Not a bashing of comms thread by any means. I guess this goes for scup as well. There is a targeted season for scup and seas bass in the area. My question is what do they do with the fish? I have never seen a sea bass of scup for sale in a grocery store, and only very rarely have i seen a sea bass for sale in a restaurant. I do wonder what the mystery fish in Chinese restaurants is...

I know the place I worked in long island served whole scup and sea bass, they sold amazing!!

Grilled whole scup stuffed with onions and lemon slices and served with a ponzu sauce.

The fish supplier I use at work sells sea bass, not sure where it goes though.

And the Portuguese market sells whole scup, pretty popluar
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Believe it or not I once found scup in a restaraunt in San Antonio back in the late 80s.It was listed on the menu as porgy so I asked the waitress what type of porgy.After speaking with the chef she said it was scup from New England.

IMO

sEA BASS has the highest price per pound than any other in shore commercial fish ////

Best 2 tasting fish out there:drool:

Black sea bass is my favorite, whole and on the grill.

Might have to get RIROCKHOUND to catch me some.
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Whole foods has both I believe.

Best 2 tasting fish out there:drool:

I agree, i wish i caught more of them.

saw them at whole foods a few weeks ago

Clammer is right, sea bass is the highest paying inshore fish. Most of it goes to really high $$$ end restaurants.

50$ a plate or better in NYC ... I hope I get to eat one this year.....:wall:

can u say asian steamed black sea bass:want:

Not related to Sea Bass or Scup but I was at Daves Market in RI about 2 weeks ago and they were selling Striped Bass for 11.99 a lb. I had to stop and stare at that for a little since I didnt think SB was sold in fish markets or local stores for that matter.
I look at my 2 big fillets I got left and see $$$ lol

Daves ,
always carries it / he has customers that shop @ his stores becuse of that .

off topic but did they figure out the bag limits on them yet. too much fun to catch, we were catching them on tinker mackeral while drifting for bass in boston harbor last year.

According to newly release RI regs for recs: BSB season is CLOSED for 2011!

http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bnatres/fishwild/mfsizes.htm#shellfish


Have not seen the MA 2011 updated regs yet.

No word on RI Recreational regs yet. DEM website has it closed for now. I think they're waiting until they can figure out what the new state by state will mean for us.

any word on mass rec limits on black sea bass, i'm going to be so bummed out if I can't bring home a few black bass each trip, best eating fish out the IMHO

MA Rec is

May 22 - Oct 11 12.5 in 20 fish
Nov 1 - Dec 31 12.5 in 20 fish

May 22 - Oct 11 12.5 in 20 fish


That was last year's I went to the web site, it was updated June 18, 2010. I was hoping I was wrong.

I called the state yesterday, They said Sea Bass not set yet "at worst it would be: Fluke was already set.

Sea Bass
May 22 or 24 to Oct 10
14", with 10 fish

Fluke
May 22-Sept 30
17.5 with 5 fish

Just a reminder the ASMFC conference call/meeting is today at 2PM. The agenda is to approve state specific measures for the recreational sector.