I was told a longtime ago that if you order fish it was carp. Now there is nothing wrong with carp in Japan it is highly desired, but in the US it is a trash fish. Don;t know the difference if there is one......jk

The same fish can have several common names. So there’s very little regulation regarding what a restaurant calls a particular type of fish. Honestly, the odds you were eating true walleye 10 years ago is fairly unlikely. There has been very little commercial fishing for walleye for quite some time. I think the vast majority would have been out of Canada on Erie, but most of Erie commercial fishing was and still is yellow perch.

This is off topic but there are a few places in Japan that serve raw chicken, sashimi style. As long as it is fresh it is perfectly safe. They have a different “standard” than westerners do and it doesn’t mean it is wrong.
One day I would love to visit Tokyo, Ogawa, and the like. Extreme culture shock

LOL that brings back an unpleasant memory. One day when I was a kid the local grocery store seafood counter was selling ocean perch. We usually bought haddock from the grocery store, but when I saw perch I suggested to my mom that we try that as we loved yellow perch. I figured it would taste similar. My gosh was that stuff awful! Totally agree on the nastiest tasting fish I've ever had!

I’m glad I’m only 60 miles from the beach, I won’t even eat farm raised fish. Salmon , catfish, tilapia, non of them and the shrimp I buy is pink shelled wild shrimp. Our ocean perch are Red fin or pink fin perch they make great tacos, great day to catch and cook right on the beach. We have a couple fish markets and they have restaurants attached that have great fish and chips.

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They are not as terrorist as they started.
I do like that they patrol for commercial fishing vessels (mostly out of china) illegally raping "our oceans".

I’m fairly certain the salmonella risk with chicken is due to how its butchered and packaged commercially in huge numbers. Thats why duck can be eaten rare, its done on a much smaller scale.

Cod, haddock, pollack and also easy to find blue gill and walleye and perch but not everywhere.

Good wild fish are easy to find here and in especially in Spain. Almost all the salmon is farmed in Scotland and Norway, but wild Atlantic salmon goes for about $65 a pound and you almost never see it for sale.

I remember the golden days in northern CA when wil chinook and Coho were cheap and Dungeness crab were everywhere during the 4 month season. Not any more.

Pete

You will only find Crappie/catfish/spoonbill in my freezer. We do gig sucker and red horse during the fall/winter, but only eat them fresh. Do occasionally eat a smallmouth/largemouth if it was hooked too deep and I felt it wasn’t going to make it.

Perch/goggle eye get ate fresh.

I like salmon and had some pretty decent salmon at Red Lobster.