Talk:Basa fish

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[edit] Catfish

If further research agrees, this may need to be re-catagorized out of Catfishes. According to the externally linked article, the fish looks, cooks, and tastes differently from any catfish. It does not have the typical wide flat mouth, nor does it have "whiskers". It's scientific classification does not identify it as a catfish.

--TecBrat 13:42, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

It's in the family Pangasiidae (unless where I found that was wrong), which is one of the Catfish families (see the article). It is different from the normal kind of "catfish" we find at the grocery store here, though. Scott Ritchie 08:13, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

You are correct. This "basa fish" is a catfish species of the shark catfish family. No matter what people think, it is a catfish taxonomically speaking. --Melanochromis 23:09, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

More fradulent bias found in Wilipedia. The fact is that in side by side blind taste tests the Vietnamese Basa tastes almost identical and actually better than american channel catfish. Simple fact.

Quoted from http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-17/112344461913630.xml&storylist=louisiana "He said the free catfish attracted 102 people Saturday. On Sunday 200 people had taken the taste-test by 5 p.m. Of those, 49.5 percent chose the Vietnamese fish, 46 percent chose the U.S. catfish and 4 percent saw no difference.

Sample said 52 percent of the female liked the Vietnamese basa and 47 percent of the males preferred it."

So you can see this free Wikipedia Encyclopedia has been misused again and further effort needs to be taken here to prevent misguided political and racist bias from getting in here. Thank You!