Some seafood market managers will never see the entire sustainability picture, because profits will be affected if they choose to do the right thing. This is part of an article that I am writing may piss off fish market managers who use depletion as a price driving tool. This will really set the picture straight about Rockfish. Many species of endangered fish are sold as rockfish. Rockfish is a very loosely defined term. ::::: "..... Ikan Bilis is a Malaysian style sun dried anchovy. Sun dried anchovies are called Iriko in Japan. Sun dried anchovies are not salty and the fishy aroma is fairly tame. Crispy fried sun dried anchovies are a popular snack in the South Pacific region. Fried sun dried anchovies actually have a "plain deep fried chicken wing" kind of flavor. Many farm raised salt water fish, like farm raised sea bass, are fed sun dried anchovy meal. Anchovy depletion is causing a chain reaction in the ecosystem that affects the populations of rockfish, idiot fish, snapper and many other small predator fish. Why feed one fish the food that several other fish species depend upon? Why eat sea bass at all? Why not eat sun dried anchovies instead! Sea bass require tons of sun dried anchovies, because so much is wasted. Much of the anchovy fish meal floats away. A portion for a human being is just a few ounces and there is no wasted excess that floats away. By not demanding sea bass and by eating sun dried anchovies instead, an entire ecosystem of fish will increase in numbers. Snapper and idiot fish are currently endangered or are very low in numbers. Rockfish are currently being overfished to the point where depletion is surely going to occur. Rockfish is a very loosely defined species name and endangered idiot fish or snapper are often sold as rockfish in dubious fish markets. Pretending that every fish that is sold under the name "Rock Fish" is okay to eat, is like turning one blind eye to the overall seafood sustainability problem. Pretending that seafood stock depletion is not a problem is basically a form of defending gluttony."
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 04:17:32 +0000
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