Two Maryland distributors pushing tasty but invasive blue catfish and snakehead to protect Chesapeake Bay ecosystem
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Capital] By Diana Love - October 3, 2014 -
Most of what's sold at Congressional Seafood in Jessup is exactly what you might see on a typical menu: salmon, tuna, grouper, bass, cod, haddock and the like.
This year, though, Tim Sughrue, vice president of the company, says he expects to sell about a million pounds of blue catfish, a species many Marylanders may have never heard of.
John Rorapaugh, director of sustainable initiatives at seafood supplier ProFish in Washington, D.C., says his company will sell 400,000 pounds of blue catfish this year, in addition to more than 10,000 pounds of snakehead, a fish many local people have heard about but — let's face it — may not have eaten.
The exective chef of upscale restauarant Vidalia said, "Blue cat lend themselves to preparations that are normally for hake or for cod," he said. "It can be freely interchanged. It is a little more toothsome than hake, but is very codlike."
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