By the way, US, Australia, and European country had been dumping their rubbish in Asian country. So stop being a hypocrite commenting on other country of pollution and human rights. Nauseating.
Exactly just as they created the can food concept! They did that same thing in the caribbean islands till they make the government pass laws that the locals can't raise chickens to sell but the country must import their chemical laced poultry
It's as if saying to the Asians growers that....you're not qualified to produce aquaproducts laced with this growth hormones and antibiotics just the way western handles it professionally, and dumps it in your markets and groceries...🤣🤣🤣👊👊👊🥶🥶🥶🧐
"Catfish from Asia has been proven to contain cancer-causing chemicals, unapproved drugs, industrial waste..." - LOL they scared of imported catfish when maybe most of their food already has those. 😅
the fish were farmed naturally only in cages with provided food. why does they said its dangerous? they think cheap fish need to put another substances which will increase its price? American so weird
@@aidasaair3698 Well..Because of Albino Disorders, they concluded everything & everyone elsewhere around the Globes have to be as colorless as the ◽🏠 that has been Washing Tons of Hands of blood stains and 👹👺 Misdeeds Criminal Activities they 👈 scars in other's homelands in those past years-long..However, when it comes to political agendas & green scraps notes, their minds are murky and 🌑 worst than those Mekong Rivers that instead of growths and make things lighter, their mindsets R so 🌑 and polluted that if the fish🐠🐠 can walk up on inland with their fins to survive..Bet ya they would in sec.. What a SHAME..🙄🙄..
I was expecting a lab analysis of water quality, fish meat contents from this clip. a mere reading of the contents on the fish feed packing don't mean anything. a more scientific and evidential base approach is needed in upholding the spirit of investigative journalism. after watching the clip don't ans its own question at all.
Research doesn't work like that. It's your responsibility to read published journals and draw your conclusion. You can't expect a documentary to be a complete research. You have been poisoned by the previous dubious videos that didn't do tests neither
I was expecting that too.....not just mislabeling. So ridiculous. All those houses on the water... no electricity.....no water pipes ....where are the flush toilets? Pooping in the river....... Typical.
@@wandowander9360 Westerner busy protected their people and you Asian peoples and government busy money hungry and corrupted.... so it is always good to be a westerner.
Hi there, my background in medical, chemical and environmental field: I can only tell my wife when go shopping for food: 1// Small wild seafood with short life span because the short life cycle tends to help minimize the toxicity being stored in the seafood creature system. 2// Grow your own veggies and fruits as much as you can. 3// Only buy organic meat as much as you can.
1. Capelin Roe sold as Prawn Roe 2. Flounder sold as Halibut 3. Indian Halibut sold as Sole 4. Pacific Salmon sold as Atlantic Salmon 5. Pangasius sold as Toman (Giant Snakehead)
this is a bloody damn lazy documentary, instead of letting 3 sides argue for 5 minutes on whether the water is suitable for farming, why don't the producer go and find out or get a test on the water quality? So frustrating, can't watch anymore!
there other vids on this subject.main prob there,was the pellets,are contaminated.makes the fish sick,then 'biotics make them worse.you should look up chicken..my son is 9 1/2 ft tall.joke.
@@CutieRingoJoy That's like saying don't eat beef if you don't want to eat grass, or not to eat potato chips if you can't eat the dirt they grow in. How are people these days so disconnected from where their food actually comes from?
Normal loh, when US can’t compete, their culture are to throw false accusations even to creates one just to do their propaganda to paint it bad. They been doing it for decades!!!
Why label the fish as Catfish in the USA when it's clearly not? Also, the report in not very conclusive on the safety of the the fish. Why not do some independent tests on the heavy metals, carcinogenic elements, and organoleptic pesticides contents too?
Just test the imported fish products for unacceptable levels of pollution and carcinogens. Propaganda against Vietnamese fish farmers and industry is unacceptable and unfair.
its been done in spain alone this year 40 tons of fish was empounded by autority due to toxic level of some products used in fedding being way over the alowed, unfortunatly its not easy to check every shipment, spain autorities will place more 200 inspectors just to inspect food coming from asia, south america, north america (yes USA and Canada) and africa
@@FreeFrogWatching Hahaha! Okay! I was mistaken. But yeah, that Trump Derangement Syndrome is really strong. That's how propaganda works, throughout history.
I'm asian and I would gladly choose american and european products due to increased quality and great attention to customer preferences and detail. asian countries should do better and use western standards to benchmark so that they can improve. peace
There are so many fishes labeled wrongly in SG supermarkets, and selling at a much higher price. One very good example is Rainbow trout (it's same colour like the salmon inside but it has a milder taste, actually outwards apparence also resemble salmon) labeled and sold as Norwegian salmon. Maybe the team at NUS can check too.
Your right. Peru raised farmed salmon and it collapsed due to fish pen pollution etc. Salmon are not an indigenous species In Peru. Canada does And buries the health risk as its big export $$$$. You can't get near a fish pen on British Columbia's west coast to get a fish to analyze. So researchers watch for an eagle to grab a penned fish and test it. It's contaminated so they don't want it analyzed. However researchers watched eagles grabbing salmon from the pen. And found some eagles landed and tore off part of their catch and left the rest. They confirmed the salmon was in fact contaminated. Tested it against store bough fresh salmon and confirmed the contamination from more than 1 source in Pacific and Atlantic salmon. I think Sweden does the same and farmed salmon goes to the EU. Fishery minister was fired after bringing the tainted fish problem to light. As to the not being bottom feeders comment, this is a water quality problem from uneaten food and fish waste products in their pens causing or being the problem. Additionally manufactured fish food is part of the cause. I'd eat USA farmed catfish or tilapia but that would be occasional these days. Consume Nothing from Asia farmed or supposibly Wild Caught !
