weebray
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Something's fishy
About a month ago our local fish market had "cavicucho" for sale. It looked like a nice white meaty fillet so I bought some. Marinated and grilled
it was heavenly. Yesterday they had some more but this time called it "estacuda". It looks like the same fish but my point is it looks like what I
remember totuaba looked like way back when. So many years ago that it was legal - I think. Could it be that someone is harvesting totuaba and
getting creative naming it to skirt the fishing reg's? My Mexican friends have only a vague idea what cavicucho and estacuda are but everyone knows
what totuaba is.
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I see totoaba in the tijuana fish markets frequently, they call it WSB....
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msteve1014
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In our area estacuda is a grouper-like fish. Deeper water, hard bottom. Maybe a baqueta, or similar.
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Pardon my ignorance, what is wsb?
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white sea bass......very close resemblance and taste the same, (to me anyway)
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Why would a Pangaro waist his time harvesting Totoaba filets when he can just cut out the swim blatter and sell it for mucho pesos to the locale
chinese in the San Felipe area. Much more profitable, less work and just as illegal.
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Quote: Originally posted by amigobaja  | | Why would a Pangaro waist his time harvesting Totoaba filets when he can just cut out the swim blatter and sell it for mucho pesos to the locale
chinese in the San Felipe area. Much more profitable, less work and just as illegal. |
As I posted recently:
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/2016/03/28/sea-she...
" The beaches of San Felipe are littered with hundreds of dead totoabas with only their swim bladders removed."
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weebray
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| Quote: Originally posted by amigobaja | | Why would a Pangaro waist his time harvesting Totoaba filets when he can just cut out the swim blatter and sell it for mucho pesos to the locale
chinese in the San Felipe area. Much more profitable, less work and just as illegal. |
Well, one reason could be that if he called his totuaba estacuda or cavicucho he could then sell it legally. I might add that it sells for quite a
bit more than your standard cabrilla or pargo. My question is about the specific fish. Do estacuda and cavicucho really exist or are they just
another name for totuava? Google is no help here.
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This purports to be Cavicucho:
http://bajawild.mx/productos/cavicucho/
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no evidence. deleted original post. seemed funny after that 12 pack now in the harsh light of sobriety, not so funny. sorry.
[Edited on 4-20-2016 by bajaric]
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| Quote: Originally posted by bajaric | Sea Shepard killed the Vaquitas with sonar developed by the Military Industrial complex aka Scripps Oceanography to show their dead deaf porpoise
bodes and get donations.
as far as totuava, still a few around from what I have heard |
Would you be able to provide some evidence to support the allegation of vaquita deaths you mention caused by Sea Shephard?
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Estacudo look a lot like snowy grouper.
They ooze a lot of slime after being caught.
Very good eating.
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Cavicucho looks like ocean whitefish in the link
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Cavicucho does look like Ocean Whitefish.
Ocean Whitefish also known locally as "Conejo". Found over 120' depths most prevalent at 180-200'. Very common throughout the gulf, white flesh, good
eating.
Estacudo found in even deeper seas, more common in the Pacific, larger than whitefish, and better eating than canejo.
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