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Related: About this forumFive sustainable - and delicious - fish you should eat (LA Times)
Five sustainable - and delicious - fish you should eatBy Russ Parson
September 1, 2013, 8:00 a.m.
Sustainable seafood is one of the big buzzwords in food these days. And it is important: So many of our most popular fish are close to being overfished. The trick is expanding our palates, finding fish that we arent already loving to death.
But finding alternatives is daunting most of us didnt grow up with great markets, so the range of fish we know is limited. Still, there are great fish out there. So I put the question to a panel of seafood experts at Saturday mornings Field to Fork segment of the Taste: What one fish would you want to put in peoples hands that is both sustainable and delicious?
Lisa Hogan, a vice president of Santa Monica Seafood one of the leading seafood wholesalers on the West Coast chose Santa Barbara spot prawns. Theyre trapped off the Southern California coast and sold live from tanks. They are so sweet and so delicious, she said. I guarantee you that once you taste these, youll never go back to farmed tiger or white shrimp again. Theyre just amazing.
The Monterey Bay Aquariums Sheila Bowman, who manages their wildly successful Seafood Watch program, chose Pacific rockfish. If its line-caught, not netted, its sustainable, she said. And as far as Im concerned, its a fish that can do no wrong. Its so delicious.
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Five sustainable - and delicious - fish you should eat (LA Times) (Original Post)
pinto
Sep 2013
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LuvNewcastle
(16,856 posts)1. Good ideas, but I would also like to see some choices
for Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic fish. About the only time I see Pacific fish is in the frozen section at the market. It's an L.A. paper, though, so I can see why.
pinto
(106,886 posts)2. Yeah, the focus is LA / West Coast. Would like to see this posed in other areas.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)3. "The trick is ... finding fish that we aren’t already loving to death."
... and loving THEM to death, too.
Think farmed fish is "sustainable"? Think again.
All fish consumption is ecocide.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)4. The story did not mention
Alaskan pollock or crab, but those are sustainable species.
pscot
(21,024 posts)5. There used to be pacific rockfish in Puget Sound
Of course there used to be codfish too.