This is fishing in Mexico
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Yes, the fish was also a good catch.
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Yup, we call them Dinner! Good work Vicki!
Kevin, hand line, or rod and reel? We've stopped using our fishing rods. Hand lines work better!
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I think they call it Mahi Mahi in Hawaii, but I live in Mexico
In Florida also but the coloring is different. Maybe Dorado is a different species albeit similar?
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Everything you wanted to know about the difference....
https://americasrestaurant.com/mahi...onal Differences Between Mahi Mahi and Dorado
https://americasrestaurant.com/mahi...onal Differences Between Mahi Mahi and Dorado
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TMI but thanks. I don't believe I read the whole thing. Anyhow, too similar on a plate to be differentiated by my palate.
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Every credible source I have encountered considers Mahi Mahi, Dorado, and Dolphin fish to be different names for the same fish. West coast US usually uses the first 2 names.
The colors vary by fish and usually start off intense green, blue and yellow, then fade quickly once its out of the water. The fish in the OP pic might have been in the fish box and then pulled out for the pic, but usually they are bright right out of the water. The shape of the males and females vary quite a bit btw.
They are fast growing fish, fast and agressive in the water (fun to catch) and great to eat.
The colors vary by fish and usually start off intense green, blue and yellow, then fade quickly once its out of the water. The fish in the OP pic might have been in the fish box and then pulled out for the pic, but usually they are bright right out of the water. The shape of the males and females vary quite a bit btw.
They are fast growing fish, fast and agressive in the water (fun to catch) and great to eat.
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Yup, we call them Dinner! Good work Vicki!
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We don't even have a hand line.
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That photo was maybe 10 minutes out of the water. Just long enough to stop my arms from shaking.
It was a good fight on light tackle.
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More on the differences between 2 fish that often have the same common name and look similar and are marketed as the same....but there are 2 separate species. The one most commonly caught by coastal anglers is often called by many different name all over the world.
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/coryphaena-equiselis/#Common Names
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/discover-fish/species-profiles/coryphaena-equiselis/#Common Names
Fishing = The most exciting thing you can do with your clothes on (IMHO).
Nice fish!!
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If you are a Floridian, and an experienced fisherman, you call both species "dolphin." If you are a tourist reading a menu, you call them "mahi" or maybe "mahi-mahi." It's a marketing thing, restaurants know that people on a Disney cruise will not order tacos that they think are made with Flipper, so they changed the name. It's just another tiny way in which Florida's culture and history has been destroyed to cater to the tourist dollar.
Needless to say, being the grump (and 6th generation Florida fisherman) that I am, I call it a dolphin sandwich no matter what the menu says. If I were in Mexico (or Puerto Rico) I would call it dorado and if I were in Hawaii, mahi-mahi.
Interestingly, the Chilean Sea Bass, was originally called a "slime head" in english, and being an ugly fish, had very little market value until some fish seller decided to change it's name. Fifteen years later the brood stock was almost completely wiped out.
Fresh mullet is pretty darn tasty but people generally don't buy it because they don't like the name. My dad was the president of the Fort Myers Beach Tarpon Hunters Club when I was a kid in the early 70's. His big fund raiser very year, which my brothers and I helped with by cast netting and filleting three or four hundred pounds of mullet, was a fish fry during spring break. We sold beer batter fried mullet to the tourists, but when someone asked we told them it was grouper (black grouper, not gag grouper). Everyone always said it was the best grouper they had ever eaten.
I hope they never change the name of the poor mullet. It is facing enough issues already.
Needless to say, being the grump (and 6th generation Florida fisherman) that I am, I call it a dolphin sandwich no matter what the menu says. If I were in Mexico (or Puerto Rico) I would call it dorado and if I were in Hawaii, mahi-mahi.
Interestingly, the Chilean Sea Bass, was originally called a "slime head" in english, and being an ugly fish, had very little market value until some fish seller decided to change it's name. Fifteen years later the brood stock was almost completely wiped out.
Fresh mullet is pretty darn tasty but people generally don't buy it because they don't like the name. My dad was the president of the Fort Myers Beach Tarpon Hunters Club when I was a kid in the early 70's. His big fund raiser very year, which my brothers and I helped with by cast netting and filleting three or four hundred pounds of mullet, was a fish fry during spring break. We sold beer batter fried mullet to the tourists, but when someone asked we told them it was grouper (black grouper, not gag grouper). Everyone always said it was the best grouper they had ever eaten.
I hope they never change the name of the poor mullet. It is facing enough issues already.
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Been pretty much in lock step with you for the last 60 years or so... but learned a lot of true fish biology along the way with my life and jobs.
After 2 years in Alaska being a salmon fishing nut extraordinaire, I came back and at least once corrected a supermarket for incorrectly labeled salmon fillets. That was back in the time where the news was constantly reporting how fish was one of those "unregulated" marketing foods and legally nothing wrong with calling catfish the "amazing freshwater tuna".
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Been pretty much in lock step with you for the last 60 years or so... but learned a lot of true fish biology along the way with my life and jobs.
After 2 years in Alaska being a salmon fishing nut extraordinaire, I came back and at least once corrected a supermarket for incorrectly labeled salmon fillets. That was back in the time where the news was constantly reporting how fish was one of those "unregulated" marketing foods and legally nothing wrong with calling catfish the "amazing freshwater tuna".
Yep. For much of my life I heard rumors about how most "sea scallops" are really chunks of sting ray wings. So one day when I was a kid, we gigged a big sting ray, skinned it and cut the wings into chunks. My mom cooked them up, they were pretty tasty. At least as good as "sea scallops" which are tasteless blobs that absorb whatever sauce or oil or flavors you cook them in.
A lot of people are easy to fool, I guess.
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Been pretty much in lock step with you for the last 60 years or so... but learned a lot of true fish biology along the way with my life and jobs.
After 2 years in Alaska being a salmon fishing nut extraordinaire, I came back and at least once corrected a supermarket for incorrectly labeled salmon fillets. That was back in the time where the news was constantly reporting how fish was one of those "unregulated" marketing foods and legally nothing wrong with calling catfish the "amazing freshwater tuna".
Having lived in Alaska for over twenty years I had to look up what Keta salmon was when I saw it for sale here on the east coast in the Alaska wild caught fish section. I guess labeling it as dog salmon wasn't good for marketing.
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Mother loved scallops. Each time we passed through Biscayne Bay (Miami) it was my job to capture a bucket full for her. It wouldn't take too long, though I confess that the long seaweed would sometimes snag me. Always an adventure...
I'm not sophisticated enough to discern sting ray from scallops by taste. If we caught a sting ray we used a donut hole cutter to make the rounds. If the "scallops" were uniform in size they were rays. I believe I still have her aluminum cutter in the back of my galley drawer.
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That’s a great memory from a kindred soul. Unfortunately, there are no scallops left in Biscayne Bay. It’s heartbreaking to see how much this state has deteriorated in the last 50 years.
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A lot of water activities have, being a fisherman and an enforcer of fish laws, very disheatening
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I forget, what meal is good with chum salmon.
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Mix with lots of rice and Tiger sauce, Drink 6 beers before eating.
