I often catch my own, so I'm not a frequent buyer of supermarket fish, and when I do buy fish it's usually frozen (wild caught) salmon, cod or haddock.

Earlier this week when I was at our local No Frills grocery store I came across some frozen fillets I hadn't seen before called "arrowtooth flounder". They looked excellent, so I bought a bag. Big mistake. I should have looked them up first.

The first clue you get that arrowtooth flounder might have been a mistake is when you go to turn over the fillets in the frying pan. They start to fall apart.

And by the time they're done, you basically end up with a fish mush.

Moral of the story... no matter how good the fillets look, stay away from this fish.

Here's a news item that lays it out well...

http://www.adn.com/article/alaska-flatf ... t-near-you

The part about additives doesn't play too well either!

I took the remaining fillets back to the store for a refund and gave the manager a copy of the news article. I suggested to him that his store doesn't want to be selling such a poor quality product.

So when it comes to your search for a cheaper alternative source of fish fillets, would you say you have floundered ?

I resemble that remark.

I guess we could also say, in the great war against unfairly priced fish fillets, you have found yourself in Flounder's field ?

During and after WW11 the British wet fish shops sold fish fillets known as rock salmon which tasted good.

Later we found out it was Dogfish (shark family) caught inshore.

He sold you dogfish? What a Shark! And you fell for it, hook line and sinker. Didn't something smell fishy to you? I guess next time you'll just have to cast your net a little wider. There's plenty of other fish in the sea.

Ugly fish, aren't they?

Ah... I can see I've opened up a can of nightcrawlers.

Many nibbles.