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Sated with salmon and sole? Tired of tuna? Creative chefs have begun to challenge taste buds with such species as amberjack, cobia and pout. For good measure, some imaginative toques are cooking the sea creatures with ocean-born vegetables: alaria, arame, hiziki, kelp...
Sated with salmon and sole? Tired of tuna? Creative chefs have begun to challenge taste buds with such species as amberjack, cobia and pout. For good measure, some imaginative toques are cooking the sea creatures with ocean-born vegetables: alaria, arame, hiziki, kelp...
...Then a group of gray blotches suddenly appears on the paper. Poveromo hastily baits three hooks with mullet and tosses them over. Within 30 seconds, a mammoth tug bends one of the poles nearly in half. The ensuing 15-minute battle ends with the landing of a 50-lb. amberjack...
...hottest-selling angler's aids are electronic depth sounders like the one Poveromo used to locate his amberjack. Similar systems have been employed by commercial fishermen since World War II. But like VCRs, fish finders have jumped in sales as their prices have plunged, to as little as $99 for the simplest units. Today some 20 manufacturers turn out more than 200 sounders designed for freshwater and salt water. One of the largest, Alabama-based Humminbird, has doubled its sales during the past four years, to more than $50 million in 1987. Its chief rival, Lowrance Electronics of Tulsa...
...that tastes like candy, but if it's called a ratfish, it won't sell." Speaking of the tilapia, a prolific and delicately flavored fish, he says, "It doesn't sound like something you'd want to eat." Bill Demmond is not so sure. "Fishermen couldn't give away amberjack," he says. "Now it sells for $1 a pound wholesale. We can't keep enough seafood. If they catch it, we'll look at it, because if it swims, it's edible...