because I don't have a food blog

[trueandspurious]

Jim was going to cook wild Alaskan halibut for me tonight, one of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch's "best choices"

When it comes to eating fish responsibly there are two problems: the environment and fish quality.

The most well known example of fish quality is the mercury problem. Like last week when Burr told my dad to get Chilean Sea Bass

Comments

[lateniteslesley]

Interesting..I never knew about a lot of this. Lovely that LA really doesn't give a shit. Hopefully some hippie-er cities do? If only we looked into this in Oregon, but then again they had all of those salmon farms around. Hmm. Do you know if other coastal countries rely more on wild fish? Or do they all just farm it for the ease of it and the money-saving methods?

Albatrosses still exist? I thought that was a fun sea myth! The Rime of the Ancient Mariner led me on.

It's great you're conscious of this all, but not like it's enough when entire cities don't bother. There needs to be more PR on the subject, or more laws to help enforce promotion wild-caught fish, with minimal repercussions on other sea life. Having the USDA-certified organic stamp on packages really sparked an interesting consumer shift; not to say those products promise better health or improvement one way or the other, but consumers like to follow these kind of marketing ploys. Where's the wild-caught fish's marketing department, huh??

[trueandspurious]

Albatross totally exist! The Japan earthquake and subsequent tsunamis killed thousands of them! We are all doomed

[lateniteslesley]

You may know more about this...I sure as hell don't have a clue to this statement's credibility. But I heard recently that Lake Erie has some of the highest mercury levels of anywhere. Even if it's not true, I still feel pretty good about not enjoying perch or walleye.

[trueandspurious]

I did not know that. Though I hope I would have given it some thought before I tried Lake Erie fish...