@@jackiestowe6987 Yes, salmons arent bottom feeder but still, watch the documentary called Seaspiracy on netflix, you'd be gross out by the salmon agriculture
exactly, and test the flesh of the fish. They had that whole laboratory at their disposal. Guessing a lot of money for the program came from Vietnam fisheries.
lots of Farmed Fish or shrimps come from Indonesia, but we dont grow it inside the river that we used daily. We use waterponds and we have water treatment so it is sterile when the water that had been used are dumped. Lots of farmed fish are using nutrients, however, all the nutrients are half organics and half are produced. And all the nutrients are produced by big companies. I am just shocked in the narrative they use "Fish From Asia" while Asia have lots of countries and lots of Farmed Fish Varieties (Shrimps for example).
@@melalcantara4377 Depends on the area . For Shrimp farming, which are sensitive to bad water. It easy to die. so we need best quality of sea water to produce.
@@melalcantara4377 Indonesian water is vast.. there are deep water fish, lake and river fish... In fact, not only importing fish from Indonesia, but some countries also stealing fish from Indonesia... So, how dangerous is Indonesian water?
its not demonizing, its just investigating what we are eating, same thing hapens in other coutnries just asians are the only ones complaining when they are seling piseness fish not wating theyr customers to know
People believe “Dory” is similar to expensive fish like Cod, grouper, or amberjack. No folks, Dory is a catfish, raised similar to shrimp in Vietnam. It isnt a pelagic fish that swim the pacific and are caught by boats.
Fish & Co restaurant & Long John Silver restaurant in Singapore has been lying to customers saying that their fish & chips are made of Dory(saltwater) fish when the Truth is they are Swai(pangasiidae/basa) fish from freshwater.
so this is CNA version of a CBC: marketplace. they tested multiple seafood in canada and confronted the restaurants that sold mis-labelled seafood as expensive counterparts. like they found multiple places replacing Lobster with langoustine... and when you tell customer Lobster, people think of the Boston Lobster. Search Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare where the restaurant owner sold Norway Lobster as Boston lobster.
Not sure about fish but in USA, they wash their chicken in chlorine. They actually NEED to wash the chicken in chlorine.. one can judge for themselves the quality of the chicken meat and how they are produced.
@@markcasila8310 it's all about perspective, the video is shot by professionals to look beautiful, with calming music and scripts that portraits green and sustainable fishing.
I have to watch this more seriously...coz i ate pangasius all the time, the packaging said that it was imported from vietnam, it taste like catfish but doesn't smell fishy at all, which was great for me
Issue like this was also raised during the 1990's in the Philippines 'copra'(coconut oil). that it contains harmful fungi, that is harmful to human health. But fungi per se are generally beneficial to humans. One those that are colored white or black are harmful to humans because these are the converters in the food chain. It breaks down the compounds into reusable elements. It turns out that the brouhaha was about selling the palm oil and soybean oil to the food manufacturers. Those food products using those oils tastes awful after a day. Those cannot really replace coconut oil in food production. If you want to know if the fish is beneficial or harmful just test it as soon as it arrive on your shores. Your countries may have that agency that does it. Rely on there findings. Do not rely on reporters and professors who are paid to do what their sponsors want!
Another excellent documentary, thanks! Again, I appeal to you to please please organize your other documentary series into playlists so that it's easier for viewers to follow and watch the rest!
Hi xeenslayer! you can check out the entire Undercover Asia playlist here: ua-cam.com/play/PLbnMTcZEga8Qg2iAhT4Zyu4zjU-DYSiaB.html And we're dropping 2 more episodes tonight, so look out for them! And for more playlists, please check out the channel page!
I was a bit confused, as I know if it is Dory fish it is refer to John Dory the fish from the Sea and if it is Pagasus it is refer to THE CATFISH. Singapore need to get the label correctly.
Speaking as a chef, I worked for a massive endeavor in the US years ago. They would order this shit by the container full, direct from the producer( farmer). They even would ask what name we wanted on the case of filets. It would come in saying “grouper” “Snapper”. And we would sell it as Grouper and Snapper. People ate the shit out of it. Be careful when visiting shitty restaurants along the coast, it happens all the time. Some states have outlawed it . PS. I’m not proud of it. It wasn’t my call and I eventually left because of ethical concerns.
Greg Cekot Can you expand more on which coast of US you're referring to? Company you worked for? How to know (besides visually) if a restaurant is one of these shitty restaurants you're referring to?
I just discovered that Dory is what Malaysian call ikan patin. Wow, I hate Dory (usually processed fillets), cooked in western style cooking. Ikan patin are usually sold freshly caught and cooked in flavourful broth. My mind is blown now lol
TBH, I've known pangasius as Cream Dory long before I became familiar with John Dory. The latter is not a common fish where I'm from. The name really meant nothing to people here but the rather generic white fish that always came as boneless skinless fillets. There's nothing unhealthy about them, they're just not very interesting to eat, IMO. Compared to tilapia, the most common alternative here, pangasius tend to be mushy when cooked and quite bland. But if they're providing so much livelihood to a country like Vietnam, there's nothing wrong with that. Like the video said towards the end, the Vietnamese farmers aren't the ones mislabeling the fish, and its a problem with several other fish species that get mislabelled.
