Cheap Fish You Should Always Avoid Buying
Catfish is perpetually popular in the U.S., and as many Midwestern and Southern dishes are centered around this type of fish, it's little wonder that demand is high.
Cod is a popular form of white fish, and as anyone who's ever had a filet of cod as part of a traditional fish and chips will tell you, it's pretty tasty. But all of that demand for cod, and Atlantic cod in particular, has put it in peril.
Rock salmon, also known as spiny dogfish, is a pretty prevalent fish. This mid-sized sea-dweller can be found off coasts across the entire globe, and it is fished in a wide variety of places
The skate is a rather incredible-looking fish. Similar in appearance to stingrays, they're usually harvested for their wing meat. While skate wings can reach high prices in fancy restaurants, they can be pretty cheap and readily available at your local fish market.
Salmon is truly the cool kid of the fish world. We get it. Salmon is delicious, it's good for you, and it's comparatively less pricey than a lot of other fish out there.
Even people who find some types of seafood a little "too fishy" love shrimp. It's arguably one of the most versatile types of seafood out there. It can also be found at virtually any supermarket across the land.
It feels as though tilapia was once a relatively unknown fish, but nowadays, you can find it on menus fairly easily. Sometimes called the "aquatic chicken," the recent boom in tilapia popularity has been associated with the fact that it's relatively easily reared