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Asda "English River Trout"
They keep rainbows in sea cages over here (Ireland) and Supermarkets sell it
as Sea trout !! "Nogood Boyo" wrote in message ... What do you think of Asda selling farmed rainbows as "English River Trout"..? (The small print confirms that they are farmed in the UK.) How can a Pacific salmon species, which reproduces naturally in the UK only in the Derbyshire Wye (so they used to say) and which in this case has been produced artificially in a fish farm and will therefore never have seen a river, be described as an "English River Trout"..? If you agree with me that this is outrageous, would you like to check whether they're on sale in your local store and complain as I have? No response at all from Asda. Trading Standards are pursuing it. -- Nogood Boyo |
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Asda "English River Trout"
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 22:15:32 in uk.rec.fishing.game pmf wrote:
They keep rainbows in sea cages over here (Ireland) and Supermarkets sell it as Sea trout !! gawd... that's even worse..! sea trout have to be worth more than "English river trout"..! -- Nogood Boyo |
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Asda "English River Trout"
"Nogood Boyo" wrote in message ... On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 22:15:32 in uk.rec.fishing.game pmf wrote: They keep rainbows in sea cages over here (Ireland) and Supermarkets sell it as Sea trout !! gawd... that's even worse..! sea trout have to be worth more than "English river trout"..! -- Nogood Boyo LOL, marketeers as crafty as a barrow load of monkeys! Trout from the sea = sea trout! Who would pay a lawyer to fight it and lose? |
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Asda "English River Trout"
In article , roddytoo
writes LOL, marketeers as crafty as a barrow load of monkeys! Trout from the sea = sea trout! Who would pay a lawyer to fight it and lose? Any Lawyer would be skating on thin ice with this definition. The fish are two entirely different species. -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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Asda "English River Trout"
I saw some nice rainbows on a french market stall labelled "Truite de Mer".
Would they qualify as french sea trout? Anyway, has anyone noticed the smoked salmon labelling: Scottish smoked salmon (Nowegian salmon smoked in scotland) Smoked Scottish salmon (Scottish salmon smoked somewhere else) Smoked salmon from Scotland (Nowegain salmon, smoked in Sweden, and landed at a Scottish port en route to London) and so on... Mark "W. D. Grey" wrote in message ... In article , roddytoo writes LOL, marketeers as crafty as a barrow load of monkeys! Trout from the sea = sea trout! Who would pay a lawyer to fight it and lose? Any Lawyer would be skating on thin ice with this definition. The fish are two entirely different species. -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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Asda "English River Trout"
Re salmon labelling
A few years ago a NY retailer was offering "Scottish smoked salmon" at a cheap price. Turned out to be pacific salmon, smoked in NY "in the Scottish style" ie cold smoked! Back to Rainbow trout, as an ex fish farmer, we used to steer clear of river trout as a term, because of the muddy connotations. Trout fed with real or artificial shrimp extract, were often sold by retailers as salmon trout, because of the pink flesh colour. This was cosidered acceptable as salmon trout is not a genuine term , more a fishmonger's poetic licence - remember rock salmon (Dogfish)? "Mark Elliott" wrote in message .. . I saw some nice rainbows on a french market stall labelled "Truite de Mer". Would they qualify as french sea trout? Anyway, has anyone noticed the smoked salmon labelling: Scottish smoked salmon (Nowegian salmon smoked in scotland) Smoked Scottish salmon (Scottish salmon smoked somewhere else) Smoked salmon from Scotland (Nowegain salmon, smoked in Sweden, and landed at a Scottish port en route to London) and so on... Mark "W. D. Grey" wrote in message ... In article , roddytoo writes LOL, marketeers as crafty as a barrow load of monkeys! Trout from the sea = sea trout! Who would pay a lawyer to fight it and lose? Any Lawyer would be skating on thin ice with this definition. The fish are two entirely different species. -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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Asda "English River Trout"
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 at 19:44:20 in uk.rec.fishing.game Nogood Boyo
wrote: What do you think of Asda selling farmed rainbows as "English River Trout"..? (The small print confirms that they are farmed in the UK.) How can a Pacific salmon species, which reproduces naturally in the UK only in the Derbyshire Wye (so they used to say) and which in this case has been produced artificially in a fish farm and will therefore never have seen a river, be described as an "English River Trout"..? If you agree with me that this is outrageous, would you like to check whether they're on sale in your local store and complain as I have? No response at all from Asda. Trading Standards are pursuing it. The response received from Trading Standards is as follows: "The response from our colleagues in Leeds, who received communication from the suppliers of ASDA regarding the enquiry. They have stated that they use the fast flowing waters of the River Test, Kennet and the Itchen in their growing process. That is achieved by diverting water from these rivers, through a growing operation and back into the main river channels, 35 million gallons pass through per day. So enabling the trout to display their natural process of swimming against a current. Fish grown are rainbow trout, however they are grown in river water whose location is in England. Brown trout can be found in rivers however rainbow trout are now more abundant than brown through out the UK, assisted by the restocking of rainbow trout over the last 100 years. The supplier goes on to state that it was not their intention to cause confusion or hide the type of trout, but to emphasis the point of the difference of English Trout grown for ASDA using English River water. West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service have forwarded our concerns regarding the present labelling of the English River Trout, to ASDA by stating that purchasers may believe that the trout have been taken from a river. And should they fail to see the indication ?Farmed in the UK?, the assumption will be that these trout are wild fish, caught from the river. Even if the indication is seen ?Farmed in the UK? together with the description ?English River Trout? they will assume that there is some method by which trout can be farmed in a river, e.g. by the use of cages or nets. Clearly these assumptions would be wrong, and the labels are likely to mislead. The action taken during this enquiry, has been to advise ASDA, by the use of the Home Authority Principle. The advice given by our colleagues in West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service was to amend the labelling, to address the above concerns." -- Nogood Boyo |
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Asda "English River Trout"
In article , Nogood Boyo
writes The action taken during this enquiry, has been to advise ASDA, by the use of the Home Authority Principle. The advice given by our colleagues in West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service was to amend the labelling, to address the above concerns." Well done Nogood Boyo, you made them sit up and take notice. The other day ASDA were advertising their knocking back of prices, at the same time they put the price of bread up by about 8%....:-( -- Bill Grey http://www.billboy.co.uk |
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Asda "English River Trout"
You Can't get better than WELSH BROWN TROUT!
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