This catfish farmers in America initially pushed for laws banning this catfish to be called catfish because they can't compete. Imagine that, a catfish can't be called a catfish.
Hello there! Catfish can grow very huge if you give them time and space. Catfish can grow bigger than the average person. Catfish are bottom feeders and scavengers. Om Mani Pad Me Hung! ETN....
Shrimp has so much antibotic in them too. My mom still eats their import fish but she dont buy it as much as before. She forgot the fish in the car for a month and it never rotten.
Soon there won’t be enough fish left in the seas due to overfishing. Which countries have the largest fleets of factory ships, catching everything in their nets. Many to be thrown overboard, many also to be turn into... animal feed. Let’s not forget the tons of canned and frozen fish that will be disposed of when they can’t be sold come their expiry dates
what to do, these countries always bad mouth. They want cheap so come to asia lo. Now want the standards to be what they want but they dont want to invest the required infrastructure. So, Asia can do what? Get bullied lo.
A fee years ago i was in spain and everyone was shoked with the documentary and stopped eating Panga, I don’t know why but I thought the attack was too brutal. For me if a tv program spoon feeds me information like that i get suspicious of their intentions. It is never going to be for my own benefit that is for sure.
This is the same fish we find in rivers here, that people call "ikan patin". It's also grown here in cages in some of the larger rivers (on a much smaller scale than in Vietnam). You can find the fillets imported from Vietnam in the supermarkets, but all the best parts have been cut off (my theory is that the Vietnamese keep these parts for themselves, since they're the most delicious, and westerners wouldn't eat them). What are the best parts? When you buy the fresh fish from the market, the best parts are the fatty bits around the belly, right behind the head. It's sort of like how the fatty parts of the tuna and salmon (around the belly) are the most expensive cuts in sushi restaurants. If you go to Kuantan, they sell "ikan patin masak tempoyak" - you get slices of the whole fish, and the most popular slices are the head and the part right behind it.
It's almost everyday I'm disetting and filleting patin, I think it's different while patin is an oily/muddy fish, while sorry is less oily and bright white flesh fish, it's more flaky
It's the same species (or genus). The differences probably have to do with the environment and the feed, and also might have something to do with the preparation. I'm sure the Vietnamese remove the oily bits (which are the most delicious parts) since we don't get those when we buy dory fillets.
The place where fish swim is not important. Instead what it eats is what should be considered. In that case, we cannot eat prawns or shrimps, which eat rotting food. Isn't the world enjoying it? Why do the US government openly show their ignorance just to boost their fish sakes. Funny people!!
I've eaten Pangasius in various parts of Asia and the taste is so so (for me). It's a very delicate flavour, if you don't have highly astute taste buds you probably won't notice the taste and only feel the texture. The texture is also not as good as many other fish too. Personally I feel this documentary is bias. I've been to the Mekong Delta and I've seen the conditions in which people treat it. If this water is being taking off to use for fish farming pools then you should stay well clear of any products made in it. This (and almost all south east asian rivers) are preposterously unhygienic and I would never intentionally eat anything grown in it. Just as I wouldn't eat from The Ganges or the Chao Phraya River, I wouldn't put anything this polluted into my body. If there is so much crime, health issues and hygiene concern over this it's easier just to stop buying this stuff and force them to get their act together or face market drought. Besides, there are way better alternatives for taste and nutrition. Also, I don't know why people freak out about horse in the UK, I've eaten horse in Asia (where it's not an issue) and it was really lean, tasty and high quality meat. Why are we forcing this industry to covert measures. it should be a respected industry of its own, why do we have to vilify an industry because you once saw black beauty or Mister Ed and have developed an opinion on their character. Pigs are very friendly animals with a nurturing and loving side, which has made the ideal as pets recently. Still doesn't stop people guzzling them down. I think it's high time we stopped letting our opinions run things and listened to the (hopefully non-bias or paid for) evidence!
I am in a related business .The only safe marine food are the one from CANADA . They have so much large parts of Ocean that do not need to go to Artificial Aqua Culture and have the most strict regulations and for Tuna the best is Persian Gulf .
I looked at Bangkok river when I was in Bangkok, it is so true that the color of the water is brown and yet the boat people are selling food on the boat. How dirty it is one can imagine.
I love the guy protecting the delta saying hes never seen any evidence the water is polluted. He is wanting to fight for the Asian fish market but wont go get a water sample him self. I wonder why that is, maybe so he can continue to say hes never saw proof of pollution.
I m in import seafood industry and I will tell you the FDA is very strict and they put a high standard to protect American. All food are tested and it will be hell for suppliers who felt the test
By the way, US, Australia, and European country had been dumping their rubbish in Asian country. So stop being a hypocrite commenting on other country of pollution and human rights. Nauseating.
Very true
Exactly just as they created the can food concept! They did that same thing in the caribbean islands till they make the government pass laws that the locals can't raise chickens to sell but the country must import their chemical laced poultry
Truth
It's as if saying to the Asians growers that....you're not qualified to produce aquaproducts laced with this growth hormones and antibiotics just the way western handles it professionally, and dumps it in your markets and groceries...🤣🤣🤣👊👊👊🥶🥶🥶🧐
Ok. But don't eat the fish. We buy everything else they send.
And ...yea our food contains garbage too.
