Nancy Young wrote:

>
> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "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.
>>
>> Cite, please. No, not a blog. An actual authority, as I requested.
>> Again -- where are the authorities for endangered species?
>
> I used endangered in the generic sense, not the legal sense. This
> wikipekia entry uses better words.

That would explain why nobody's produced an actual cite that it is an
actual endangered species. Thanks for getting back on this.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_roughy

I've been looking up orange roughys until I'm blue in the face; I'll
assume that that's like all the others, which warn of a predicament for
the species without using the established term "endangered".


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