![]() The MCS suspects that all the downsides of fish farming such as disease, escapes of farmed fish into the wild and pollution of the sea bed are present in these farms. These fish farms grew at a furious rate over the last 20 years with little regulation. Nor is the Marine Conservation Society too happy with Greek and Turkish sea bass. The Marine Conservation Society rates wild sea bass as a fish to avoid. In 2018, the catch limit for a fishing boat using hooks and lines was halved to five tonnes annually. Targeted fishing for sea bass using nets is now effectively banned. Measures to restrict fishing were introduced about five years ago and have been made more severe every year. The stock of wild sea bass in European waters has fallen significantly over the last 10 years. The standard supermarket size for a sea bass fillet is 90g. They are generally harvested at 400-800g. All fish become less efficient at converting food to muscle as they mature. Farmed fish however are not grown to this size. ![]() In the trade, a fish of six kilos would be regarded as XXL. The largest sea bass on sporting records measured one metre and weighed 10 kgs. You wouldn’t notice at first glance, but sea bass is quite fatty compared with other white fish, sitting halfway between cod (essentially zero fat) and salmon. The flesh is a dull white, which cooks to brilliant white like cod. It also has some meaningful spines and razor sharp gill covers which can give you a bit of sting. Sea bass has an attractive silvery skin with seriously hard scales which need to be removed before cooking. It has a wide diet including smaller fish of its own species. This is a coastal fish, often found in estuaries. It’s caught off all coasts from Norway and the Baltic round to the Black Sea and also off the west coast of Africa, but nowhere else in the world, although the American striped bass is a close cousin. ![]() There are many fish around the world with bass in the name, but the fish we’re looking at here is the European sea bass or Dicentratus labrax. (The same farms account for the equally rapid ascent of the gilt head bream.) 85% of this production comes from Greece and Turkey. Farmed production rose from zero in the late 1980s to about 180,000 tonnes in 2018. Fishermen catch about 10,000 tonnes of wild sea bass annually. This led to a dramatic escalation in supply. However, in the 1980s commercial hatching of sea bass was mastered, which meant this fish could be farmed on a large scale. They’re highly prized by anglers and considered delectable as table fare.Thirty years ago sea bass was a pretty rare fish hardly known outside a few expensive restaurants where it had a high reputation as a gourmet item. White seabass, members of the croaker family, are found from Magdalena Bay in Baja California Sur to Juneau, Alaska. The IGFA, which requires a certified weight, line sample, a photo and witness statement, typically takes weeks or months before making a record determination. I did not even plan to send the information, but when I saw the fish was a good size, I decided to send in the official documentation.” Gary Graham, author of the Baja Bytes column, quoted Reyes as saying, “I did not expect to win a world record. Reyes, 36, was surf casting for snapper on the Pacific side of the Baja California peninsula, southwest of La Paz, when the seabass struck. RELATED: Angler’s giant flathead catfish could shatter record Baumgardner also set the record for 30-pound-test line. That fish was caught by Lyal Baumgardner off San Felipe, Mexico, in 1953. The current all-tackle world record stands at 83 pounds, 12 ounces. “This just in! Ricardo Reyes Martinez recently caught this incredible 39.9-kilogram (88-pound) white seabass to potentially set the new IGFA All-Tackle and Men’s 30-lb Line Class World Records,” the IGFA wrote on Facebook. announced the catch this week as a potential record breaker in two categories. Ricardo Reyes Martinez landed the giant seabass on April 30, but the International Game Fish Assn. An angler fishing recently in Baja California Sur, Mexico, caught an 88-pound white seabass that could break a 67-year-old world record.
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