The truth behind dory fish | Undercover Asia | Full Episode
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Channel: CNA
Views: 2,046,559
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Keywords: cna, channel newsasia, pangasius, fish, vietnam fish, dory fish, catfish
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Length: 46min 49sec (2809 seconds)
Published: Thu Sep 19 2019
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TLDR
Dory fish are Vietnam catfish called Pangasius and are exported from Vietnam. They are cheap because they can grow in smaller fish farm and are able to eat a lot.
The fishes exported and shown in the video are regulated by government, those that do not, will not get exported from Vietnam.
Around 1 in 10 fishes in Singapore could potentially be mislabeled. So avoid fillet and buy actual fish with eyes and grills intact.
Potential fish identifying technology is being built by NUS.
Highlights 1) there’s many cases of fish fraud worldwide - essentially mislabeled fishes. Where they claim to be one species but it’s not and the taste is indistinguishable 2) 1 in 10 fishes in Singapore could potentially be mislabeled or could contain other chemicals or mixed fish particles of a cheaper fish substitute 3) A technology in NUS of fish DNA fingerprinting is developed to test for such oddities and they’ve bought a few off the shelf fish from Supermarkets to explore. They also work closely with the UK research universities to pioneer this technology.
I always tell people don’t eat the “Dory” garbage fish. Not particularly because of any food safety reason. It just sucks and has disgusting taste and texture. And not to be confused with the more expensive John Dory fish.
https://youtu.be/RYYf8cLUV5E
They discuss it in this documentary.
If your fish and chips cost less than 10 bucks, high chance it’s a catfish