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Thomas Sowell, PhD
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1) Feel like an idiot - At Kemah and asked the clerk if this was fresh caught or farm raised. He said fresh caught. My understanding is you can't sell fresh caught Red Fish from Texas waters. Bought 2 fish.

2) Does Red Snapper taste better?
ttha_aggie_09
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It's from Louisiana
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Ragoo
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At a restaurant in china they had a selection aquarium with redfish. It was neat to see.
BullSprig07
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I love redfish but not comparable to fresh gulf red snapper IMO. Not a better eating fish out there to me.

Now whether I want to support commercial fisherman in the gulf is a whole other can of worms though.
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DrHeadShrink said:

1) Feel like an idiot - At Kemah and asked the clerk if this was fresh caught or farm raised. He said fresh caught. My understanding is you can't sell fresh caught Red Fish from Texas waters. Bought 2 fish.

2) Does Red Snapper taste better?
Two states currently allow wild fishery harvest of wild red drum - MS and NC with NC accounting for the majority of wild harvested fish. There is currently some farm based production in TX as well as China and SE Asia.

Taste? IMO both red drum and red snapper are great on the table.
Salt of the water
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From TPWDs commercial fishing regs:

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*NOTICE: To be lawfully imported, sold or
purchased in Texas, bass of the genus
Micropterus, crappie, flathead catfish, red
drum, striped bass, white bass or a hybrid
of any of these fish must be farm raised
and fed a prepared feed containing 20% or
more of plant protein or grain by-products
as a primary food source.


Either the guy was lying to you about them being wild caught, or breaking the law... Either way, it seems shady.

Was it a fillet, half shell, or whole fish? They may also be trying to pass something else off as redfish (black drum most likely). It's pretty common for other snappers to be sold as red snapper.
Thomas Sowell, PhD
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Whole fish

It tasted great - did blackened
cheezag03
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A place in Seabrook had speckled trout once. Is somebody farm raising those?
Finn Maccumhail
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I could be mistaken but it thought NC just made redfish a gamefish and don't allow commercial harvest. Or maybe there are folks trying to get it changed right now.
Finn Maccumhail
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This seems appropriate to put here: https://fishgame.com/2018/04/texas-game-wardens-bust-markets-restaurants-with-game-fish/
maverick12
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This seems appropriate to put here: [url=https://fishgame.com/2018/04/texas-game-wardens-bust-markets-restaurants-with-game-fish/][/url]https://fishgame.com/2018/04/texas-game-wardens-bust-markets-restaurants-with-game-fish/

This is what I was going to post...it could have been either. Wish they would name the markets and restaurants they busted.

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