Apparently the food I ate at the chippy last week wasn’t what I thought it was. Turns out it was shark meat! Ooops. Darn good shark meat though.
Since "spiny dogfish shark" is not the most appetizing name, in
recent years fishmongers have given it other names in hopes of
appealing to consumers. In France it is sold as small salmon. Belgians
know it as sea eel. Germans smoke the meat and call it Schillerlocken.
It is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries, particularly
the U.K., as rock salmon, one of the most common fish in "fish and
chips" shops.
"Since everything is fried, fish and chips can be almost anything," TRAFFIC program associate Jill Hepp told Discovery News.
Hepp said restaurant demand for "rock salmon" has devastated the
shark’s population off the coasts of Britain and France, where "the
spiny dogifsh is widely considered to be critically endangered."
Vendors now often look to the United States for catches. The sharks are
fished from around the mid-Atlantic states to the coast of
Massachusetts. Story
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