Us 'workers' need a break - first time since lockdown. 
I don't think it has been banned, it is just called Swai over here, to avoid it being confused with catfish, which it was being sold as. Actually, testing revealed that people preferred its' taste to Catfish. Catfish farming has powerful friends in government, though, so Basa gets called Swai. I think tariffs may be higher as well. For me, if I want to eat Cod, I buy Cod. Accept no substitutes.
Thought you might like to see the boat l used to help out on from time to time when l was a youngster.
Never noticed any pinkish colour but I suppose it may depend on their feeding ground. I got the info about dying with cochineal from somebody who lived around Newcastle somewhere.
Yuk.
Shocking!
Got dogfish mainly in creels when fishing for prawns {langoustine to you}. A few years ago there was an English guy with an ancient French trawler who had set lines off the entrance to Loch Sunart and seemed to catch enough to make it pay when selling to an English market. At the time I was for my sins effectively piermaster of the Fisherman's Pier and I had to keep shifting him off as I was frightened the boat would sink and block the pier. He eventually abandoned it on the non working side of the pier and one of the larger boats here towed it out to deep water where it accidentally sank.
Now it's warm, overcast and breezy.
The cover all name for such a fish used to be a "flatty" or maybe "flattie" ...... maybe thats not a good selling name tho'
It was the wrong shape for a flounder, closest would be a brill, except it wasn't, because the fins were wrong for a brill. Definitely not a turbot, it wasn't fugly enough.
It's a bit late in the day for a picture.
