Captain Marden's Seafoods - Simply Fresh. Simply New England : Fun Fish Facts

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The largest fish is the whale shark, which can grow up to 50 feet long and weigh to up to 15 tons.
The smallest fish is the goby. It is about half an inch at adulthood.
The amount of fish harvested in the world is more than that of cattle, sheep, poultry or eggs.
Fish is the biggest source of wild or domestic protein in the world.
A group of herrings is called a siege.
The blue fin tuna is one of the largest and fastest marine fish. Adults may weigh 1500 pounds and swim up to 55 miles per hour.
The slowest fish is the seahorse which travels at 0.01 mph.
Some fish can swim backwards. They usually don't, though. Those that can are mostly members of one of the eel families.
The age of a fish can be determined by counting the number of "rings" on its scales, and/or ring-like structures found in the small bones of its inner ear. The rings correspond to seasonal changes in the environment and can be compared to the annual rings of tree trunks.
Lobsters’ blood is colorless. When exposed to oxygen, it develops a bluish color.
Tomalley is the lobster's liver and pancreas. It turns green when cooked and is considered a delicacy. The coral colored material is the egg mass of a female lobster. Cooking colors the tiny eggs a deep coral or red.
A lobster molts between 20 and 30 times before it reaches the one-pound market size.
You can tell by its tail whether a lobster was alive when it was cooked. After a lobster dies, the tail loses its elasticity and ability to curl under the body. When plunged into boiling water, a live lobster curls its tail under. It remains in that position during and after cooking.
There is so little salt in most commercially harvested fish that doctors recommend them in salt-free diets.
Sturgeons live to be 50 or more years old.
Fish are the largest group of vertebrates.
A soft shell crab and hard shell crab are the same species. A soft-shell crab is one that has just discarded its shell. Crabs that have just shed their shell hide in rocks or bury themselves in sand and mud to escape predators. They emerge after the new shell hardens, a quick process.
It is, indeed, safe to eat oysters during the months without R's. Fresh oysters properly refrigerated are wholesome and nutritious throughout the year. They spoil rapidly at high temperatures, however. The belief that oysters were unsafe to eat in May through August arose in earlier days when refrigeration was less prevalent than it is today.
The largest lobster ever caught weighed 37.4 pounds. The Massachusetts Lobstermen's association claimed a record when they caught "Big George" in 1974 off Cape Cod.
There are nearly 400 different varieties of scallops worldwide.
Only about a dozen, however, are harvested commercially.
The largest salmon ever caught was a Chinook salmon, caught with rod and reel in Alaska on May 17, 1985. The fish weighed over 97 pounds!
That according to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the most popular seafoods (as measured by per-capita consumption) in the United States are: shrimp, canned tuna, salmon, pollack, catfish, cod, crab, tilapia, clams, and scallops.

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