With avoiding lettuce, romaine due to ecoli, red meat for cholesterol, gout. I guess I'll just have to drink booze. Another I heard to avoid is Grouper, but it is my favorite in SXM, and I do eat it without any problems. I stay away from Romaine also..... My worse case of food poisoning was at a friend's restaurant, several years ago, and I don't think my stomach has ever been the same. I will eat mussels in the states, but not up in SXM, where they look sooo good. Just one bad one is all you need. Enough of that---just being able to eat there is a treat!!
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: RonDon]
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02/09/2020 05:11 PM
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Posts: 18,583 St Maarten
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Love snapper and eat it whenever I can.
Elaine ********************************* God Bless the broken road....
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: BillandElaine]
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02/10/2020 07:38 AM
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Love snapper and eat it whenever I can. Me too that's why the concern when I read that post about illness from local fish. To The_Lurker, I haven't had mussels since severe illness aboard a cruise. Many sick but only those who ate mussels and the cruise line tried to convince us it was a virus. Although I've not eaten them on SXM I've heard of no problems because they come from colder waters than SXM. There's a saying: eat mussels only in month that contain the letter R.
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: RonDon]
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02/10/2020 07:52 AM
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There's a saying: eat mussels only in month that contain the letter R. That saying usually pertains to oysters, although other shellfish may be included. I have eaten mussels at Mark's Place many times and never experienced a problem. I did have a nasty tasting one several years ago here at home but no ill effects.
J.D.
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: SXMScubaman]
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02/10/2020 10:50 AM
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"There's a saying: eat mussels only in month that contain the letter R." That is for crab. Never heard that pertaining to any shell fish. READ ABOUT IT
J.D.
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: RonDon]
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02/10/2020 03:17 PM
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The replacement for groper is usually swai.
Elaine ********************************* God Bless the broken road....
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: BillandElaine]
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02/10/2020 04:32 PM
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The replacement for groper is usually swai. Correct. And that is what Lees changed to before Irma. Not sure if they are doing it now.
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: BillandElaine]
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02/10/2020 05:23 PM
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Elaine, would you or anyone else know if the Yacht Club's Grouper Fingers are actually grouper and where it comes from? I love them damn things!
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: RonDon]
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02/10/2020 09:02 PM
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Thanks. Sorry, i should have crafted my question a little better.
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Re: which fish to eat
[Re: RonDon]
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02/11/2020 12:33 AM
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Not all of the fish sold in restaurants on both sides of the island, even what I consider to be the "safe to eat" ones (Mahi, Wahoo, Tuna), are necessarily as local as people think that they are. Yes, the local fishery supplies what they can, but that's not enough. I've talked to a local restaurant owner who gloried in the tuna which he got from a local fisherman, and another who said his tuna was shipped in from Miami, and had been caught off of Panama. Another told me that his Vivaneau (Red Snapper), had been caught between Martinique and Venezuela.
I used to be more of a fish snob than I am today, mostly because of the above - even "safe to eat" local fish sometimes comes from someplace else. What I won't eat though is farm-raised fish and shrimp. There's not a chance that I would ever knowingly eat Swai, Tilapia, most Salmon (including the farm-raised Faroe Island Salmon), and any shrimp other than wild-caught (preferably Gulf of Mexico) shrimp.
At home, I'm not sure that I would eat a Trout which I didn't catch myself. (Side note: - I love the name of Rainbow Trout in French - Truite Arc en Ciel)
But I do love Mahi, Wahoo, and Tuna, even if they're shipped in.
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