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Hake is one of the fish commonly used for a fish and chips supper here in the UK. One hears a lot of emotional, and no doubt true, talk about the overfishing and possible eventual disappearence of cod from the Atlantic but is 'cod' used generically in this context to describe all white fish including hake, haddock and huss (a dogfish - less tasty than the others) or are those other than cod less threatened? The overfishing we hear about is in the North Atlantic waters but there is no ready information here regarding the situation elsewhere. There are cod in the Pacific for instance and if they are plentiful then they could be frozen and flown in to support the traditional British dish. Fresh fish is always best, but probably not much of it is fresh these days anyway. Do we have any commercial fishing experts with some honest answers?
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Dear dxb: I'm positive we have no deepsea fishing on the board. I stopped buying fish and
chips quite a while ago, because something inferior to codfish was being used. The idea
of dogfish, if you mean squalus acanthus, nauseates me. They have a high urea content to
enable kidneys evolved in fresh water to function in salt water. Tastes like urine to me. All of
the commercial fishermen are singing the blues, and I don't think they are sincere. Too many
trawkers cgasing too few fish. Some of the authorities are even concern that recovery may not
be possible. I don't think it is just wild eyed conservationists talking.
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Carpal Tunnel
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hagridden - home/hangout of Rubeus, gamekeeper at Hogwarts
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After taking a look at the guy, no good looking succubus would
would want to tangle with him in bed.
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