"Catfish from Asia has been proven to contain cancer-causing chemicals, unapproved drugs, industrial waste..." - LOL they scared of imported catfish when maybe most of their food already has those. 😅
Specially their 'farmed' salmons :)
True, especially SE Asia. The corruption countries. Their way of doing business is pay to play.
the fish were farmed naturally only in cages with provided food. why does they said its dangerous? they think cheap fish need to put another substances which will increase its price? American so weird
@@bzzvlog5879 they just cant accept others being better than them head on, so have to play dirty to win..
Egoistic and pathetic..
Like how they brainwashed us thinking MSG is worst than salt.
Business 101: if you can't compete, launch a smear campaign.
Agreed..🤝🌹😉
Politics 101: if you can't compete, launch a smear campaign.
Agreed. Shame on u white people
Life101: If you can't..... ah whateva. Just launch a smear campaign.
@@aidasaair3698 Well..Because of Albino Disorders, they concluded everything & everyone elsewhere around the Globes have to be as colorless as the ◽🏠 that has been Washing Tons of Hands of blood stains and 👹👺 Misdeeds Criminal Activities they 👈 scars in other's homelands in those past years-long..However, when it comes to political agendas & green scraps notes, their minds are murky and 🌑 worst than those Mekong Rivers that instead of growths and make things lighter, their mindsets R so 🌑 and polluted that if the fish🐠🐠 can walk up on inland with their fins to survive..Bet ya they would in sec.. What a SHAME..🙄🙄..
US losing to vietnamese farmers? Sounds familiar lol
What a stupid comment
Lmao, I get it
Stupidazz
Ewwwwuh...that hurts!!
Hahaha that is a fact
I was expecting a lab analysis of water quality, fish meat contents from this clip. a mere reading of the contents on the fish feed packing don't mean anything. a more scientific and evidential base approach is needed in upholding the spirit of investigative journalism. after watching the clip don't ans its own question at all.
Research doesn't work like that. It's your responsibility to read published journals and draw your conclusion. You can't expect a documentary to be a complete research. You have been poisoned by the previous dubious videos that didn't do tests neither
I was expecting that too.....not just mislabeling.
So ridiculous.
All those houses on the water... no electricity.....no water pipes ....where are the flush toilets?
Pooping in the river.......
Typical.
@@JH-dl6vu they do it all the time and most of that time people believe in them
@@gatekeeper1873 probably the scientists can't find anything wrong but are paid to be silent
ich1978 SG ,
7:53 says the people who dumped their thrash in asia and now come back to blame Asia, good job
Tell me about these westerners are hypocrites if anything
American logic
@@ThatOneMalaysianGuy yea it got us to the worlds top economy must be doing something right
@@wandowander9360 Westerner busy protected their people and you Asian peoples and government busy money hungry and corrupted.... so it is always good to be a westerner.
@@english9o99
Who said im Asian?
Hi there, my background in medical, chemical and environmental field: I can only tell my wife when go shopping for food:
1// Small wild seafood with short life span because the short life cycle tends to help minimize the toxicity being stored in the seafood creature system.
2// Grow your own veggies and fruits as much as you can.
3// Only buy organic meat as much as you can.
Noob
When they showed "Dory" from Finding Nemo, I totally lost it..🤣
Me too, checked the comments to see if anyone else noticed that part.
Lol
they said imported catfish is not safe and USA catfish is safe SMELL FISHY!
Feel like commercial scams to me
then you better take a shower although i think you meant "that smells fishy" LOL
@@yokpok85 LOL ...
Catfish are live in the dirty water and they ate dirty compared to other kind of fish...and they goes to toilet tank
@So Young Catfish from the farm is different
1. Capelin Roe sold as Prawn Roe
2. Flounder sold as Halibut
3. Indian Halibut sold as Sole
4. Pacific Salmon sold as Atlantic Salmon
5. Pangasius sold as Toman (Giant Snakehead)
Pacific salmon is preferred. All Atlantic salmon are farmed.
this is a bloody damn lazy documentary, instead of letting 3 sides argue for 5 minutes on whether the water is suitable for farming, why don't the producer go and find out or get a test on the water quality? So frustrating, can't watch anymore!
there other vids on this subject.main prob there,was the pellets,are contaminated.makes the fish sick,then 'biotics make them worse.you should look up chicken..my son is 9 1/2 ft tall.joke.
There was no money for water quality tests after they spent on DNA tests for the frozen fish 😂
Cost to much money.
Please don't judge a river by its color. Only stupid people think dirt is poisonous.
wait what. how about holy ganga rivers india 🤣
So you would eat mud?
@@CutieRingoJoy That's like saying don't eat beef if you don't want to eat grass, or not to eat potato chips if you can't eat the dirt they grow in. How are people these days so disconnected from where their food actually comes from?
@@CutieRingoJoy
Thats like saying you dont eat veggies because they grow in dirt. Or dont eat meat because the cow ate grass.
@@pishangggbanana5126 full of corpses
They say the same thing with tilapia..we've been eating tilapia since i was young and never got sick. I also dont think they are healthier than us.
Normal loh, when US can’t compete, their culture are to throw false accusations even to creates one just to do their propaganda to paint it bad. They been doing it for decades!!!
Cat fish is usually in the mud and mostly people here in the Philippines few eat kind of fish .
Brown murky water in asia river is normal, even in Amazon.
Your sentence structure makes me wonder if Asia has an Amazon as well 😏
Most of it is silt. But ignorant yanks don't know.
