Americans are fighting a battle for their local seafood : TreeHugger
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Americans eat less than 15 pounds of seafood per person each year, which is very little compared to the 202 pounds of red meat and poultry consumed annually. This amount of seafood is dismally small when you consider that the United States owns 94,000 miles of coastline and half its population lives within 10 miles of the coast. Despite Americans’ proximity to a domestic source of wild, nutritious seafood, a shocking 91 percent of the seafood that does get consumed is imported from aquaculture farms, mostly based in Asia. At the same time, a third of all U.S.-caught seafood is exported to foreign countries.
The situation defies logic. Seafood has become a global commodity that, due to improvements in processing and freezing, can travel around the planet without having any real connection to a specific region. American consumers have lost touch with specialty items, preferring the generic breeds and less fishy-tasting products that come out of Asian seafood farms.
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