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Originally Posted by Slick Moedee
Albacore = Albacore
White Tuna (Sushi Menu) = Escolar (don't eat too much...)
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Albacore and Escolar are both called "white tuna" but they are radically different fish.
Sushi white tuna (shiro=white and maguro=tuna) is albacore, the same fish that goes into canned tuna. They are long-finned tuna that I am catching out here on the west coast - out of California, Oregon and Washington.
Escolar are also nicknamed white tuna, but are not the same thing. Escolar are tropical or temperate water fish and are really oily and cause problems. I have only heard of them being caught in South and Central America. they look different and are crazy oily/waxy. and if you eat a lot you get a form of diarrhea with oily discharge - just like olestra (remember those commericals).
look up escolar - makes you not want to eat it. I have tried it smoked.....its good...and fishy. I like it, but after reading up, not going to buy it again
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