why do people call it sea bass ?
sorry not sure where else to find this answer...
why do people usually refer to sea bass while ordering at a restaurant or something (instead of the shortened bass). is there some sort of land bass that i'm not aware of ?; air bass (space bass) ? |
bass would mean "increase the bass in any multimedia equipment".
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Sea bass as opposed to fresh-water bass.
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thanks gnashley... so sea-water is always salt-water.
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Yes, "sea bass" is an ocean fish, just as "sea trout" is an ocean fish.
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Sea Bass is my nickname for my cat (His name is Sebastian).
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It is a type of Grouper.
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seriously, never heard of them being referred to as sea trout before (is that because there is no such thing as fresh water trout ?) i dont eat seafood; probably the reason i am ignorant in such matters. |
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I think to some extent this sort of terminology is regional. I grew up on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Sea:), and "sea trout" was a common term there. |
A sea is smaller than an ocean. Think of a sea as a kind of "sub ocean" or region. For example the Sargasso is a sea region of the Atlantic (Ocean), the Arabian Sea is in the Indian Ocean and the Bering Sea is in the Pacific.
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I think this nit has been sufficiently split.
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Splitting hairs
Picking nits |
Because "Lance Bass" was taken.
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In many countries the names they call fish or other products are a result of market testing. A type of fish that was called by some name in 1950 may now have a new name to try to encourage shoppers to try it. Calling a fish sea bass or whitefish may be easier for shoppers to try.
In reality the fish ought to be sold as exactly what fish they are. I'd suspect that a dna test of the fish in a local store would result in some very different than marked results. |
jefro speaks true. http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2013/02/21/...d-fraud-study/
but I don't think it has anything to do with "sea trout." I do think that that is a truly vernacular usage. Mahi-mahi is one example of a marketing name for a fish. It used to be called "dolphin fish" (no relation to porpoises). If you read Kon-Tiki (and, if you haven't, you should), there are frequent references to eating "dolphin," by which they mean the fish, not the mammal. They came up with mahi-mahi because of Flipper. |
It doesn't help matters that there is no such thing as a fish:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/by/fish ;) |
What a Bass player may look like
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