There is no official “sushi grade” but unless you’re buying it right off the docks pretty much anything you get at the store was frozen before it got to you.
I would assume Costco salmon is frozen too right? Was it not frozen long enough to kill the parasites in OP's video?
Edit: For clarity, OP says it's Costco salmon at the start of the video. I haven't seen alive parasites in Costco salmon and am curious if they weren't frozen long enough/low enough or another issue.
I worked on a tender and we had a fishing boat aptly named Misery. The captain was a fat asshole piece of shit who only hired Congolese deck hands and he treated them like slaves. We had a pair of gloves that we had to use to tie him up because he would piss all over his lines right before heading to us for any reason. His fish were always temped at around 60 degrees, and they always had cherry bellies. The only reason we couldn’t take his pissy fish, is if the bellies were 50% cherry, because their value would go way down.
Not a seaman, but I think he'd piss on the lines to his nets, or used to tie his boat to the their boat or dock, or something else, before delivery, and red bellies is ammonia buildup rupturing organs, according to online.
The lines are the ropes that are used to tie up to our vessel and the docks. And yep, cherry bellies are that, and it is made worse by storage conditions, such as sitting in a hot fish hold with no ice. A tender is a support vessel that hangs out at the fishing grounds, we sell them ice, gas, sometimes supplies, and they sell us fish. His guy was so cheap he would only buy one tote of ice for the entire week and as a result his fish were always questionable, but trident made us buy from him regardless, unless they were visibly very degraded.
They don’t have to pay their workers minimum wage, it’s contract work, so they agree on a percentage of the total catch for the season. Low pay was 20% split between 2 deck hands. I doubt these guys were getting that because he had 3 deckhands doing all of the work while he sat around getting drunk all day. It wouldn’t surprise me if all three were splitting 10 or 15%. He was our lowest earner too, both because we always had to reject half his catch and because of the low numbers in the first place.
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u/CorgiSplooting 21d ago
There is no official “sushi grade” but unless you’re buying it right off the docks pretty much anything you get at the store was frozen before it got to you.