"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>
> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>
>> Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>>
>>> Lou wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've got orange roughy thawing for dinner and I think I'd like
>>>> to deep fry them and make hush puppies.
>>>
>>> I'm not generally a tree-hugger and I rarely get preachy, but were you
>>> aware
>>> that orange roughy is endangered?
>>
>> Is there a "best source" you can provide for a list of endengered
>> species?
>> What organization is actually the final authority on these? Or can
>> anybody that loves chihuahuas put up a website about their "endangered"
>> status and if enough people believe...really believe...they (the
>> chihuahuas!) will become so?
>
> The problem with orange roughy is that they don't mate until
> they are years old. I wouldn't buy it, it is endangered.
>
> nancy
I was very surprised to see orange roughy back on menus and in grocery
stores. Every store I knew couldn't get it anymore because it was
classified as endangered. Sorry, no citations, just what I recall from the
news.

Jill