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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: sugartooth on March 05, 2014, 02:15:52 PM

Title: Would you eat this?
Post by: sugartooth on March 05, 2014, 02:15:52 PM
Stopped by superstore to do some shopping. Had a look at
the live rainbow trout they had for sale and saw this.


(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/inacio_bucket/FCE3C66E-2860-4056-9ABE-53A09E366067-57942-0000113186A94EE0_zps5cea7099.jpg)

I certainly wouldn't buy this.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: croy_00 on March 05, 2014, 02:21:37 PM
Stopped by superstore to do some shopping. Had a look at
the live rainbow trout they had for sale and saw this.


(http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa300/inacio_bucket/FCE3C66E-2860-4056-9ABE-53A09E366067-57942-0000113186A94EE0_zps5cea7099.jpg)

I certainly wouldn't buy this.

I'm guessing his expiration sticker was past due :P
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: sbc hris on March 05, 2014, 02:25:14 PM
I've seen people keep way nastier looking Chum. That one is a long ways from being bad! ::)
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: zap brannigan on March 05, 2014, 02:34:27 PM
chromer.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: typhoon on March 05, 2014, 02:43:02 PM
Must have been handled with a glove  :P
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: sandy999 on March 05, 2014, 03:16:00 PM
Must have been handled with a glove  :P


This is just plain ugly!!!! Also very poor management on the stores part. I would bonk the fish and fire the fish Dept. Manager!!!
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Fish or cut bait. on March 05, 2014, 03:20:17 PM
Which store?
Definitely bad quality control and the water isn't being very helpful for the next batch of pellet fed protein guised as fresh fish.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Rieber on March 05, 2014, 03:49:31 PM
It looks like that one got away from the Mill Lake pike. Lucky to be a survivor and living in much cleaner waters. Kind of a nice retirement home.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Fish Assassin on March 05, 2014, 04:04:31 PM
Perfect for the smoker
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Rieber on March 05, 2014, 04:12:57 PM
I wouldn't knowingly eat this poor thing but if it made its way to a restaurant and into a dish, nobody would be the wiser.

The way things are headed, I'll be surprised if we won't be drooling over a fish in that fine condition after we're no longer allowed to retain fish caught on a rod.  :'(
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: BigFisher on March 05, 2014, 04:14:09 PM
That one should be on the discount rack
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: wizard on March 05, 2014, 04:57:12 PM
frig no I wouldn't feed that to my dog. that thing needs to be filleted and put on sale tho, it would sell within hours likely. and the fishes dignity or whats left can be spared any more suffering... 
a pretty good example of poor management right here. imo that fishes condition on display like that is an embarrassment to that superstore and it\s managers.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Capt. jack on March 05, 2014, 05:07:34 PM
Ahh! It's a Fukishima Trout!
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: firstlight on March 05, 2014, 08:53:24 PM
Looks like the nightshift has been practicing there catch and release skills...... :o
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Shawn6o4 on March 05, 2014, 09:00:40 PM
I was just at stupidstore and saw the same thing,  the tilapia looked like a pre teen covered in zits
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: fic on March 05, 2014, 09:03:04 PM
That fish will be on sale as "fresh" filet of rainbow trout tomorrow.  Wonder how many of these types of fish wind up as breaded fish sticks.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Fishin_Squirrel10-4 on March 05, 2014, 10:39:44 PM
Sorry boys, leave this one for the birds and the seals. It's a wild  :(
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Ian Forbes on March 06, 2014, 12:28:11 AM
I wouldn't knowingly eat this poor thing but if it made its way to a restaurant and into a dish, nobody would be the wiser.

The way things are headed, I'll be surprised if we won't be drooling over a fish in that fine condition after we're no longer allowed to retain fish caught on a rod.  :'(

I hate to admit it, but I think you are right, Rieber. Once it is cooked nobody will be the wiser. However, it is bad advertising for the store.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: fic on March 06, 2014, 08:06:35 AM
Sorry boys, leave this one for the birds and the seals. It's a wild  :(

Actually you have no way of telling if that live fish is wild or not by just looking at it as it sits in the tank of Superstore. Lots of farm raised rainbows and even the stocked rainbow trout are not clipped.  Odds are it's farmed salmon if it sits for sale at Superstore.  Odds of you netting a whole fish tank of rainbows and still make it economically viable for sale at 8$ per pound is pretty low.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: sandy999 on March 06, 2014, 08:20:42 AM
Actually, when I was working in a grocery store, the fellows on the nite shift used to line up cans for the lanes and then race the crabs. The funny part is that they were getting paid to watch. Just a great job.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: losos on March 06, 2014, 02:30:49 PM
I'm guessing his expiration sticker was past due :P

You're joking right ?
I've never seen anything with expire date in there for whatever reason.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Rieber on March 06, 2014, 03:03:27 PM
I'm sure when a live fish like this expires, it gets filleted and a packaged at a higher rate due to the value-added premium product. That's only if the pellet fish flesh isn't grey when they open it up. If it's grey they have to dab on the red dead chum smoke colour/flavour enhancer combo mixture and throw it in the microwave to briefly cook it through. Wrap it up and tag it $15/kg.

As it been said by others, the Manager never should have let this fish be seen. It probably should have been filletted and ground. Heck, if you're in the market for that grade of fish, or ground up fish, you're not going to be phased by a scare on the tail section. Once its cooked you'll never taste the deference between a scared pellet fish and an un-scared pellet fish - both are crap.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: buzzbomb on March 16, 2014, 10:03:58 AM
At Butler School they teach that farmed salmon have nibbled tails from the other fish in the tank; wild salmon don't.  I would assume the same would hold true for trout.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: arimaBOATER on March 16, 2014, 12:50:58 PM
Looks like a trout that may have been caught in the 60's film " Planet of the Apes " movie.
( earth after a nuke war as it turns out)

Eat a small live octopus in a S Korean restaurant OR this very trout.
I'd go with the trout.

What's going on with quality control ?
Out the window it seems.
Fish for sale looking like that! Disgusting.
Now if we can only get cooks & hospital staff to wash their hands after going to ...

Edit in: 20 kilograms of mercury dumped daily in Howe Sound area for 5 yrs plus dioxins/ pulp mills plus heavy metals from Britannia Mine, in past history.
Eat crab from that area back then. :( >:(

Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: skaha on March 16, 2014, 08:12:40 PM
--If that's their prime sample.. what's in the packages.
--Don't even want to think what condition the poor chickens and turkeys are raise under... a few pictures on the news lately
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: Ian Forbes on March 16, 2014, 08:52:04 PM
If you ever saw a seiner load of Pink salmon off loaded at a cannery you would never eat canned salmon again.
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: croy_00 on March 17, 2014, 08:21:50 PM
You're joking right ?
I've never seen anything with expire date in there for whatever reason.

Didn't think anyone on here would actually need clarification. Yes......yes I was joking. Yes.....I know the internet is for serious business only...
Title: Re: Would you eat this?
Post by: likely on March 18, 2014, 07:57:30 PM
Nasty.