The colours of the river water is mainly due to the geology of the terrain it flows through.
Most of the big river . . .
OMG! Have they seen those rivers in the US where they catch their catfish?
Why label the fish as Catfish in the USA when it's clearly not?
Also, the report in not very conclusive on the safety of the the fish. Why not do some independent tests on the heavy metals, carcinogenic elements, and organoleptic pesticides contents too?
Just test the imported fish products for unacceptable levels of pollution and carcinogens. Propaganda against Vietnamese fish farmers and industry is unacceptable and unfair.
Wu Jian Lung Its the same with huawei... The US point finger as soon they get competition
vietnamese people are too poor to afford antibiotics and they probably dont even have enough land for it to be worth it
its been done in spain alone this year 40 tons of fish was empounded by autority due to toxic level of some products used in fedding being way over the alowed, unfortunatly its not easy to check every shipment, spain autorities will place more 200 inspectors just to inspect food coming from asia, south america, north america (yes USA and Canada) and africa
@@markcasila8310 your spelling makes this very unreliable
@@markcasila8310 That is good. Work together with Vietnam. Their farmers will stop using these toxic animal feed.
I saw "Dory" in the title and thought this was going to be about Dory from Finding Nemo. Lol
The fish name was Blue Tang
Cream Dory 😁
Hollywood: Finding Dory 2
Who put agent orange in Vietnam?
Trump, the biggest orange boss
@@FreeFrogWatching If in doubt, blame the one who isn't actually involved in it. LOL!
@@DrakeLimOfficial I was just kidding, but everyone took it very seriously. I know Trump was against it.
@@FreeFrogWatching Hahaha! Okay! I was mistaken. But yeah, that Trump Derangement Syndrome is really strong. That's how propaganda works, throughout history.
So i would say " no more foreigns (english native speaker expecially) products in SEA area ." Asia have no problem with our own foods. Easy.
lepatsedap asian countries should also stop importing foods from the west. i am sure asia will survive
Agree
@@lifeisgood2542 totally agree. Make their industry collapse and they will come begging us to safe their arse.
Some how, many Vietnamese girls love American men.
I'm asian and I would gladly choose american and european products due to increased quality and great attention to customer preferences and detail. asian countries should do better and use western standards to benchmark so that they can improve. peace
Sutchi fillet u get in supermarket here is pangasius a type of catfish.
Dont be fool as Dory, as John Dory is a sea fish look totally difterent.
Yeah John Dory is the shape of Dory the blue forgetful fish. Much bigger.
Western: lets do gmo's
Asian: lets make our own fish food and
not rely on western
Western: that's cancerous
18:02 Basically besides US we have the rest of the market in the world
THE SAVAGE =))))))
😁😁😁
That expression is over-used.
Truth hurts.
There are so many fishes labeled wrongly in SG supermarkets, and selling at a much higher price. One very good example is Rainbow trout (it's same colour like the salmon inside but it has a milder taste, actually outwards apparence also resemble salmon) labeled and sold as Norwegian salmon. Maybe the team at NUS can check too.
Buy fresh fish from wet markets. They can't fool you when the fish has its head on.
That why most people go to wet market to buy instead of going to supermarket to buy
rainbow trout also salmon's family
"This is the dory fish" shows Blue Tang 😆 🤣 😂 😆
Salmon are raised in exactly the same way, but nobody hit's out against it. WHY?
Salmon are not bottom feeders. Catfish is.
Your right. Peru raised farmed salmon and it collapsed due to fish pen pollution etc. Salmon are not an indigenous species In Peru. Canada does And buries the health risk as its big export $$$$.
You can't get near a fish pen on British Columbia's
west coast to get a fish to analyze. So researchers watch for an eagle to grab a penned fish and test it. It's contaminated so they don't want it analyzed. However researchers watched eagles grabbing salmon from the pen. And found some eagles landed and tore off part of their catch and left the rest. They confirmed the salmon was in fact contaminated. Tested it against store bough fresh salmon and confirmed the contamination from more than 1 source in Pacific and Atlantic salmon.
I think Sweden does the same and farmed salmon goes to the EU. Fishery minister was fired after bringing the tainted fish problem to light.
As to the not being bottom feeders comment, this is a water quality problem from uneaten food and fish waste products in their pens causing or being the problem. Additionally manufactured fish food is part of the cause.
I'd eat USA farmed catfish or tilapia but that would be occasional these days. Consume Nothing from Asia farmed or supposibly Wild Caught !
Government interference as its a big $$$$$ industry.
@@jackiestowe6987 Yes, salmons arent bottom feeder but still, watch the documentary called Seaspiracy on netflix, you'd be gross out by the salmon agriculture
They should
It seems that those who did the story did not check the water where the fish is reared; they should have done so and show the result.
exactly, and test the flesh of the fish. They had that whole laboratory at their disposal. Guessing a lot of money for the program came from Vietnam fisheries.
lots of Farmed Fish or shrimps come from Indonesia, but we dont grow it inside the river that we used daily. We use waterponds and we have water treatment so it is sterile when the water that had been used are dumped. Lots of farmed fish are using nutrients, however, all the nutrients are half organics and half are produced. And all the nutrients are produced by big companies. I am just shocked in the narrative they use "Fish From Asia" while Asia have lots of countries and lots of Farmed Fish Varieties (Shrimps for example).
