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Originally Posted by jatx
Take a look...many of the fish currently marketed heavily in your corner grocery store were not so popular 20 years ago. I.e., orange roughy, rockfish, sea bass, etc. The technology and scale of commercial fisheries today is staggering - fishing fleets now have the ability to "clear cut" the ocean in places, and that is exactly what they are doing to satisfy demand.
Not so big a deal when you are talking about an easily renewable resource, but some of the fish we enjoy today have reproductive cycles measured in decades.
I am doing my part by purchasing only farm-raised fish.
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Good to hear Jatx, but be careful on the farm-raised fish, depending on where it's farmed it may or may not be particularly sustainable, specifically nearly all fish farmed in Asia has very negative environmental effects due to the way they farm there, specifically the waste that is produced and the ecosystems that are destroyed to build fish farms, they are doing some pretty bad damage to their local waters via fish farming in much of Asia which in turn hurts the local wild fish populations.
If it's farmed here in the US you have a pretty good chance that's it's going to be sustainable.
Currently there is a tremendous demand for fish and cheep fish at that, both here in the US and in Asia especially, which is leading to substantial pressure on fish populations, if you can buy local, if you can't buy local i.e. too far from the coast try to buy US caught, as I said before we have some of the best managed fisheries in the world.
Also if anyone needs more info on specific species of fish to know if it's sustainable please feel free to shoot me a message, a part of my wife's job is to help educate the public and if this is another venue to do that I'm happy to help.
Just FYI one species Jatx mentioned that I can guarantee is not sustainable is Orange Rughy, not only because of the demand for it but more importantly because it takes 20-30 years to reach sexual maturity and are caught with trawl nets in deep water which means they are clear cut and since they are deep water fish anything that is brought up likely won't survive even if it's to small to keep and thrown back overboard.