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[WESTPORTMAFIA]

Just hope that if you buy and eat bass from the fish market or store that it's from a guy who sold it and kept it well iced for a day or 2 and not from the guy who had it lying on the deck of his boat for 12 hrs in the sun. This is old news and an old game. At the end of the day you are better off eating the iced fish. This has been happening forever and won't stop as long as there is a commercial season. As far as red fish? Put a 20 pound plus bass on the deck or any flat surface without bleeding it for a half hour after it suffocates and it will turn red (doesn't mean it's not fresh)
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[Mike P]

Originally Posted by NEWPORTMAFIA

Just hope that if you buy and eat bass from the fish market or store that it's from a guy who sold it and kept it well iced for a day or 2 and not from the guy who had it lying on the deck of his boat for 12 hrs in the sun. This is old news and an old game. At the end of the day you are better off eating the iced fish. This has been happening forever and won't stop as long as there is a commercial season. As far as red fish? Put a 20 pound plus bass on the deck or any flat surface without bleeding it for a half hour after it suffocates and it will turn red (doesn't mean it's not fresh)
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Good point. Since bass have be sold in the round, they're not bled. Post-mortem lividity sets in very quickly if a bass isn't bled. Red doesn't necessarily mean old. It means dead and not bled.
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[WESTPORTMAFIA]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Good point. Since bass have be sold in the round, they're not bled. Post-mortem lividity sets in very quickly if a bass isn't bled. Red doesn't necessarily mean old. It means dead and not bled.
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Yeah the fish houses look for cloudy eye balls to gauge the fish for the most part.
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[beamie]

Just because bass are sold in the round doesn't mean they are not bled. I always cut the gills and bleed whether eating or selling much better for the end user. Many comm guys don't do this but it is the right thing to do.

[Clammer]

MP

yep years ago that,s the way it went with blues & even more so Cod & Squetague

Now its don,t cut /gut any .all three are sold in the [WHOLE}