For those of you who get your salmon down the distribution line, you would not believe how much better salmon is when it is super fresh. Kind of like apples, fresh off the tree is better than 2 hours old, and same day is better than the next day, and fresh crop is better than the nitrogen warehoused apples. Most salmon that is sold has been around a while.
“Most salmon that is sold has been around for a while.”
I had some really tough salmon last week. “Around the block a few times” is more like it. In fact I heard she had even been shacked up with Charlie the Tuna for a while in her younger days.
Since I am not a fisherman I never knew how much of a difference truly fresh makes until I had breakfast sushi in Tokyo. The sushi was at restaurants right by the world-renowned Tsukiji fish market. It took about 3 hours from when the fish is auctioned off until it appears on your plate. No other sushi I had remotely compares.
Sadly, I heard the fish market closed earlier this year.
Hope your sushi fish was flash frozen to kill off at least some parasites.
Mr. B had never tasted really fresh salmon until he went fishing with my dad. He was amazed how different that just-off-the boat pan-fried fish tasted.
Never saw it during the really early hours when the auction takes place. Best I could do was breakfast. Thanks for letting me know it hasn’t closed yet. I might have a trip to Tokyo later this year as well, so I will see the auction if I can.
Wonder if any of that escaped Atlantic salmon end up edging out the other fishes at the Tsukiji fish market…and drive down the price of salmon so much I can pick up a kilo of them for 20 Sen(0.2 Yen).
Interesting details from an NPR report. At least one researcher from the renown U of Washington Fisheries department says the escape is a concern, but no catastrophe. He opines also that it’s unlikely that many of the fugitive salmon will survive or spawn. Apparently projects to get Atlantic Salmon to grow wild in the Pacific Northwest, or breed with Pacific Salmon, have never been successful.
Maybe the fugitive salmon are sterile!?!!? They may still eat the food that the pacific salmon need to survive, which will still be bad for the native salmon.
My dad’s freezer in Alaska, when he lived there, was always full of fresh salmon and halibut. It’s very difficult for me to eat either one from a store.
I don’t see why it mattered. Is it a matter of public health or some other dangerous thing that can affect the public? Attack of the killer Atlantic salmon?
Maybe they’re too hyped up from living on the east coast/Atlantic(especially those from the NYC area) and are giving out major negative vibes to the native PNW salmon who are content to chill out with some craft brews, fancy branded coffee drinks, and a ton of weed/psychedelics.
People could have started fishing them sooner before they spread out. It may have helped to contain them. Does it have to be life and death matter to make it public?
