Various Facts And Uses Of Pollock, Basa And Pangasius

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Pollock

It is mostly considered as whitefish. It’s traditionally known as a popular food item in some countries like Norway. In the United Kingdom, it was being consumed largely as a cheaper substitute of Cod and Haddock in the West Country. In other parts, it’s traditionally used as coley for cats. But, this whitefish has become more popular in the recent years due to the overfishing of Cod and Haddock. Now, you can find this whitefish in most supermarkets as either fresh fillets or different freezer items.

The most common use of this whitefish is in the form of an ingredient in the preparation of imitation crab meat. In Norway, it’s often prepared as fried fish balls due to its gray color, and if it is juvenile sized, it’s breaded with oatmeal and fried as in Shetland. In Orkney, the year-old whitefish is split, salted and dried over a peat hearth, where their texture turns into wooden and phosphorescent. However, in Germany, this whitefish is sold as seelachs or sea salmon. If you talk about Korea, the fish is frozen and melted to hwangtae.

Basa

It is one type of catfish belonging ...
... to family Pangasiidae. These fish are mostly found in Mekong River Delta in Vietnam and Chao Phraya basin Thailand. These are very popular all around the world and popularly known as the food fish in the international market. In North America and Australia, they are labeled as ‘bocourti’. However, in United Kingdom, the species is popular as ‘river cobbler’. The fish of this species have stout and heavy body. Head is rounded and broader than the long and with the stunt snout with a white band on the muzzle. The length of these fish can become up to 120 cm (47 in).

Some people without any fish allergy can also be allergic to this fish both potentially and fatally. So it could be dangerous to eat this fish since it may cause death.

Pangasius

This is a genus of shark catfishes which are native to Asia. Now, it is divided into 4 subgenera such as:

i. Pangasianodon including P. gigas and P. hypophthalmus. These have no mandibular barbells, i.e. teeth are absent in adults a single-lobed swimbladder is present.

ii. Pteropangasius includes P. micronema and P. pleurotaenia. They have four lobes in the swimbladder and with many segments in the last lobe.

iii. Neopangasius includes P. nieuwenhuuisii, P. humeralis, P. lithostoma, P. kinabatanganensis which are diagnosed by palatal teeth present as a single large patch and high vertebral counts.

iv. The last subgenus bears the same name and has no diagnostic feature. The remaining species belong to the last subgenus.

In 2000, the entire subgeneric classification was confirmed except the third subgenus becoming polyphyletic so there were three subgenera. As per records, it acquired the sixth position in the National Fisheries Institute.

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Christopher Luis is a freelance copywriter and he enjoys writing on wide range of topics such as white shrimp,seafood mix,cooking food fish basa and frozen shrimp.In this article he provides about How Vietnamese Chao tom is prepared.