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Originally Posted by Sightwindow
MG, what's your theory on why there isn't a market for sail cats? They're not bad eating, easier to clean than most, readily available and everybody knows the name catfish. The yield isn't great, but neither is sheepsheads and drumMost rookies I fish with ask about even a hardhead being good to eat when I'm loosing them back into the water.
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There is a small market, but prices are usually too low to justify the effort and expense of transporting them from the boat to the buyers.
The guys who run trot lines for black drum catch a lot of them. Black drum has a stable market (mostly as imitation crab) that is strong enough to cover the transportation costs of a highly perishable product.
I'm not sure how much restaurant catfish might be gafftops, but the supply of gafftops seems to outstrip the demand.