Setuju
I trust Indonesian and Malaysian seafood than Viet. I rather pay more even if viet product is cheaper.
Indonesian waters are highly polluted though
@@melalcantara4377 Depends on the area . For Shrimp farming, which are sensitive to bad water. It easy to die. so we need best quality of sea water to produce.
@@melalcantara4377 Indonesian water is vast.. there are deep water fish, lake and river fish... In fact, not only importing fish from Indonesia, but some countries also stealing fish from Indonesia... So, how dangerous is Indonesian water?
Stop politicizing and demeaning other countries products
its not demonizing, its just investigating what we are eating, same thing hapens in other coutnries just asians are the only ones complaining when they are seling piseness fish not wating theyr customers to know
i mean, the video is pretty unbiased hahaha, they interview people about how its totally fine almost exclusively for the first 20 minutes
People believe “Dory” is similar to expensive fish like Cod, grouper, or amberjack. No folks, Dory is a catfish, raised similar to shrimp in Vietnam. It isnt a pelagic fish that swim the pacific and are caught by boats.
Yup
Yeah.. catfish in asia is not a sea fish
All the while I thought dory was a fish that was superior to catfish .😂
It’s called Basa in English
I recall John Dory was the best table fish in the 70’s and 80’s and expensive. This Dory is not that Dory. I say never buy I fish without it’s head!
What?
It all comes down to consumer knowledge and consumer choice?
Then what's AVA for?
In malaysia we call this fish patin.we farm it ourselves.nice for cooking Patin tempoyak.maybe u should try
…No la..in Msia we called it ikan Duri..
Nothing is 100% safe.....eat in moderation and diversification of products we use or consume is the best option
D T correct
False, poison is poison. Eat lower on the food chain!
Rokupix Ruiqi so eating a teaspoon of arsenic a day is moderation....
That's answer, we can choose, but consumers have to be smarter.
It's labelled as Basa in Canada and I like it!
I like how we complain that everything is expensive these days yet when we come across something of a lower price we suspect it
Ever heard of they old saying "it's to good to be true"?
we don't suspect it because it is a lower price, clean your brain
Basa fillets with kalamatra olives is one of my favorite dishes.
we produce alot here in 🇲🇾... locally produce and quality checked.
Fish & Co restaurant & Long John Silver restaurant in Singapore has been lying to customers saying that their fish & chips are made of Dory(saltwater) fish when the Truth is they are Swai(pangasiidae/basa) fish from freshwater.
Saltwater fish is "John Dory". Not many people know that's its completely different from what's been marketed as "Dory". It's a made up name.
No different from salmon farming in Norway...both are not safe for consumption...eat at your own risk.
how do you know they are not safe for consumption?
Indeed. We need to be aware of the micro plastic and heavy mercury from the sea creatures
Yep ...well said, big cover up on salmon
@@WELLBRAN it's not covered up. They need to be sold with a health warning these days.
@@grahamt5924 fish...with a health warning?.... That'll work!
Another excellent episode.
While my mom can't eat any fish except dory 😂
so this is CNA version of a CBC: marketplace. they tested multiple seafood in canada and confronted the restaurants that sold mis-labelled seafood as expensive counterparts.
like they found multiple places replacing Lobster with langoustine... and when you tell customer Lobster, people think of the Boston Lobster.
Search Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare where the restaurant owner sold Norway Lobster as Boston lobster.
If this video is fair and true, there was a part missing here, that is how are the fish farms doing in the US or EU. Are they chemical-free?
They're discussing the Dory (pangasius), unless the US and EU are doing mass farming of Pangasius, then this video is being entirely fair.
thats how its done in europe ... ua-cam.com/video/ZXwKtlU304Y/v-deo.html
Not sure about fish but in USA, they wash their chicken in chlorine. They actually NEED to wash the chicken in chlorine.. one can judge for themselves the quality of the chicken meat and how they are produced.
@@sumwan3411 at least we know what we are eating ... even if its bad .. that doesnt hapen in some countries
@@markcasila8310 it's all about perspective, the video is shot by professionals to look beautiful, with calming music and scripts that portraits green and sustainable fishing.
i died when he showed "Dory" from Finding Nemo! HAHAHAHA
Lol. The Mississippi is one of the most polluted rivers period. Uh, catfish live in muddy waters
Us and being racist with smear campaign. Match made in heaven.
Oh btw, pangasius is a catfish, scaleless, catfish are carnivorous and also eat anything that is dead.
I have to watch this more seriously...coz i ate pangasius all the time, the packaging said that it was imported from vietnam, it taste like catfish but doesn't smell fishy at all, which was great for me
That's because catfish is freshwater fish, not ocean fish. Freshwater fish never smell fishy
I'm Vietnamese and the subtitles are really inaccurate in some parts of this documentary. It's really alarming
Could you give us timestamp and translation? Would be really helpful. Ty.
lol protect your own
Issue like this was also raised during the 1990's in the Philippines 'copra'(coconut oil). that it contains harmful fungi, that is harmful to human health. But fungi per se are generally beneficial to humans. One those that are colored white or black are harmful to humans because these are the converters in the food chain. It breaks down the compounds into reusable elements. It turns out that the brouhaha was about selling the palm oil and soybean oil to the food manufacturers. Those food products using those oils tastes awful after a day. Those cannot really replace coconut oil in food production.
