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Wildlife & Ecology Issues: Discuss Hats off to ASDA -Monkfish off the shelves in the General Diving Forums forums: Good to see. BBC NEWS | Business | Monkfish taken off menu at Asda Snash...

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Old 01-02-07, 09:21 AM
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Thumbs up Hats off to ASDA -Monkfish off the shelves
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BBC NEWS | Business | Monkfish taken off menu at Asda


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Yay! Ticked them off on my list of "fish I want to see" the year before last. Feisty little buggers.
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Thumbs up Good on Asda,
Shame Tesco seems to be going the wrong way :-

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Most of the products on sale are Chinese, including soy sauce, sheep's feet and even live turtles.
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"We've decided to ban monkfish sales as a precaution until the industry takes appropriate action to ensure its long term survival."

Asda was unable to confirm how much monkfish it sold though said it was considerably less than the most popular choices of cod, haddock and salmon.
Trying not to be cynical here but it could be that ASDA customers are of a different social / economic profile to Tesco or other supermarket chains and ASDA just arent selling enough monkfish therefore the positive press generated when they put an eco spin on withdrawing the product from shelves is worth more to them than the sales.....
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They were on offer here last week. Big pile of them about 200Kg.

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Trying not to be cynical here but it could be that ASDA customers are of a different social / economic profile to Tesco or other supermarket chains and ASDA just arent selling enough monkfish therefore the positive press generated when they put an eco spin on withdrawing the product from shelves is worth more to them than the sales.....
I think you've hit the nail on the head.

The last time I was in ADSA, there was 2 ladies of ill repute there trying (and failing) to shoplift a dress and a bottle of Thundebird. Classy
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Oh Bugger I love Monk fish and I was unaware they were beem trawled I dont eat shop baught scallops for this reason, so looks like ill have to cross monk fish off my list too which is very disapointing.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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Trying not to be cynical here but it could be that ASDA customers are of a different social / economic profile to Tesco or other supermarket chains and ASDA just arent selling enough monkfish therefore the positive press generated when they put an eco spin on withdrawing the product from shelves is worth more to them than the sales.....
Sadly true, but at least it braught the issue to the attention of people like me.


PS Monk fish is cheeper than Cod. I know this because i was going to buy some yesterday at Tesco but i decided on Breem instead. I kind of wish i had baught the Monk fish now so I could have enjoyed my last one in blisfull ignorance.

I am on a fish and vegtables diet at the momnet.

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Amazing! Here in Scandinavia (and also in France) monkfish is considered to be one of the best fishes for eating and is much more expensive than cod, haddock etc.
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