6 shocking facts about seafood production

[countryboy]

I like sausage in the smoker. No jokes.

[Peter1469]

Some of that is very enlightening, the slavery, the waste. As for the catch methods this isn't about fair chase this is for food. Seven billion people have to eat and the vast majority of them never hunt, fish, gather or garden

Some American Indian tribes died out because they over fished....

[Chloe]

Some of that is very enlightening, the slavery, the waste. As for the catch methods this isn't about fair chase this is for food. Seven billion people have to eat and the vast majority of them never hunt, fish, gather or garden

when there is nothing left and when the oceans are so polluted and dead that it makes life unsustainable then what will 7 billion people eat?

[Peter1469]

when there is nothing left and when the oceans are so polluted and dead that it makes life unsustainable then what will 7 billion people eat?

Each other.

[Perianne]

when there is nothing left and when the oceans are so polluted and dead that it makes life unsustainable then what will 7 billion people eat?

Instead of getting their seafood from the ocean they will have to buy it at the grocery, like most people do.

[Peter1469]

Instead of getting their seafood from the ocean they will have to buy it at the grocery, like most people do.

[Bob]

Yes, factory fish farms produce an inferior quality fish.

I can taste the crap they feed farmed fish. Matter of fact, here in CA, the state puts farm fish into the lakes and reservoirs. Might as well fish for crap.

[Bob]

Farmed seafood does not taste like seafood...if you have only eaten shrimp in most large restaurants, you ain't had real shrimp. Unless you have eaten soft shell crab that has never been frozen...you have never tasted the best. The shrimp nets have TED's (turtle extruder devices which are just large holes in the nets to allow sea turtles and other large sea life to escape. Most of what is caught is eaten but there is some caught that the seagulls get.

The Gulf Coast fishing industry is the ultimate small business...most of them in this area are family owned and some have been in operation for over 100 years. The imported seafood is a real threat to small fisherman on the Gulf Coast. The industry is slowly recovering from the BP spill but that was the final straw for many family boats.

I have lived on the Gulf most of my life and expect to eat fresh seafood several times a week...in fact when my husband was offered a very good job in upstate New York I told him I would go but it sure would be expensive to ship Gulf seafood that far north. (He took a job in Tennessee....we could carry enough in an ice chest to last a couple of weeks)

http://www.eatalabamawildseafood.com/

A local man who is 95 and very experienced at fishing told me that CA dumps farm fish into the water the state has control over. I tried some trout from one of our lakes. They tasted to me like crap. I have tried farm fish from Costco. More crap.The wild fish was okay. I have decent luck with Smart and Final but due to the difficulty of getting decent fish, don't eat as much as i perhaps should. Funny that my doctor has not told me to eat a lot of fish. Nor the dietician.

(on the state farm fish. I noticed as well when up in the mountains, signs telling us the fish dumped into the lakes are farm fish)

[Chloe]

Instead of getting their seafood from the ocean they will have to buy it at the grocery, like most people do.

Im not sure if you are being serious or not. The grocery store does not create seafood, it comes from the sea. If fish and marine species are wiped out and if the oceans are too polluted or empty to sustain enough life then what exactly will be sold at the store?

[Perianne]

Im not sure if you are being serious or not. The grocery store does not create seafood, it comes from the sea. If fish and marine species are wiped out and if the oceans are too polluted or empty to sustain enough life then what exactly will be sold at the store?

I saw a thing on TV one time talking about the plight of small farmers. They interviewed someone who said "Who needs farmers? I get my stuff from the grocery store".