If you want to know if the fish is beneficial or harmful just test it as soon as it arrive on your shores. Your countries may have that agency that does it. Rely on there findings. Do not rely on reporters and professors who are paid to do what their sponsors want!
the agencies are controlled by the money now too, can't trust them either
a documentary which lost its focus - pangasius's safety was left hanging as it moved on to talk about fish fraud???
The reason i dont eat imported fist like salmon, pangasius,dory or whatever. I prefer local fish, which catch fresh.
Another excellent documentary, thanks! Again, I appeal to you to please please organize your other documentary series into playlists so that it's easier for viewers to follow and watch the rest!
Hi xeenslayer! you can check out the entire Undercover Asia playlist here: ua-cam.com/play/PLbnMTcZEga8Qg2iAhT4Zyu4zjU-DYSiaB.html
And we're dropping 2 more episodes tonight, so look out for them!
And for more playlists, please check out the channel page!
It's called Pangasius in Singapore too. The fried fish thst hawkers use in Lor Mee and Fish Beehoon Soup is mostly Pangasius
I was a bit confused, as I know if it is Dory fish it is refer to John Dory the fish from the Sea and if it is Pagasus it is refer to THE CATFISH. Singapore need to get the label correctly.
Exactly. I'm Australian and I thought they were talking about John Dory. In Australia, catfish is sold as basa.
Is it sutchi fillet.?
Speaking as a chef, I worked for a massive endeavor in the US years ago. They would order this shit by the container full, direct from the producer( farmer). They even would ask what name we wanted on the case of filets. It would come in saying “grouper”
“Snapper”. And we would sell it as Grouper and Snapper. People ate the shit out of it. Be careful when visiting shitty restaurants along the coast, it happens all the time. Some states have outlawed it .
PS. I’m not proud of it. It wasn’t my call and I eventually left because of ethical concerns.
Greg Cekot
Can you expand more on which coast of US you're referring to? Company you worked for? How to know (besides visually) if a restaurant is one of these shitty restaurants you're referring to?
Thanks for speaking out. Consumers who has delicate tongue would k does the difference.
The consumption of such fish produced by these producers do no compare to the damage Agent Orange has done to the people of Vietnam
I just discovered that Dory is what Malaysian call ikan patin. Wow, I hate Dory (usually processed fillets), cooked in western style cooking. Ikan patin are usually sold freshly caught and cooked in flavourful broth. My mind is blown now lol
Last I heard, in the US, only the native US catfish species can be legally labeled for sale as catfish.
When you can longer compete, you..... just like edible oils. LOL
any farmed finish is the same... like the farmed Salmon from Europe
TBH, I've known pangasius as Cream Dory long before I became familiar with John Dory. The latter is not a common fish where I'm from. The name really meant nothing to people here but the rather generic white fish that always came as boneless skinless fillets. There's nothing unhealthy about them, they're just not very interesting to eat, IMO. Compared to tilapia, the most common alternative here, pangasius tend to be mushy when cooked and quite bland. But if they're providing so much livelihood to a country like Vietnam, there's nothing wrong with that. Like the video said towards the end, the Vietnamese farmers aren't the ones mislabeling the fish, and its a problem with several other fish species that get mislabelled.
A powerful demonstration of how powerful a documentary can be in creating and spreading lies & propaganda ...........
Don’t the US companies do the same hormone breeding thing for their Salmons?
Scaled fish are safe to eat - Written in the oldest instruction manual for humanity.
when you guys easily die from bee stings, but we asians aren't! You don't need to compare because you and asian have different ways of life.
I ate a piece of Bassa once and got sick. Fish used to be good for you, now it only is if you are an expert buyer.
I saw the german documentary couple years ago, i did stop buying pangasius since then. Now i dont know what to believe
Non-western companies: *success*
Western Companies: *oMaE Wa MoU ShInDEiRu*
This catfish farmers in America initially pushed for laws banning this catfish to be called catfish because they can't compete. Imagine that, a catfish can't be called a catfish.
No one is going to talk about the subtitles being all messed up? Who wrote them dam man.
im gonna admit it, Mekong river are cleaner than bigger river in Indonesia. We have a severe plastic issue and and industrial chemical waste..
I feel so lucky I'm in the Philippines. Fresh and uncontaminated sea food is always available in the market
Pangasius is more cheaper in the Philippines and the taste are not that good..most of the filipinos never eat pangasius
Every year, 200 thousand tons of industrial waste are dumped into the Mekong river! Guess who invented/sold this industrial waste??
Idiot. Nobody invents or sells industrial wastes
Another issue is, that half of pangas that is frozen contains more water than fish
Hello there!
Catfish can grow very huge if you give them time and space.
Catfish can grow bigger than the average person.
Catfish are bottom feeders and scavengers.
Om Mani Pad Me Hung!
ETN....
If you think pangasius is a hazard, you guys/girls should look at the norwegian salmon industry...
One thing is sure, that Vietnamese lady guide in a blue shirt is such a cutie.
Shrimp has so much antibotic in them too. My mom still eats their import fish but she dont buy it as much as before. She forgot the fish in the car for a month and it never rotten.
😮 the climate is hot or cold?
@@haslinjas1075 it was snowing...
jk it was summer. hot summer
In Temeloh Malaysia they have a good and best qualiti cat fish(ikan patin) in the world..
you can tell that the wisest person here is Prof. Simon Bush. Liked hearing to what he had to say here
Soon there won’t be enough fish left in the seas due to overfishing. Which countries have the largest fleets of factory ships, catching everything in their nets. Many to be thrown overboard, many also to be turn into... animal feed. Let’s not forget the tons of canned and frozen fish that will be disposed of when they can’t be sold come their expiry dates
what to do, these countries always bad mouth. They want cheap so come to asia lo. Now want the standards to be what they want but they dont want to invest the required infrastructure. So, Asia can do what? Get bullied lo.
