Indeed it is. I once worked at a fish packing house on the Outer Banks, and a big percentage of the fish were seperated out as crab trap bait- 8 cents a pound. We were allowed to take whatever we wanted out of those boxes. Blowfish- (chicken of the sea) we cut a bunch of those everyday, and flash fried them back at home over a Coleman stove. Croakers, man, the best. I still love them. All kinds of weird fish, even pinfish. We drew the line at sea robins.

Our boss, who was a good guy, found a market among the Asians for cuttlassfish, and A vietnamese woman would come twice a week to collect them, and a bunch of other fish that nobody wanted- even leatherjackets and things like that. Our boss began to think of new names- we had a box of some kind of of silvery, flat looking fish- can't remember what they were called- our boss looked down at them, put his hands on the sides of his head, thinking hard, and said, Yessss! That's it!! those are.....he thought some more... SWEET BUTTER JACKS!!! He slammed the lid on the box,,whipped out a Sharpie and wrote the new name on the lid. The fish went out (this was in the days of all cash midnight transactions at the old Fulton Street Fish Market in NYC.) The box sold out in the first few minutes, and a new market for whatever those little fish were, was born. I never knew what they called the cuttlassfish.

i'll stick to my favorites unless someone wants to post a good recipe. i've eaten ants, grubs and worms as well as grasshoppers so i guess i shouldn't complain.

I am a firm believer in what the good Lord has provided us. If we can kill it, we can eat it. If we can't beat them eat them policy. I worked in a fish house over winter a few years. I learned real fast there is more ediable fish and food available if we only turn our head in the right direction. I only limit my tastes to not comsuming Tipoli. Just something about eating from the toilet bowl that won't allow me to put it in my mouth I hate the taste of TP even after being rinsed.

Snakehead eats good. AND, since they gobble up young bass & bream, they also make good fertilizer. So if you don't want to eat em, just feed em to next year's tomatoes.

Tilapia... trash fish extraordinaire.

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I think tilapia is what rick had in mind. They are low in mercury but loaded with Omega-6, which is worse for your heart than fatty hamburgers.

every carp I catch, gets turned into fertilizer for my plants, my garden, etc...other than that, I'll eat most anything that doesn't eat me first. :D