![]() The other thing is that other countries really are hip to seafood. That's half of the global average, so there's that. We only eat about 15 pounds of seafood per year per capita. They fill a similar fish niche, but they're very different. And in the other direction, we get a similarly white flaky fish - tilapia or pangasius - coming to us mostly from China and Vietnam. ![]() ![]() We use a lot of pollock ourselves, but we send 600 million pounds of it abroad every year. Alaska pollock is the thing in Filet-O-Fish sandwich it's the thing in that fake crab that you find in your California roll. Another great example of this fish swap is the swapping of Alaska pollock for tilapia and pangasius. So salmon for salmon, we're trading wild for farmed. We export millions of tons of wild, mostly Alaska salmon abroad and import mostly farmed salmon from abroad. In effect what we're doing is we're sending the really great, wild stuff that we harvest here on our shores abroad, and in exchange, we're importing farm stuff that, frankly, is of an increasingly dubious nature. ![]() What I think we're doing is we're low-grading our seafood supply. On what Greenberg calls "The Great Fish Swap" ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title American Catch Subtitle The Fight for Our Local Seafood Author Paul Greenberg ![]()
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