@@chaoticlife311 asia should give them middle finger and stop buying their product. See who will collapse first.
A fee years ago i was in spain and everyone was shoked with the documentary and stopped eating Panga, I don’t know why but I thought the attack was too brutal. For me if a tv program spoon feeds me information like that i get suspicious of their intentions. It is never going to be for my own benefit that is for sure.
Very informative content but where is the lab result for Panga from Vietnam?
This is the same fish we find in rivers here, that people call "ikan patin". It's also grown here in cages in some of the larger rivers (on a much smaller scale than in Vietnam). You can find the fillets imported from Vietnam in the supermarkets, but all the best parts have been cut off (my theory is that the Vietnamese keep these parts for themselves, since they're the most delicious, and westerners wouldn't eat them). What are the best parts? When you buy the fresh fish from the market, the best parts are the fatty bits around the belly, right behind the head. It's sort of like how the fatty parts of the tuna and salmon (around the belly) are the most expensive cuts in sushi restaurants. If you go to Kuantan, they sell "ikan patin masak tempoyak" - you get slices of the whole fish, and the most popular slices are the head and the part right behind it.
It's almost everyday I'm disetting and filleting patin, I think it's different while patin is an oily/muddy fish, while sorry is less oily and bright white flesh fish, it's more flaky
It's the same species (or genus). The differences probably have to do with the environment and the feed, and also might have something to do with the preparation. I'm sure the Vietnamese remove the oily bits (which are the most delicious parts) since we don't get those when we buy dory fillets.
you lot would eat anything that moved
@@johnthedude1000 Definitely not true. We don't eat cats and dogs, or pork, for that matter. 🤣
I wouldn’t eat any fish that comes from a river that I wouldn’t go swimm
The place where fish swim is not important. Instead what it eats is what should be considered. In that case, we cannot eat prawns or shrimps, which eat rotting food. Isn't the world enjoying it? Why do the US government openly show their ignorance just to boost their fish sakes. Funny people!!
I've eaten Pangasius in various parts of Asia and the taste is so so (for me). It's a very delicate flavour, if you don't have highly astute taste buds you probably won't notice the taste and only feel the texture. The texture is also not as good as many other fish too.
Personally I feel this documentary is bias. I've been to the Mekong Delta and I've seen the conditions in which people treat it. If this water is being taking off to use for fish farming pools then you should stay well clear of any products made in it. This (and almost all south east asian rivers) are preposterously unhygienic and I would never intentionally eat anything grown in it.
Just as I wouldn't eat from The Ganges or the Chao Phraya River, I wouldn't put anything this polluted into my body. If there is so much crime, health issues and hygiene concern over this it's easier just to stop buying this stuff and force them to get their act together or face market drought.
Besides, there are way better alternatives for taste and nutrition. Also, I don't know why people freak out about horse in the UK, I've eaten horse in Asia (where it's not an issue) and it was really lean, tasty and high quality meat. Why are we forcing this industry to covert measures. it should be a respected industry of its own, why do we have to vilify an industry because you once saw black beauty or Mister Ed and have developed an opinion on their character.
Pigs are very friendly animals with a nurturing and loving side, which has made the ideal as pets recently. Still doesn't stop people guzzling them down. I think it's high time we stopped letting our opinions run things and listened to the (hopefully non-bias or paid for) evidence!
Am waiting a documentary like this to clear the air for palm oil, but alas, western oil producers are very rich.
Its safe, i trust our food agency
I am from Malaysia. I ate fish almost everyday. I am still alive though. Is it only for dory? I means I love catfish or ikan keli.
Dory is patin right?
@@nihazdamba Yes. It is known as ikan patin.
Patin tempoyak is good product from clean Pahang river
Cuba google..haha
I am in a related business .The only safe marine food are the one from CANADA . They have so much large parts of Ocean that do not need to go to Artificial Aqua Culture and have the most strict regulations and for Tuna the best is Persian Gulf .
US government has always been manipulative. Not anymore! Not today!
"Do you have proof?"
Was the nicest question I heard in the whole documentary.
Which country is having more health problems? Vietnam or US? I rest my case.
No one is talking about the harm we humans are doing to the rivers, seas and oceans😔😔
I eat Viet Basa in Australia it's fine and tasty 👌👌
I looked at Bangkok river when I was in Bangkok, it is so true that the color of the water is brown and yet the boat people are selling food on the boat. How dirty it is one can imagine.
Brown is still good. In Indonesia we have black water river and people fish there and eat the fish.
When your poor you cannot aford to be choosey. So price and not quality is all you look at. When your family are starving so no it is dangerouse? ???
I love the guy protecting the delta saying hes never seen any evidence the water is polluted. He is wanting to fight for the Asian fish market but wont go get a water sample him self. I wonder why that is, maybe so he can continue to say hes never saw proof of pollution.
When you order fish in a USA restaurant. Ask where the fish came from. By law they have to tell you.
Smart as comment from waitress: "the sea."
Ask her where the corn comes from (the farm). 😗🙃😉
I m in import seafood industry and I will tell you the FDA is very strict and they put a high standard to protect American. All food are tested and it will be hell for suppliers who felt the test