Just had a new fish and chip shop open in walking distance ....
It is serving
Rock eel as opposed to the more common
Rock Salmon I was familiar with years ago.
Has anyone asked their local chip shop what particular fish they are serving under the name Rock, or what would you now expect. ?
Anyone found that Rock is a disappointment compared to their memories of its flavour ? so they have abandoned it.
( A google search showed the
following which suggest that Rock Salmon, whilst it used to be predominately spiny dogfish,
that is now fished out, so
But many other shark varieties, including the common and starry smooth-hound, small spotted and black mouth catshark and nursehound — all perfectly harmless and quite beautiful — are not protected by EU fishing regulations and are still being caught — usually by trawling using enormous nets — sold, and eaten, as rock salmon.
This all sounds reminiscent of the horse meat scandals
)